Start! Eating Healthy Day is a day that signifies the dedication of the American Heart Association and its Start! initiative to the health of all Americans. Through Start! Eating Healthy Day, the American Heart Association strives to increased awareness of the importance of good nutrition; provided education, tools and resources to individuals and companies across the country, and raise funds to help in the fight against heart disease and stroke.
How can you participate in Start! Eating Healthy Day?
1. Start by spreading the word. Send emails to your friends and family from your Greater Portland Start! Heart & Stroke Walk website. We have added a Start! Eating Healthy Day email template that provides tips and tools for healthy eating and encourages your contacts to help support the fight against heart disease and stroke.
2. Start! Eating Healthy! Download a Start! Holiday Healthy Eating Guide. This guide features flavorful, healthy holiday recipes, tips on how to stay healthy while at work and information on all of Start!’s great healthy living tools.
3. Start! sharing the message - add a Nutrition Widget to your website, blog or social networking page to share tips on eating healthy with all your friends and family. Nutrition Widgets are interactive tools that provide healthy eating tips and links to other American Heart Association nutrition resources. These tools can be easily added to your office intranet pages, personal websites and blogs or to social networking sites such as MySpace.
4. Start learning more. Visit www.startwalkingnow.org and click on resources to find more tips and tools on eating well.
The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary health organization working to prevent, treat and defeat heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, the nation's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, claim more than 865,000 American lives a year. Thank you to all our walkers, donors and volunteers who have accepted the challenge to help fight heart disease and stroke. We cannot achieve our mission without each one of you!
For more information please contact one of your Start! Heart Walk staff partners at (303)996-8731 or via email at denverheartwalk@heart.org
