“It’s not uncommon, for instance, to receive glorious hugs from your coworkers at the start and end of a teaching day. Undiminished pleasure comes, as well, from working with students, who make heavy and often deeply emotional investments in learning to ride or pushing their limits,” says TEAM OREGON Instructor Aria Minu-Sepehr.
Category: Community Engagement
The free eight-week class helps participants with the fundamentals of healthy eating such as choosing more vegetables over too many carbohydrates, baking instead of frying and substituting water for soda.
Walk With Ease, developed by the Arthritis Foundation and funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is designed to help some of the estimated 52.5 million Americans with arthritis.
No doubt about it, as Langton Hall celebrates its 100th birthday, its layout remains as baffling as its history is distinguished.
There’s a paradox in Oregon’s hunger picture: Families who are short on food may end up overweight. That’s because dollars stretch farther on “high-energy” foods (noodles, bread and other carbs) than on “high-nutrient” foods (fresh fruit, fish, poultry and other vitamin- and protein-rich items).
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Child obesity
Everyone knows that Americans are too fat and getting fatter. Fully two-thirds of adults and one-third of children tip the scales at unhealthy weights. But figuring out what to do about a problem so tightly stitched into the cultural fabric is a big unknown.