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LeAnn Linder <br />Lifestyle Health Director <br />New Brighton and Mounds View Park and Recreatiron <br />633-8906 784-3055 <br />LIFESTYLE HEALTH PROGRAM <br />Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is as important as getting help whets <br />you are sick. Your lifestyle is you, what you think, feel, do, eat, <br />drink and breathe. <br />Today, almost 70 percent of all deaths in Minnesota are caused by <br />heart disease, stroke and cancer, reports the Minnesota Health <br />Department, 1983. The "good news" is we can now identify personal <br />risk factors and reduce or prevent most diseases through improved <br />health and fitness habits. Informed persons help themselves stay well <br />by the kinds of decisions they make daily. Lifestyle programs are <br />education and activity sessions that promote personal responsibility <br />one takes for their health, and encourage behavorial changes that <br />reduce the risk of illness or injury and studies indicate strong <br />benefits of lifestyle health programs. Individuals feel better <br />physically, and mentally. They believe their capacity to work is <br />enhances and they are more able to relax, become ill much less, report <br />improved family relationships and esteem. And most of all, people <br />believe the education and activities to be fun. <br />An- objective of the program is educational and awareness programs that <br />contribute to and support fitness activities. We encourage a balanced <br />lifestyle, offering a wide variety of activity with sustained <br />rositive changes as a goal. Four phases generally support the <br />wellness concept. <br />1. Personal health assessment. <br />2. Educational classes. <br />3. Fitness and acivities. <br />4. Goal setting, motiviation, maintenance. <br />The Mounds View and New Brighton Lifestyle Health and Fitness program <br />encompasses these five areas: <br />... Fitness and Activities <br />... Nutrition and Weight Control <br />... Stress Management <br />... Personal Skills/Healthy Relationships <br />... Amoking/Alcohol and Drugs <br />A complete offering of courses will be available in December. <br />Programs begin January, 1984 and will offer such classes as: Fitness <br />for Families, Aerobic Dance, Aqua Exercise for Seniors, Swim and Stay <br />Fit, Stop Smoking, Stress Management, Time Management, Healthy Eating <br />Habits, Successful Weight Control. <br />