Walk or Run With the Doc Saturday April 22nd, 8:00 am Local Student Draws Attention to #1 Health Care Need Nisha, a local high school sophomore, decided it was time to draw attention to America’ s number one health care need. To accomplish this goal, Nisha has organized a local 4k walk/run event for Saturday, April 22nd. Nisha’s goal is to raise community awareness about the effects of weight gain on health and to promote running and walking as a safe, positive and affordable means for improving physical condition. As Nisha observes, more than two-thirds of adults are overweight. And, among youth, weight gain is happening at ever earlier ages with weight alarmingly higher than a generation ago. As Nisha sees it, a combination of poor diet and inactivity have become threats to the health in our country with millions of Americans at increased risk for chronic diseases. With ever rising health care cost from these chronic diseases, American businesses are increasingly placed at a competitive disadvantage. Can we look forward to Nisha becoming a future health care leader that helps solve our nation’s health care needs? Let’s hope we can. Our youth are the hope for the future. We will need many like Nisha to take on this challenge. Nisha’s hobbies include running and school studies. While school studies might seem an unusual hobby, Nisha enjoys school and hopes her studies will lead to a career in medicine. With family living in both Spain and India, Nisha also considers travel a hobby. Nisha’s interest in health care was in part influenced by experiences shared by her father from his medical practice in bariatric surgery. If you’re looking for a Saturday morning outing, what better way to meet the day than a 4K walk/run for community awareness? Let’s join Nisha Saturday morning and thank her for reminding us of what we need to do. Nancy Neighbors, MD PS. For this Saturday, we will meet at the 4-Way Stop near Buffalo Wild Wings in the Jones Valley/Valley Bend Mall and finish nearby at the Carmike parking lot, opposite to the Huntsville Hospital Wellness Center. To register for a T-shirt or make a donation visit the website saynotoobesity4k.weebly.com For questions email: saynotoobesityrun@gmail.com Let’s take a walk/run Date: Saturday, April 22nd Time: 8:00am Location: 4-Way Stop near Buffalo Wild Wings in the Jones Valley/Valley Bend Mall The walk/run finish is at nearby Carmike parking lot, opposite to the Huntsville Hospital Wellness Center. Click here for Dr. Neighbors’ 2017 news page If you would prefer to discontinue receiving ideas about healthy living from Dr. Neighbors via text messages, please phone (256) 882-6085. |