HU's Healthy Choices for Minorities

Hampton, VA - On Wednesday April 5, Hampton University’s Healthy Hamptonians 2010 will be celebrating their sixth annual Healthy Choices for Minorities Health Fair.  The events are free and open to the public.  From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be free health screenings:  blood cholesterol, blood glucose, blood pressure, body composition, hearing, posture analysis, shoe evaluation and sickle cell trait.

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to learn how to maintain a healthy life style.  You will get the chance to meet with trained professionals and counselors who will guide you down the path of healthy living.

Healthy Hamptonians was created to support our national health agenda for the next decade, Healthy People 2010 – Wellness for Life was established in 2000 as a health promotion and disease prevention initiative for the Hampton University campus community.  Healthy Hamptonians mission is to improve quality of life and reduce health disparities among faculty, staff and students of the HU campus and its surrounding community.

“Healthy People 2010 has 10 focus areas including, physical activity, weight management, tobacco use, substance use & abuse, healthy relationships, immunization and health care services,” said Dr. Marilyn Wells, Chair of the Health, Physical Science, and Recreation Department and creator of Healthy Hamptonians.

 “We’ve also sponsored Weight Watchers At Work programs, walking and aerobic groups, and Wellness Fridays Seminars, to name a few.”

For more information on Healthy Hamptonians 2010 and the health fair, please contact Dr. Marilyn Wells, at (757) 727-5208 or via e-mail at marilyn.wells@hamptonu.edu.