Choose Healthy
Make little choices every day to live a healthy life.
Farmers Market at Marketfest
Meet the people who grow your food! The Farmers Market offers a variety of fruits, vegetables, dairy products, olive oil, nuts, bakery items, nursery plants, and more that are locally grown or produced. No cost to attend. Prices vary among vendors.
Thursdays July 3rd to August 28th
4:30 to 8:30 pm
Library Park (next to the Lorenz Building between Yuba and Placer Streets)
Farmers Market Family Day Rescheduled for Saturday, July 19th
Come play with your food at the Farmers Market Family Day at the Redding Certified Farmers Market (next to City Hall on Cypress Avenue). Supervisor Glenn Hawes will be hosting fun activities on ways to grow, eat, and play with fruits and vegetables. Activities will include: Taste of Good Eatin’ healthy cooking demo and produce box raffle with Glenn Hawes, Nutrition Wheel, Healthy Smiles, Garden in a Glove with the 20/30’s Club, Wear your Baby with the Breastfeeding Support Center, Nutrition Olympics, and distribution of Farmers’ Market Coupons to eligible WIC participants. Win kids prizes while supplies last or enter the raffle for a free produce box. Part of the Healthy Shasta movement! Free. 8 am to noon. Contact Shasta County WIC for more information, 225-5168.
Summer Open Gym at Big League Dreams
Redding Recreation and Big League Dreams present Free Summer Open Gym. Saturday nights June 14th - August 30th (closed June 28th), 7-11 pm. No admission fee. Bring your own basketball. Youth 14-19 get priority play. No outside food and beverages allowed. Big League Dreams Sports Park Pavillion (20155 Viking Way, Redding, 223-1177). See flier below for more info.
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'Young Lives at Risk: Our Overweight Children'
The Washington Post featured a comprehensive five-part series, "Young Lives at Risk: Our Overweight Children" from May 19-22, 2008. For the duration of the series, childhood obesity was Page 1 news. And that's just where it belongs. Visit their website at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/childhoodobesity/index.html for interactive tools about healthy foods for kids, the impact of obesity on children's bodies, and much more!
Shasta FORWARD
Shasta FORWARD is a community-based project that will examine the growth of Shasta County over the next 20-30 years. Shasta FORWARD is an opportunity for collaboration among agencies, groups, and community residents. As a community resident you can provide your input by taking the survey at www.shastaforward.com.
Healthy Shasta is participating in this process because land use decisions can have a positive or negative effect on health. For instance, communities designed with health in mind offer neighborhoods within walking and biking distance to grocery stores, physician’s offices, civic/cultural amenities and restaurants. This incorporates physical activity into a daily routine which can help decrease obesity, high blood pressure, and heart disease. For more on what makes a healthy community, visit our Healthy Communities section.
Healthy Shasta is a local partnership dedicated to helping you add more physical activity and healthy eating to your busy day! We are also committed to making long-lasting changes so the healthy choice becomes the easy choice everywhere you live, work and play!
