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A Healthy Bet Fitness Challenge is a 12-week national campaign inviting individuals to improve their health through active lifestyle changes. The initiative has two components: Team Contest and Individual On-line Challenge. Selected Team Finalist and on-line participants compete for major prize incentives including cash awards, fitness club memberships, fitness clothing and celebrity books, all-expenses paid trips to health spas and the BET Awards, and an opportunity to appear in A Healthy BET national PSA.
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The Women's Health Symposium is designed to provide African-American women with a wealth of information about how to embrace a healthier lifestyle and practical approaches for addressing various health concerns. Health disparities discussed include obesity, heart disease, diabetes, reproductive health, forms of cancers, depression, digestive care, women and clinical trial, nutrition and fitness. The event includes a master fitness class, plenary sessions, concurrent workshops, complimentary lunch and breakfast, special entertainment or master life coaching and free health screenings. Read More
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The annual BET Summer Camp for Girls is a residential camp program designed to address childhood obesity and to promote healthier lifestyles through health literacy, nutrition, fitness, exercise, positive thinking, and self-responsibility. The goal is to help young African-American girls, ages 10-12, to make healthier lifestyle choices while understanding the key-risk behaviors that can lead to obesity and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. Girls participate in a comprehensive program, which includes nutrition seminars, daily exercise, sports, creative and therapeutic arts, group and one-on-one guidance counseling and a myriad of fun, age-appropriate play activities. Participating girls are referred to a 4-month after camp program, which expands on the camp health, nutrition and fitness curriculum. Read More
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Worth More than Weight is designed to raise awareness about the consequences and co-existence of mental health disorders and obesity. Mental health disorders such as depression, bi-polar, anxiety and body-image concerns are found often in women with eating disorders. Such illnesses may influence the development of an eating disorder leading to obesity and other chronic health conditions. The program will help women recognize the co-existence of these conditions, and seek appropriate treatment and sustainable support. Outreach components include educational seminars, PSA, free brochures, a toll-free referral hotline, Micro site, topical DVD and information journals. BET Foundation is seeking funding for a 2009 program launch.
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Health Education & Active Learning(H.E.A.L.) Academy sponsored by the Aetna Foundation, teaches girls to analyze, evaluate and make healthier lifestyle choices and empowers them with the knowledge, skill, and opportunity to become active health advocates for policy changes in their schools, families and neighborhoods. Designed ass an after-school program curriculum, this initiative serves as a guiding instrument for addressing the rising obesity rate in children, leveraging the critical role parents, teachers and the community play in reversing the epidemic of childhood obesity. The first pilot school site launched September, 2008 in Baltimore, MD. Read More
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- The Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity