From your friends at Jump IN for Healthy Kids, may your holiday season be full of love, laughs, and good health! See you in 2020! And if you’re looking for healthy eating or physical activity tips around the holidays, be sure to visit our Resource Hub – tons of great materials to chose from. Here’s…
We at Jump IN hope you and yours are enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Good food, good friends and family – that’s what Thanksgiving is all about. And it’s also a remarkably easy weekend to get your 5-2-1-0. And we’ll tell you how. 5 Fruits and Vegetables: Let your Thanksgiving leftovers be your friend: load…
Give thanks for good health this Thanksgiving by adding a new physically active tradition to your family’s celebration. It’s not a far-fetched idea. In fact, Thanksgiving Day boasts more run/walk races than any other day of the year. A record high 726 Thanksgiving Day races were recorded nationwide in 2016, with nearly a million finishers! We’ve rounded…
Don’t let colder temperatures and fewer daylight hours keep you from meeting the goal of an hour of physical activity per day. Use the ideas below to help you create a fall and winter fitness bucket list. ❏ Rake leaves. ❏ Walk a pumpkin patch or apple orchard. ❏ Hike a local trailway—in mud or…
We are happy to feature a guest blogger this week from one of Jump IN’s most valuable partners, the Marion County Public Health Department. Enjoy! The Costs of Physical Inactivity Physical activity is one of the best things that can be done by any one person to prevent or decrease the onset of many chronic…
