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Have a Happy, Healthy New Year
what we learned about health, fitness, and connecting in 2018
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January Partner Spotlight
Community Learning Centers
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CLCs Partner to
Nurture Families
The Community Learning Centers, Family Service, and Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln have come together to offer a wellness program that works to help adults and families live longer, healthier lives through good nutrition and increased fitness.
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The Nurture Family Program
focuses on low-income families with children at high risk for nutritional and health problems, working collaboratively to enhance nutrition and wellness
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Read more.
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Then check out how Woods partners with several non-profits to take tennis out to kids in every part of the city through their
youth programs.
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Looking for a fun and different way to get active? Check out
Kayak Polo in this new Get Up and Go video.
Find a comprehensive calendar of health, wellness, and fitness events in Lincoln on the LNKTV Health Calendar.
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Shopping at Fresh Thyme provides us with
A Bag of Support in January
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The Fresh Thyme store located at 5220 O St has chosen Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln as a beneficiary of the Fresh Thyme Giving Bag Program for the month of January!
Simply buy the Giving Bag with the Giving Tag and we will receive a $1 donation. This is a great opportunity to support our initiatives simply through the sale of a reusable shopping bag!
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What did we learn?
2018 - the Year in Health, Fitness
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JUST MOVE - The mantra, "sitting is the new smoking" really should be "inactivity is the new smoking". It's not the amount of sitting that matters so much, but the lack of physical activity. Sitting all day isn't great for you, but fitness is what's important and there are three elements of physical fitness that are key:
1) Cumulative activity - the number of steps you take each day and not sitting too much. This is what burns calories and helps you maintain a healthy weight and build strong bones.
2) Intensity of activity and strength training build up cardiac and muscle reserve. This is what helps you survive a heart attack, serious illness, and injury.
3) Duration at a sustained pace, 20-30 minutes at a time, moves from burning energy stores in your muscles to mobilizing fat storage. This prevents things like metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
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FITNESS SHOULDN'T BE PUNISHMENT - If you love going to the gym, lucky you. A lot of people think of "working out" as punishment because they just don't enjoy it, so they can't stick with it. The key to staying fit is to find the activities that you like doing and they don't have to be traditional. Dancing, for instance, has been found to not only help build physical fitness in older women, but reduce depression, as well.
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IT'S QUALITY OF LIFE, NOT QUANTITY -
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he goal isn't just a long life, especially if it means years of disability at the end. The goal is "Healthy Life Expectancy" or "Squaring the Curve" where you stay in good physical shape so you can maintain your independence and health as long as possible. World Health Organization (WHO) reports now are starting to focus more on "HALE" or healthy life expectancy at birth to rank the health of countries.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF PHYS. ED. AND THE POWER OF PLAY - Kids need both 150 minutes a week of physical education and unstructured play to be physically and mentally healthy. Physically fit kids do better academically, and physical education teaches them the skills to be healthy for life. Unstructured play helps kids learn to problem solve and make social connections.
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REFINED SUGAR AND PROCESSED FOODS are just bad for you. Sugar, especially in the beverages we drink like regular soda, energy and sports drinks is fueling the obesity crisis, far more than fat. Too much fruit juice isn't much better as it can contain the equivalent of up to 4 whole fruits without the fiber.
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DISCONNECT TO CONNECT -
Loneliness and depression have become major health issues, fueled in part by the overuse of screens and smart phone addiction that can isolate people. Over time, loneliness weakens the immune system, making it less able to fight disease. Check the link below to our latest Health and the City column for more.
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Health and the City
For good health, disconnect to connect
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Did you catch our latest Health and the City column in the Lincoln Journal Star on Saturday Dec. 29? Do you know how loneliness affects health? A contributing factor is our overuse of social media screen time that is substituting for a real connection to others. How can turning off our smart phones at dinner time and taking a brisk walk with a smile on your face make a difference? Read and find out.
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln (PHL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, wellness, and fitness of our community. We collaborate with other organizations on joint projects to improve health by increasing physical fitness, promoting good nutrition, supporting breastfeeding, and working with healthcare providers to increase vaccination and cancer screening rates, and improve chronic disease management.
Our work includes improving health and wellness policies, conducting community level research, and evaluation of the success of local health initiatives.
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