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  • Motivating Teachers to Create Healthier Classrooms

    Tue, 09/07/2010 - 9:13am — laiken
    AHA strongly believes that teachers have a unique opportunity to shape the health and wellness of their students. This is one of the driving factors in our plan to create the Health Teachers, Healthy Schools Initiative here in Wake County. Healthy Teachers, Healthy Schools will provide teachers with continuing education credits through a learning network that capitalizes on their passion for creating a healthier school environment. Too often, we place all of the blame on school cafeterias for obesity and poor nutrition. Child nutrition services plays a vital role and certainly has room to improve when it comes to providing healthier meals, but parents, teachers, and our community share in this responsibility.

  • GRAPES!

    Tue, 08/31/2010 - 12:48pm — laiken
    I never thought a bag of grapes could make me so happy. As many of you know, AHA has been working to promote the Sports Snack Game Plan. The plan is a movement to promote healthy snacking after sports games across Wake County and beyond. As someone who deeply believes in the AHA mission, I make every effort I possibly can to create a healthy environment. The sports snack game plan is a great tool to help change our culture of cookies and sports drinks after practice.
    For two years I have been trying to work with my daughter’s soccer team to adopt the plan. I have honestly had moms laugh in my face when I have suggested fruit as a snack. Last year, I took the time to cut watermelon on a particularly hot day, and a couple of kids would not even eat it! I feel badly for my daughter when everyone frowns at her snack and asks where to find the cookies.

  • Put the Excitement back in Exercise: Climb, Jump and Crawl Your Way to Better Fitness

    Wed, 08/25/2010 - 1:35pm — laiken

    This month's guest blog is brought to you by Be Active NC!

    Has your exercise routine gotten, well, routine? Don’t let your reps get repetitious! Boring exercise routines are not just monotonous—they are a signal that your workout isn't working for you anymore.

    By the time your mind is bored, your body is already bored and your fitness improvement is likely to plateau. Your body quickly acclimates to new levels of exertion, so what was once a challenging fitness routine soon becomes easy, which means you are probably not getting the results you want.

  • Calling All Health Care Professionals!

    Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:42pm — laiken

    Advocates for Health in Action and Community Care of Wake and Johnston Counties were selected by the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), to train health care providers to become advocates and change agents within their community to help reverse the trend of childhood obesity. 

    Your time outside the office is limited, and we respect that. This project requires a modest commitment but yields meaningful results. You can expect to leave the training as an activated advocate in your community. We are looking for passionate, interested and engaged professionals including physicians, nurses, dieticians, physical therapists, dentists, pharmacists, board certified athletic trainers, and exercise physiologists to:

    ATTEND THE ADVOCACY TRAINING

  • Buy Local Food at least 10% of the time!

    Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:42pm — laiken

    The 10% campaign is an effort to encourage North Carolina consumers to spend 10 percent of their food dollars on foods from local sources. Through the campaign website – www.nc10percent.com  -- consumers and business will pledge to spend 10 percent of their food dollars locally, purchasing products from area farmers and food producers. Campaign participants will receive weekly email reminders to report how much money they spent on local food. The website will show consumers how their dollars spent on local foods grow.

    North Carolinians spend about $35 billion a year on food. If each person spent just 10 percent on food locally – roughly $1.05 per day – then
    approximately $3.5 billion would be available in the state’s economy. The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) and Cooperative

  • Farmer's Markets in Wake County

    Sat, 07/17/2010 - 6:45am — laiken

    If you have been following our blog or know much about our organization, you likely know that access to healthy, local food is very important to us. AHA believes that farmer's markets are one of the best ways for our communiity to eat better, and we are doing all that we can to promote them. We are excited about new programs that are popping up in our community like the Western Wake Farmer's Market accepting EBT and Tim Martin's idea of creating a local food center.

  • Barefoot Runner Matt Jenkins is Running 760 Miles across NC!

    Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:44am — jamickens

    Barefoot Runner Matt Jenkins is Running 760 Miles across NC to help raise money for We Run Forward.  

  • San Diego Update

    Wed, 07/14/2010 - 12:48pm — bmack

    As you may know, the 4-H mapping group is out in San Diego presenting their project. They wanted to share their experiences with us so here are some more of their stories...

  • GIS Mappers Head to San Diego!!

    Mon, 07/12/2010 - 2:22pm — laiken

    As many of your know, AHA has been working with our local 4-H on mapping access points to food and physical activity in Wake County. The group was recently invited to San Diego to present at an INTERNATIONAL conference on GIS! Check our blog over the next several days to follow ther progress of their trip!

    7-9-10 (Friday)

  • Tomatillos

    Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:38am — jamickens

    While working for AHA at the Downtown Raleigh’s Farmer's Market a few weeks ago, I was on the hunt for another unusual fruit or veggie that I could blog about and make a delicious recipe.  I visited Cloverfield Farm booth and meet Brian, one of the owner’s of this farm located in Timberlake, NC.  He had lots of produce to choose from but the one that caught my eye were the beautiful, papery, green tomatillos.  They were a great price at $1.25 per pound and I’ve never cooked with them before so I decided that’s what I wanted to buy.  Brian was very friendly and had tons of great, fresh produce to purchase, so make sure to visit Cloverfield Farms next time you’re at the Downtown Raleigh Farmer’s Market.

    So What Are They?

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