To educate and empower faculty, staff and students to improve and maintain Healthy Lifestyle choices! The Wellness Program will foster a wellness environment that encourages campus involvement through guest speakers, organized athletic activities, group fitness and one-on-one wellness counseling, including nutrition and personalized training programs.
The theme for NOF’s 2009 Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month efforts is A Gift from Mothers to Daughters. Researchers have long cited a clear link between the risk for osteoporosis and family history as evidenced by generations of mothers suffering from osteoporosis and generations of daughters witnessing the effects of the disease—not realizing their own risk. NOF wants to break the cycle with a series of collateral materials that promote bone health and osteoporosis prevention. Of all the gifts that generations of women have passed on to their loved ones, one of the most important is the gift of knowledge about health – especially information about bone health and osteoporosis. These materials focus on alerting mothers and daughters to the risks and consequences of osteoporosis and encouraging family dialogue about the importance of bone health.
Our hope is that the next generation of American women will be armed with knowledge about bone health and osteoporosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment.