Healthy Victories August 2022

Celebrate Healthy Victories!

Champions for Change are real people just like you. Champions make good health a priority for themselves and their families by making small changes in their diet and daily physical activity. Visit Del Norte CalFresh Healthy Living website and learn more about nutrition and physical activity resources and healthful tips. Let's celebrate healthy victories that lead your families healthier and happier!

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Fall Prevention Workshop

Last month, we offered a fall prevention virtual workshop series via zoom. Ken Dobberpuhl, Champion for Change, a fitness instructor, shared life-saving tips and step-by step demonstrations for preventing a fall and building a fall resistance body at home! It was a great workshop series. Thank you so much to those who attended and engaged actively with us via zoom! Thank you, Ken, for sharing the training strategies, professional tips and encouragement to build a fall resistance body at home. We appreciate your time and participation!

Please watch Ken's demonstration videos including Functional Movements and Fall Prevention from our website, CalFresh Healthy Living and practice these functional movements that can help you prevent a fall and build a fall resistance body!

Fall Prevention Introduction

Building a Fall Resistance Body Part 1

Building a Fall Resistance Body

Part 2

The Waste Less Kitchen-

Food Waste Reduction Virtual workshop series

Reducing food waste is a triple win: it's good for the economy, communities, and the environment. Food waste refers to food such as plate waste, spoiled food, or peels and rinds considered inedible that is sent to feed animals, to be composed or anaerobically digested, or to be landfilled or combusted with energy recovery.¹ According to the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2018 in the United States, more food reached landfills and combustion facilities than any other single material in our everyday trash, at 24% of the amount landfilled and 22 % of the amount combusted with energy recovery. EPA encourages anyone managing wasted food to reference the Food Recovery Hierarchy.¹

Last month in July, we offered a food waste reduction workshop series via zoom and live-streamed through Facebook. A Champion for Change, Walter Campos, joined us and led the three-part workshop series. The workshop series covered evidence-based food waste reduction strategies from the Food Smart, Food Waste Reduction curriculum and practical tips to minimize food waste from your kitchen. We also offered cooking demonstrations on various food preservation, freezing, blanching, and Lacto-fermentation, featuring the Kimchi recipe. You can watch the recordings from our Facebook Champions for Change in Crescent City Check out the UCCE Master Food Preserver program for Humboldt and Del Norte Counties on different methods of food preservation. They also offer virtual demonstrations every 3rd Thursday of the month.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sustainable Management of Food Basics. https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/sustainable-management-food-basics

The Food Recovery Hierarchy prioritizes actions organizations can take to prevent and divert wasted food. Each tier of the Food Recovery Hierarchy focuses on different management strategies for your wasted food.

Click Food Recovery Hierarchy to learn more about the tiers of the hierarchy.

Vegetable Gardening Workshop

Dar Caldwell on the left; Kids Garden Designer and Manager

Terry Allaway on the right: Certified Permaculture Design Consultant, UC Master Gardener, Botanist

Garden Coalition presented a "Vegetable Gardening Workshop on July 16, 2022 at the Open Door Community Health Center Garden. Terry and Dar shared their wealth of gardening knowledge and practical tips on vegetable gardening at home. Thank you to those who attended the workshop and the collaborative efforts by the Garden Coalition.

For more vegetable gardening information and resources, please visit the UC Master Gardeners of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties website. You also submit your gardening questions to the Help Desk-Ask A Master Gardener.

This month, Garden Coalition will present the Fall Gardening workshop-Saturday, August 20, from 10 am-11:30 am at the Open Door Community.

Farmers Market Event

Nutrition Across the Lifespan

This summer, we are offering a health promotion event at the Downtown Farmers Market from June to August every Wednesday from 10 am-1 pm, partnered with the Del Norte County Public Health programs, with a theme "Nutrition Across the Lifespan".

One of the key activities the CalFresh Healthy Living program provided was Rethink Your Drink/hydration with Water promotion through flavor water taste testing and a fun smoothie bike activity, a human-powered bike blender.

Rethink Your Drink campaign is to increase awareness of added sugar in drinks, decrease consumption of sweetened drinks, and increase consumption of healthy drink options; water, non-fat or low-fat milk, and 100% fruit juice in limited amounts. Nutrient-dense beverages can promote good nutrition and help build healthy eating patterns. Water is vital for your health and is the best option for rethinking your drink and keeping the body hydrated; switching to drinking water instead of sugary beverages is not flavorless. You can add fruits, vegetables, and even herbs to give it added flavor.

For more information on Rethink Your Drink campaign resources, Please check Rethink Your Drink Day Resources

Ideas for Flavor Water Combinations;

Cucumber, lemon, and mint
Orange and kiwi
Strawberries and basil
Orange and pineapple
Lemon and mint
Orange and vanilla bean

Champion for Change, Sierra Smith, helped us make bike-powered watermelon smoothies, taste testing a beet and apple salad, and infused water testing with lemon balm and cucumber and jump roping at the farmers' market event on June 22, 2022.

Del Norte County Public Health Program Staff from top to bottom;

Bonnie Brinegar, Jaime Gormly, Colleen Machado, and Crystal Yang

Del Norte County WIC Program Staff Cristina Mendoza joined us, demonstrating a creative, healthy snack using seasonal fruits, peanut butter, and whole wheat crackers and how to incorporate WIC foods from the farmers market into healthy snacks.

Coastal Connections, Youth Resources Center staff, Caroline Salas, provided fun games and activities that encourage nutrition and physical activities for overall health lifestyle promotion including mental health. Healthy nutrition for youth is a way to heal and nourish themselves.

During June and July 2022, Del Norte County Public Health Programs joined us for the Farmers' Market event. They represent Covid-19 and other infectious disease prevention, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP), Oral Health Program, Mother, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Program, and Tobacco Use Prevention Program (TUPP), WIC Program, and Coastal Connections. They provided education and resources, including Covid-19 home test kits, children's books and coloring books, immunization information and more, addressing nutrition as one of the key messages for disease prevention and health promotion.

Please join us for fun and healthful activities for all ages in August at the Downtown Farmers Market on every Wednesdays from 10 am-1 pm. CalFresh Healthy Living Program will be offering Rethink Your Drink Day event at the Crescent City Farmers Market at the Crescent City harbor on Saturday, August 13th from 10 am -1 pm.

Join in the movement for a healthy change! You also can be a Champion for Change. Please nominate yourself or others who would like to become a Champion for Change and share your healthy victories with others! Let's make positive and healthy changes together!

Email to Sunny Baker, sbaker@co.del-norte.ca.us

Contact, 707-464-3191 X 2830

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