Information to help you succeed with your
personal health, nutrition and fitness goals.
2017 Feet and Forks
March 13, 2017
Volume 1, Number 6
National Nutrition Month: “Put your Best Fork Forward”
In This Issue
 National Nutrition Month: “Put
your Best Fork Forward”
 Community. Will Investing in
Our Community Improve Our
Health?
 Mark Your Calendar
 Top Miles
Encouragement of the Week
"Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or
lose." –Lyndon B. Johnson
Photo Contests
Send to Cindy Davis at
[email protected] no later
than the dates listed
March 23, 2017
With your team create an art or
nature inspired design using your
favorite pair of walking shoes.
Creativity is highly encouraged.
Additional Resources
Life &Work Connections has
individual sessions to help you
determine the appropriate fuel
you need for your workouts.
Connect With Us!
Cindy Davis, MPH, RDN
Employee Wellness and Health
Promotion Nutrition/Fitness Coach
UA Life & Work Connections
(520) 621-4601
This year’s Walk Across Arizona theme is tied into National Nutrition Month
and its theme. Walk Across Arizona has a nutrition component of increasing
fruit and vegetable intake as one of its 3 goals. Focusing on getting your
appropriate servings of fruits and vegetables daily is also one way of moving
away from feeling restricted or in the dieting mode.
This video Eat Right for your Lifestyle reminds us that we all have different
nutrition needs and goals. Put your best fork forward as you move your
feet forward in crossing our great state to experience the benefits of
improved health. To help you create your personal nutrition and physical
activity plan contact your RDN’s at Life & Work Connections.
Community. Will Investing in Our Community Improve Our Health?
It certainly can’t hurt. So far in our newsletters we have talked about
including our family in our daily physical activity as community. We haven’t
explored getting involved beyond home life. Volunteering also has the
capability of adding to our daily physical activities and even creates feelings
of satisfaction.
Other volunteer options include organized fundraisers which might involve
walking or running for your favorite charity or research for one of the many
diseases affecting so many around us. A 5K or 10K doesn’t even have to
involve running if running isn’t easy for you. My family and I have walked or
run in these community organized events. In the end the money from a
walker spends as well as the funds from a runner and both have gained
physical activity miles along with a sense of contribution to others.
Some suggestions are listed below:
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Colon Cancer Coalition
Charitable
Ride to Cure Diabetes: For bicyclists
Climb to Conquer Cancer: We missed it this year however it’s an annual
event, usually the first weekend in March, to keep in mind for next year.
Boneyard Run: or Desert Boneyard. This run usually occurs the last
weekend in October and offers a unique opportunity to catch a glimpse of
our aerospace history.
T.R.O.T.: Don’t worry if you don’t have experience with horses. I hear they
like people who can handle a shovel.
Check It Out!
WAAZ Photo Contest 3: Greens are for More Than Getting Your Iron and Calcium
1st Place:
Walkin - N - Rockin from Keating BIO5
2nd Place:
Pi-destrians and Friend in a Shamrock
Scarf
3rd Place:
CALS aCOWntants and CALS Step
COWnters have the tallest
leprechaun on campus
Mark Your Calendar
March 21, 2017 Walks with Campus Leaders
Walk with Paluo Goes, Ph.D.
Eller College Dean
Professor of Management Information Systems
Meet outside the north entrance to McClelland Hall
April 1, 2017
End of Walk Across Arizona (8 weeks); Last Day to Record Your Miles!
April 2, 2017
Complete the WAAZ Exit Survey
April 12, 2017
Celebration Finale!
For more upcoming events visit: https://lifework.arizona.edu/calendar
Top Miles
Team
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Total Miles (as of 9:01 a.m. March 13)
DEM Lifesavers
Team Friybread
Walk It like It’s Hot
Christopher Walkin
SBS Happy Feet
2918.04
2870.85
2521.23
1750.22
1690.08
Remember to log your miles at least once a week:
https://cals.arizona.edu/walkacrossaz/