Category: Healthy Living
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More than 800 girls ran the Girls on the Run 5K at Oakland University ast week, the culmination of months of training. Girls on the Run teaches girls to Honor Their Bodies, Celebrate their Voices, Embrace their Gifts and Activate Their Power
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South Oakland YMCA member Alexis Sumner put herself on the path to a healthy, active lifestyle when she joined four years ago, a path that has taken her places she would have never imagined back then. In the process, she’s become half the person she once was, losing more than 200 pounds.
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Jessica Mukavetz’s family has faced more than their share of challenges over the last few years. Thanks to the Carls Family YMCA’s caring staff and a scholarship from the Strong Kids Campaign, the Y has given them all a place to have fun and some much-neededpeace of mind amidst their challenges.
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Get ready: Healthy Kids Day is taking over the Y next weekend. The Y holds Healthy Kids Day every year to teach families healthy habits in a fun way. There will be swim lessons, bounce houses and healthy cooking demos, depending on the branch. But all this fun has a purpose …to address kid’s risk…
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Finding time to do all the things you’d like to do with your kids before they grow up can be difficult, with busy work, school and activity schedules. The Y’s Adventure Guide program lets parent-child pairs pause to spend memorable times together, while trying activities they might not otherwise do.
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Y staff can underestimate the power of simply greeting someone by name, giving a word of encouragement or asking a question. But to members, that kindness goes a long way toward making them feel at home at the Y. Staff at the Macomb Family YMCA discovered that when a member who was moving out of…
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Carls YMCA board member Don Nurkala was a busy, active dad of young children, until a mystery illness struck that robbed him of strength and energy. The Y helped his family through that difficult time, and now he’s training for a trialthlon.
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Artist Pablo Davis has discovered newfound strength and newfound friends at the North Oakland YMCA.