Your workout doesn’t have to include treadmills or dumbbells. Try these simple ways to make exercise part of your daily routine. I woke up one morning and, for the first time, decided to walk to work. The route took me a mile along West Grand Traverse Bay, and then when I reached the city limits […]
Culinary Medicine
Cook Like a Chef. Think Like a Dietitian. Eat Like a Farmer. This Farms, Food & Health training program offered northern Michigan health care providers an innovative Continuing Medical Education program that highlights local food, and culinary and nutrition trainings. Take your practice to the kitchen: Chop, dice, and puree your way to better health outcomes […]
Food, Farms and Health
Connecting the Dots Between Health Care, Wellness, and Locally Grown Food For more information click here to visit Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities
Social Determinates of Health
Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. These conditions are known as social determinants of health (SDOH). Poverty limits access to healthy foods and to safe neighborhoods while higher education is a predictor of better health. There are also differences in health among […]
FitKids 360
FitKids360 is a free healthy lifestyle program with the ultimate goal of fighting childhood obesity. The program was developed in 2010 by a team of pediatricians, social workers, dieticians and exercise specialists out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Together they designed a comprehensive program that combines basic education about nutrition, behavior and exercise with a wide […]
Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program
The Shape Up North Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program is designed to help patients with chronic disease create new healthy habits that align with the Dietary Guidelines. A healthy eating pattern that includes fresh fruits and vegetables is an evidence based way to improve health and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Through our […]
Provider Prospective – Fruit and Vegetable Rx Program
Over the past century, essential nutrient deficiencies have dramatically decreased, many infectious diseases have been conquered, and the majority of the U.S. population can now anticipate a long and productive life. However, as infectious disease rates have dropped, the rates of noncommunicable diseases—specifically, chronic diet-related diseases—have risen, due in part to changes in lifestyle behaviors. […]
TED Talk – Jamie Oliver, Chef and Activist shares how food can change lives
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, West Virginia — and a shocking image of the sugar we eat — TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
TED Talk – How We Can Eat Our Landscapes
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their […]
Start Where You Are
Start where you are. It’s a saying we embrace at Shape Up North because it expresses in many ways our mission of helping people achieve and maintain a healthy weight in northern Michigan. First, we love “start where you are” because it encourages everybody, whether they are are 20 pounds over target weight, 50 pounds over […]