It's about to get easier to get healthier.
You'll still have to put one foot in front of the other, but you won't be alone. And you'll have more information on how to live a more healthful life than you'll know what to do with.
Residents of Douglas County are being invited to connect with "Get Moving, Eat Right and Stay Healthy."
The program is as simple as its name.
It's not about training for a 5-K run or the Sunflower Games. We won't ask you to replace your dining room tables with weight benches. It's about levitating ourselves out of our La-Z-Boys and getting off our couches before our couches get us.
It's also about cutting back on the mountains of sugar and fatty foods we consume.
Here's how "Get Moving" will work.
- Fill out the brief form in next Sunday's Journal-World identifying your goal. Examples: losing weight, lowering your blood pressure, reducing your cholesterol or being able to walk a mile in 30 minutes. You name it. If your goal is a secret, don't tell us.
- Form teams. Get co-workers or neighbors together and set a goal -- maybe four people losing 20 pounds collectively. Perhaps you want to lower your blood pressure by 10 percent. Get some partners to take lunch-hour or early-morning walks with the goal of walking faster or further. Challenge other teams.
- Set individual goals to spend less time in our easy chairs and more time improving our eating habits.
- The Journal-World will publish a list of all participants (unless otherwise requested) and teams involved in "Get Moving" on a monthly basis. Success stories will be published and televised on Sunflower Cable 6.
More details will appear in next Sunday's Journal-World.
"Get Moving" is sponsored by the Douglas County Community Health Improvement Project, the Journal-World, Sunflower Cablevision and lawrence.com.
-- Bill Snead's phone message number is 832-7196. His e-mail address is bsnead@ljworld.com.
GET MOVING An introductory meeting will be Oct. 19 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Information packets will be available; there will be confidential weigh-ins and some testing. Monthly meetings/rallies are scheduled for the next six months. See next Sunday's Journal-World for more information. |
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