Create healthy habits, lower your risk of disease, meet new friends, and achieve your 2023 health goals! Join Fayette County's upcoming eight-week Walk Across Texas! Program, which starts Sunday, March 10.
Walking is one of the least expensive and easiest ways to get fit says Sally Garrett, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Agent-Family & Community Heath. Physical activity helps reduce your risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Increase your chances for success by creating a team of eight and joining your teammates as they walk towards a healthier lifestyle. Walk Across Texas! is life-changing. By completing the eight-week program, you will feel better, lower your stress level, and get all the additional benefits of regular physical activity, not to mention
creating long-standing, healthy habits of physical activity.
A weekly newsletter with health/nutritional information will be sent out to all WAT members states Garrett. There is no cost for this exercise program, and you can sign up online. Challenge your friends, family members, and/or co-workers to sign up. Other forms of physical activity can also be counted on your weekly activity log. To learn more or register go to howdyhealth.tamu.edu. If you have any questions contact the Fay - ette County Extension Office at 979-968-5831.
Get Moving! All you need is 30 minutes a day to realize the benefits of a healthier life.
