The American Diabetes Association is challenging local residents to begin living a healthier lifestyle through the America Gets Cooking to Stop Diabetes campaign, presented by Sun Life Financial.
This initiative is designed to engage and empower Americans to cook nutritious and delicious food, and encourage them to be more active. Through social media and an interactive landing page on DiabetesForecast.org, the Assoc. shares healthy cooking tips, diabetes and nutrition facts, recipes and more.
You can take part in the challenge to start living a healthier lifestyle by participating in the American Diabetes Month’s weekly activities:
1.Get Moving Mondays: After the weekend, people are not as excited about getting up and going on a Monday. Get Moving Mondays provides easy tips to help people get moving and keep up an active lifestyle all week long.
2. Tasty Tip Tuesdays: Many people are afraid of losing the taste when they make a recipe healthier. Every Tuesday, the Association takes a traditional recipe and substitutes ingredients with healthier options without losing flavor.
3.What’s Cooking Wednesdays: The public votes on recipes that represent a healthy side dish, appetizer and/or dessert that they would like for a holiday meal. At the end of the month, we unveil the winners.
4. Get Together Thursdays or Any Day! Ways to implement healthy cooking activities into daily life. Fun parties that can incorporate healthy recipes for family and friends.
5. Fact Check Friday: Challenging the public’s knowledge about nutrition and diabetes, each Friday a question is posted to test diabetes knowledge and encourage people to share it with their friends, family and/or co-workers.
6.Weekend Challenge to Stop Diabetes: Use the weekend as an opportunity to get active and help raise funds to Stop Diabetes.
For great tips, recipes and more each week, visit the Associations web page at www.diabetesforecast.org/ADM. To learn more, you can also visit us on Facebook (facebook.com/AmericanDiabetesAssociation) or call 1-800-DIABETES.