{"id":10810,"date":"2016-08-25T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/gmr\/blog\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2018-08-13T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:26:51","slug":"nature-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2016\/08\/nature-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u00a0the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary. As so\u00a0many people have done over the past century, including the fictional Griswolds, my family of four took to\u00a0the open road on a hot summer day traveling\u00a02,000 miles from the Heartland of America to visit the celestial mountains, lakes, and forests out West. What did we find? Exactly that – mountains and lakes and forests. We\u00a0also found so much more. As we paddled a kayak\u00a0in the crystal clear Lake Crescent; hiked a 600-foot incline\u00a0to view Glacier waterfalls; and strolled a misty beach hearing thunderous waves smack the Pacific\u00a0coast, we discovered health – mental and physical.<\/p>\n

However, I am reminded\u00a0not to wait for a vacation to\u00a0create\u00a0peace of mind and strong bones and muscles. Physical activity should be incorporated into my\u00a0daily life.\u00a0When the Obama administration came into office, the First Lady made it her\u00a0mission\u00a0to fight childhood obesity.\u00a0Let’s Move<\/em><\/a> was Michelle Obama’s\u00a0initiative to motivate children to eat well\u00a0and exercise. The\u00a0Get Active<\/a> page has useful\u00a0recommendations for the amount of beneficial activity and food intake for staying fit. The President, too, supported his wife’s program with his challenge to\u00a0modify lifestyle behavior.\u00a0View a list of\u00a0suggested\u00a0activities or take a fitness test at the\u00a0President’s Challenge<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0National Library of Medicine, too, has several resources to guide you to a healthier you.\u00a0MedlinePlus – Exercise and Physical Fitness<\/a>\u00a0compiles facts, information and links to\u00a0many\u00a0useful sites such as Exercise Tips for Travelers<\/a> at Go4Life<\/a> from the National Institute on Aging and consumer health information for Joining a Gym<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n

For more science-based information, look at\u00a0HealthyPeople.gov<\/a>. HHS developed\u00a0this website as part of the\u00a0Healthy People 2020 [PDF]<\/a>\u00a0initiative. It\u00a0provides resources to help implement programs and applications\u00a0to\u00a0improve the Nation’s Health by 2020.\u00a0Now, I will stop writing so you will stop reading, and\u00a0we all can\u00a0go\u00a0for a walk.<\/p>\n

\"kayaking\"\"Second\"Crossing<\/p>\n

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Today\u00a0the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary. As so\u00a0many people have done over the past century, including the fictional Griswolds, my family of four took to\u00a0the open road on a hot summer day traveling\u00a02,000 miles from the Heartland of America to visit the celestial mountains, lakes, and forests out West. What did we find?… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-outreach","category-resource-sharing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-2Om","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}