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…
It’s more complex than you may think… part 1 of 3 in a series for National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month (September) Maybe you’ve heard that 20% of children nationally—and 40% right here in central Indiana—are overweight or obese. Perhaps you know this makes childhood overweight and obesity 3 times more common today than it was…
