Utah Trails Promotion: Planning your event
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From the Alliance for Cardiovascular Health in Utah
Link: Utah Trails Promotion: Planning your event
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Did you know that half of everyone in your community is overweight or obese? Did you know that more than half also don’t get enough physical activity to support good health?
Increased activity can help strengthen hearts, lower cholesterol, and maintain a healthy weight. Activities like biking and walking can be done by the majority of the people in your community, and need to be encouraged whenever, and wherever possible.
One way to promote walking and biking is to build communities that are conducive to these activities. Such communities are called Active Community Environments, or ACEs. Research shows us that people are more active in communities that are designed with sidewalks, multi-use trails, and open spaces that provide safe and attractive places to walk and ride bikes. Hopefully, your community is one of the many in Utah that is working to make your community a place that encourages healthy living.
Promoting activities that include the trails and walkways in your area can remind the people in your community where their parks, trails and pathways are, and give them the desire to use them more often. This will also encourage your builders and developers to include more Active Community Environments in their plans for future development.
Your local health departments and parks and recreation program planners are working hard to plan, organize and implement activities that remind community members where their urban trails are, and that walking can be done comfortably and safely in their own neighborhoods. Having community members working with them in planning these activities goes a long way toward making them a success.
We know that the health and wellness of your community are of utmost importance to you, and feel that like you we can work together to help our citizens to begin and to maintain these healthy behaviors.
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