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  • Let’s Go School of the Month – Forest HillsRead More
    Here are just some of the Wellness activities going on at Forest Hills Elementary School: PE teacher Jessica Booth incorporates Go, Slow, Whoa nutrition messages in PE classroom Laura Bullock’s class is learning about nutrition with a class garden. The class is growing string beans, tomatoes, snow peas, cucumbers and potatoes. They are planning to have a taste testing [...]
  • Canning Class Offered in JuneRead More
  • Free Walking Classes OfferedRead More
    Join a FREE 6-week Walking Program! Learn how to exercise with a certified coach Make personal walking plan with realistic goals Track your progress with a walking diary Learn tips and resources to help you “stick with it!” Program to begin at the following two locations: Starting May 14, 2012 at Bells Elementary:  Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. Starting May 22, 2012 [...]
  • Let’s Go School of the Month – CCHSRead More
     Tina Thomas showcases vegetable plants being grown for a new garden at CCHS. Students will help tend the garden. Here are just some of the Wellness activities going on at Colleton County High School: Health tips included on staff website Staff allowed to use weight room Weight loss challenge issued to students and staff. Those participating weigh in weekly. Prizes are [...]
  • Jonesville Walk-A-Thon – April 21Read More
    Intercommunity Development Organization Inc. (old Jonesville School) Presents the 1st Annual Walk-A-Thon “Put your walking shoes on”   This event will be held on Saturday, April 21st at the I.D.O. Center 813 Jonesville Ave. Yemassee, SC 29945 Donation: $5.00 per participant Participant’s registration will be promptly at 7:30 a.m. T-shirts will be given to all walk-a-thon participants. Proceeds to benefit the restoration/rededication of the [...]
  • Eat Smart, Move More Champion – Stacey PriceRead More
    Stacey Price practices what she preaches. Just recently, she encouraged her husband, Corky, and son, Corey, to ride their bicycles with her from Walterboro to Edisto Beach – a 47 mile adventure. Stacey, who serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Eat Smart, Move More Colleton County Board of Directors, has been promoting healthy lifestyles in [...]
  • Let’s Go School of the Month – CCMS!Read More
    CCMS students have been “community health ambassadors!”  Here are just some of the Wellness activities going on at Colleton County Middle School: Principal Scott Matthews reads a nutritional tip on the PA every morning. Students are also led in a morning exercise.  Vending machines for students have been removed  A new afterschool ZUMBA class is being offered to staff  Principal has issued a challenge to [...]
  • United “Salt” of AmericaRead More
    HHS HealthBeat (Feb. 21, 2012)   Researchers say 9 in 10 Americans eat too much sodium – notably in salt, and mostly from processed or restaurant food. Sodium raises blood pressure, which can contribute to heart disease and other illnesses. But if sodium is so common and we eat so much, what can we do? Well, we can [...]
  • Children and saltRead More
    HHS HealthBeat (Feb. 27, 2012)   A study indicates eating patterns favoring salt may arise as early as babyhood. At the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Leslie Stein examined taste preferences of babies introduced to starchy table foods, which often have added salt. Stein says the infants who got the starchy foods tended to like saltier water. [...]
  • Colleton Medical offers New Nutrition ProgramRead More
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