In 2011, People's Health Day was created from the importance of the Need for Health. It was built around the message of HOW to be healthy. And Atlanta was lucky enough to experience it first!
The all-day event succeeded in sparking a Mission on Health, doing so with over 15 vendors, interviews with two speakers, a 5k Race, and a Hollywood Actress winning Gold!
Stonyfield Yogurt donated a new line of health-oriented probiotic yogurt. Their company was featured in the documentary 'Food, Inc' because of their strong stance on organic food products.
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Having Stonyfield products at People's Health Day helped promote a message of organic eating. It fit perfectly alongside other vendors of local farmers & restaurants. These like-minded vendors encouraged People's Health Day visitors to realize that organic food provides more dense nutrition, without the threat of toxins coming from man-made chemicals.
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In an interview with a long-time organic farmer, we discovered a potential solution for the difficulties of the organic agriculture industry.
We pieced it together that it would be easy enough for our government to redirect subsidies from corn (and other similar crops) and put the money towards organic farms that focus on diversity. |
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Other vendors promoted exercise for young ones with fun & games, and messages of how enjoyable it is to be healthy at a young age. It's easier than you think to get creative, and get moving!
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Juice Plus+ joined us as a vendor promoting their famous product that makes it easy to get your full servings of fruits & vegetables from an easy-to-swallow capsule or tasty chewables (great for kids!).
Their company discovered an interesting process of extracting only the vitamins & healthy nutrients from fruits & veges, while leaving out the sugars, water, etc. And what you're left with is an easy couple of pills a day to get all those preserved nutrients. It makes life so much easier when you're trying to fulfill all your nutritional needs!
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A local gym promoted their membership, and more importantly added to the message of balance with exercise.
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Cardio
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Stretching
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For healthy exercise you must strike up a balance between Strength Training, Cardio and Stretching. Leave one aspect out, and you'll set yourself up for injury & sickness. Do it right, and it'll become a healing & enjoyable experience.
The 5k Race was truly epic, and resulted in many runners' compliments. It started in Georgia Tech and took runners through the beautiful roads & scenery of Midtown Atlanta.
The home stretch (seen above) wrapped around a large circular path where you could see the finish line across an open field of Piedmont Park. Just imagine hearing the cheers of the crowd as you're running with a full minute left in the race!
Our Gold Medal Winner was a father who ran it in 19 minutes (well under a 6 minute mile). He then proceeded to run home to pick up his young toddler to carry her back to the event with him, so that she could be up on stage with him as he received the Gold Medal!
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Our Gold Medal Winner!
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Note: For People's Health Day 2.0, we'll have LOTS more hills to tire out even the most advanced runners!
To top it all off, the day was complete with a Hollywood Actress participating in the 5k Race, all the way to a Gold Medal herself!
Mena Suvari later made news about it, saying "GOLD BABY!!! … This is definitely one of the best days of my life. It was my 3rd race ever in my life. I'm definitely addicted!" Mena is best known for her role in American Beauty and the American Pie series.
If you're interested in seeing a People's Health Day in your hometown, keep the donations coming! We want to be there for you because it helps educate an entire community, and takes us all on a better path! Let's Get Fearless Together.
If you're interested in the idea behind People's Health Day, that creativity actually happened during a run! Exercise leads to all sorts of creativity if you do it right! With that in mind, FearlessPhilanthropy will soon launch an exercise program that will show you how to find your Fearless so you can get that Creativity. It'll empower you with an endless energy that will lead you towards success & happiness.
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