Week 4

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles at Home, School and in the Workplace.

Welcome to WEEK FOUR of the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge!
It’s about building healthy lifestyle habits that will last a lifetime.

Email your Week 3 tracking sheet by midnight to: Here’s my tracking sheet (Don’t forget to attach your tracking sheet) Our top score each week earns 3 free raffle tickets, our 2^nd through 10^th winners earn 2 tickets and all participants with 200 or more points for the week receive 1 ticket.
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The best way to get enough vitamins is to eat a balanced diet with a variety of foods. In some cases, you may need to take a daily multivitamin for optimal health. It is important for consumers to have an overall strategy for how they will achieve adequate vitamin intakes. An important point made in the guidelines is that “nutrient supplements are not a substitute for a healthful diet”.

If you are reading this communication, give yourself the 5 Wellness Education Points. If you answer the bonus question and type it on your tracking sheet, give yourself the additional 5 points for the bonus question. THIS WEEKS BONUS QUESTION: Vitamin E is an antioxidant, which is a nutrient that helps fight damage to the cells in the body. Name 3 good food sources of vitamin E? View the following document to find the answer: Vitamins and Minerals: How to Get What You Need

Before you decide to take a supplement, ask yourself:
1. Do I need this supplement?
2. Do I know that this supplement is safe?
3. Does the supplement interact with any drug or food I am consuming?
4. Do I know this supplement works?
*You should always consult your personal physician.

Put Healthy Happy Hour on your calendar:
Join your fellow Healthy Lifestyle Challenge participants at the first Healthy Happy Hour! Earn your BONUS activity points on Monday, November 21^st from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Historic Oakland in Columbia, Maryland. Don’t miss our inaugural Healthy Happy Hour! (Click here for the flyer)

Here's another option to earn your BONUS activity points:
Join the Free Circuit Training in the Park every Saturday

Eat healthy and get active!
brian@wepromotehealth.org

Something extra: Dr. John Whyte explains how to learn whether you should take vitamins or supplements. Learn more about vitamins and nutrition in this video by Discovery Health.

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