Making Beneficial Lifestyle Choices in Gallatin County

In Gallatin County, 32 participants joined three nine-week sessions of “Weight: The Reality Series,” which served teachers, school staff, and community members. The program emphasized self-designed lifestyle changes, with a physical fitness component, educational session, weigh- in, and healthy food preparation demonstration and tasting. Twenty-four people completed the series with an average loss of 5.8 pounds each. Using an eight-week written follow-up survey, participants reported changes such as: “My feet don’t hurt as much” and “I don’t get out of breath going up steps now.” According to Kentucky Rural Health Works Program, participants in weight-reduction programs reduce the financial burden to the local economy. In this series, participants decreased total health expenditures by $26,448.

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