The Big ED Health Team presented by EdVenture Children’s Museum

So you want your family to be healthy but think you don’t have time to eat right AND exercise?  EdVenture Children’s Museum has the EASY answer for you – The Big ED Health Team.  For seven months, your family can participate in a variety of programs that keep you active, let you have fun and teach you how to introduce healthy food into your diet.  Climb a rock wall, learn to swing like an acrobat and try cooking together as a family.  The Big ED Health Team will get you moving in the right direction in 2009.

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Healthy Palmetto is a collaboration among Palmetto Health and community partners to encourage healthy weight, good nutrition, and physical activity. Healthy Palmetto provides several programs to Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Pickens counties, and surrounding areas residents.

• The Healthy Palmetto Walking Club is a free incentive-based walking program that provides pedometer and incentives for reaching goals.
• The “Fit.Together” is a program that offers health education classes focusing on diabetes, good nutrition and physical activity for fifth-grade students.
• Healthy Palmetto is WE CAN! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activities & Nutrition) site that teaches parents how to help their families live a healthier lifestyle through better nutrition and physical activity.
• Healthy Campus is a program that offers health education classes focusing on diabetes, nutrition, high blood pressure, and physical activity for college freshmen at participating schools

The Health Palmetto Website provides information on good nutrition, physical activity, and upcoming events.

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Diabetes 101

The SC DHEC Diabetes 101 presentation as designed to create a uniformed diabetes awareness education tool to be used in the community. It is a 1.5 to 2 hour community presentation, designed to target the general adult population, which includes:

• People with Type 2 diabetes
• People at risk for diabetes
• Caretakers of people with diabetes
• People who want to gain information on diabetes

Information included in the presentation is based on the American Diabetes Association (ADA) clinical recommendations and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) 7 Self- Care Professional Resource. Participants with Type 2 diabetes are encouraged to attend Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME) programs for information and assistance with self-management skills.

For more information contact:

Barbara Wright Downs
SC DHEC/DPCP
1800 St. Julian Place
Columbia SC 29204
803-545-4475

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