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WATCH for challenges to your family to eat better, get moving Can you cook a meal at home this week that contains nothing from a drive-through, box, bag, microwave nor can? This workshop focused on the need for people to grow their own gardens, have sit-down family meals and show the next generation how to do it. Discussion sparked a comment from Terry Partin who mentioned a new 4-H gardening activity that requires some of the produce from each garden to be marketed at the farmers market. His comment sparked the idea from Debbie Cowan who said she felt sure they could work out more gardens at the school campus and plan to cook what they grow to teach children how to use food right from the garden. That sparked questions about how to keep varmints from eating the vegetable plants out of garden attempts, and many more ideas. By Linda Waggener A lot of us are sick. Diabetes, sedentary lifestyles and smoking are three factors that have helped us earn the label of a "distressed county". Because of this, we qualify for assistance in the form of workshops, like the subject of this WATCH Coalition workshop, Thursday, January 28, 2016, at the Adair County Health Department, working on grants to help us improve our lot. Health educators Jelaine Harlow and Destiny Greer with the Lake Cumberland District Health Department are working every day for grants that will support continuing our path to wellness. Ideas about how to continue building awareness and motivating action toward better health flowed as five counties came together at a meeting of the Adair WATCH Coalition last week. The WATCH (Working Actively Toward Community Health) Coalition background is available at WATCH (Working Actively Toward Community Health) video The workshop took place with representatives from the Marshall University Medical Center directing the group in a Diabetes Coalitions Planning Workshop at the Adair County Health Department last week. They presented a selection of evidence-based and best practice programs on chronic disease self management, healthy eating and physical activity that can be implemented by community-based organizations. Counties represented included Adair, Clinton, Casey, Russell and Wayne, all part of the Lake Cumberland District Health Department among the 42 Kentucky counties which are considered "distressed counties" because of our health statistics. The Appalachian region has higher numbers of residents with type two diabetes than the rest of the state. The numbers for many of our counties are disturbing:
Marshall University's Medical Center is the management and grant funding agent for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Richard Crespo, Project director, with project coordinators Sheila Plogger and Marie Gravely met with area coalition members to help in grant preparation. Goals and objectives were set out at the workshop for each county. Attendees were helped by the Marshall representatives to have measurement indicators so that they have better chances of winning grants for health activities in the specific counties. For instance, how many suppers can you cook at home in a week that contains nothing from a drive-through, box, bag, microwave nor can? Do you know about "hay bale gardens"? Can you walk a hundred miles in a hundred days? Can you give 150 minutes a week to walking - 30 minutes a day five days a week or 50 minutes a day for three days? For more information on this workshop or the Adair WATCH Coalition, contact: Jelaine Harlow, 270-384-2286, jelainet.harlow@lcdhd.org or Destiny Greer, 270-384-2286, destiny.greer@lcdhd.org. Comments are invited - To respond to this story, click "contact" below and on the drop down menu choose Linda Waggener to send a message directly to the writer. This story was posted on 2016-01-31 09:58:45
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