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What is Body & Soul?
Body & Soul: A Celebration of Healthy Eating and Living is
a proven health program developed for African American churches. The program
empowers church members to eat a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables
every day for better health. Churches that embrace Body & Soul help their
members take care of their bodies as well as their spirits.
Why Body & Soul?
African Americans are at high risk for many serious and often fatal diseases.
These include high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and many types of
cancer. A healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables promotes good health and
can help lower the risk for these illnesses.
How Does Body and Soul Work?
Church members customize and run Body & Soul to fit the
needs of their church. You can draw upon the many talents of your church members
to nourish and sustain your congregation as they move toward a healthier body
and soul.
What are the benefits of Body & Soul?
Body & Soul congregations embrace and celebrate good
health through healthy eating. By implementing Body & Soul, your congregation
can help meet its health ministry goals:
What Your Congregation Receives?
3rd John 3:2 ... I pray that you may enjoy good health and
that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
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poster.
Faith Community Nursing (FCN) Service:
FCN is the specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on
intentional care of the spirit as part of promoting holistic health and
preventing or minimizing illness. AARTH collaborates with nursing/health
organizations and institutions to engage licensed, active, retired and student
nurses in providing preventative health services.
- Healthy Congregations Project: AARTH partners with faith
houses to provide services that emphasize faith in action through healthy
behavior.
- Power To Live Smart – A prevention and wellness program
developed for African American churches that provide the resources to
educate members about stroke prevention and heart attack through controlling
high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and increase awareness about the
signs and symptoms of stroke, heart attack, and the importance of
immediately calling 9-1-1 in the case of stroke or heart attack. Churches
receive peer education training and materials.
- Body & Soul – A celebration of healthy eating and living.
A wellness program developed for African American churches that provide the
resources to educate members and help change eating practices to a diet rich
in fruits and vegetables. Churches receive peer education training,
educational materials, cook books and videos on nutrition and healthy
soulful menus.
Contact AARTH for more
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