Empowering Ourselves:The Healthy Heart Healthy Family Program starts This Month!

       We nurses are tasked with guiding our patients towards a healthier lifestyle. We come in contact with patients and their families empowered with knowledge regarding a better way towards a better future yet in a study, thirty percent of the respondents had an overweight BMI, 18.7% an obese BMI, and 5.2% a morbidly obese BMI. Thus, almost 54% of the nurse respondents were overweight or obese compared with the national statistics of 65% of the US population.(Miller, Alpert, & Cross, 2008)
      This is the issue that the Healthy Heart Healthy Family program attempts to address, hence the phrase. “Walk theTalk.” Our words our only as strong as the credibility we put behind it. In the next 6 months we invite you through a journey of transformation into the healthier nurses we always wanted to be. Come join us?
 
Miller, S. K., Alpert, P. T., & Cross, C. L. (2008). Overweight and obesity in nurses, advanced practice nurses, and nurse educators. J Am Acad Nurse Pract, 20(5), 259-265. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2008.00319.x

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