September
| September 1 – 30 |
| | Healthy Aging Month |
| - Physical fitness: engage in 30 minutes of aerobic exercise and weight-bearing
exercise every day. - Social well-being: stay in close contact with friends and family.
- Mental wellness: develop a hobby.
- Financial fitness: save at least 10% of your income and invest in savings plans
that compound interest.
| | Source: | Healthy Aging | | September 1 – 30 |
| | Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month |
| | | Source: | National Ovarian Cancer Coalition | | September 1 – 30 |
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America On the Move's STEPtember Campaign
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| - By making small, simple changes to your daily eating and activity choices, you can start building proven habits that will positively affect your weight and health.
- To avoid weight gain, start by adding just 2,000 extra steps to your daily routine, and choose wise ways to eat 100 fewer calories each day.
- Losing as little as 5% to 10% of total weight can significantly improve health.
| | Source: | America on the Move | | September 1 – 30 |
| | National Cholesterol Education Month |
| - High cholesterol is a leading factor in developing heart disease or having a
heart attack. - Everyone can benefit from having low cholesterol (all ages, sexes, and races).
- Lifestyle changes and medication can help lower cholesterol.
- Two main nutrients in foods make your LDL-cholesterol level (bad cholesterol)
go up: saturated fat and cholesterol, both which come mainly from animal products.
| | Source: | National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute | | September 1 – 30 |
| | Prostate Cancer Awareness Month |
| - 1 in 6 men will get prostate cancer, but if caught early, nearly 100% will survive.
- Early prostate cancer has no symptoms, which is why screening is so important.
- African American men have an increased chance of getting prostate cancer: 1 in 4.
| | Source: | National Prostate Cancer Coalition | | September 1 – 30 |
| | Reyes Syndrome Awareness Month |
| - Reye's Syndrome usually appears after a flu-like infection, upper respiratory
infection, chicken pox, or other viral illness. - Reye's Syndrome affects all organs of the body, but most lethally the liver and
the brain. - Early signs of Reye's Syndrome are continuous vomiting, listlessness, loss of
energy, aggressiveness, confusion, and irrational behavior. - Reyes Syndrome Awareness Week : September 15-23
| | Source: | National Reye's Syndrome Foundation |
| September 1 – 30 |
| | Craniofacial Acceptance Month |
| - A craniofacial disorder refers to an abnormality of the face and/or the head.
- A craniofacial condition may include disfigurement brought about by birth defect, disease or trauma.
| | Source: | Children's Craniofacial Association | | September 1 – 30 |
| | Fruit and Veggies- More Matters Month |
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A growing body of research shows that fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health.
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Fruits and vegetables contain essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber that may help protect you from chronic diseases.
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To get a healthy variety, think color. Eating fruits and vegetables of different colors gives your body a wide range of valuable nutrients.
| | Source: | Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Produce for Better Health Foundation | | September 1 – 30 |
| | National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month |
| - An estimated 7.9 percent of Americans aged 12 or older (19.1million) were current users of illicit drugs
- More men than women had experience of taking more than one drug. 52% of men but only 36% of women who had taken drugs had taken more than one type.
| | Source: | National Drug and Alcohol | | September 1 – 30 |
| | National Infant Mortality Awareness Month |
| - The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrialized nations in the world in infant mortality.
- The rate of low birthweight among African American mothers continues to be twice that of white women.
| | Source: | National Healthy Start Association | | September 1- 30 |
| | National Pediculosis Prevention Month/ Head Lice Prevention Month |
| - Pediculosis is an infestation of the hairy parts of the body or clothing with the eggs, larvae or adults of lice.
- Anyone may become louse infested under suitable conditions of exposure. Pediculosis is easily transmitted from person to person during direct contact.
- Females get head lice more often than males.
| | Source: | Headlice.org | | September 1-30 |
| | Sports and Home Eye Safety Month |
| - Accidents involving common household products cause 125,000 eye injuries each year.
- More than 40,000 people a year suffer eye injuries while playing sports.
- For all age groups, sports-related eye injuries occur most frequently in baseball, basketball and racquet sports.
| | Source: | Prevent Blindness America |
| September 21 |
| | World Alzheimer's Day |
| - Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia.
- Currently more then 5 million people in the US have alzheimer's disease.
- About five percent of people over the age of 60, and some 35 percent of people over 85, will have Alzheimer's disease.
| | Source: | Alzehimer's Disease International | | September 28- October 4 |
| | Hearing Aid Awareness Week |
| | | Source: | International Hearing Society | | September 30 |
| | World Heart Day |
| - Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) rank as America's number 1 killer, claiming the lives of over 36 percent of than 2.4 million people who die each year in the US.
- An estimated 72 million people in the United States age 20 or older have high blood pressure, a risk factor for CVD.
- 105.2 million people in the United States age 20 or older have blood cholesterol of 200 mg/dL or above, a risk factor for CVD.
| | Source: | World Heart Federation | | |
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