Your Life

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

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@BI Label yourlife:FOOD

Nov. 4 is a good day to ‘Start!’

If you haven't gotten the message yet that healthy eating is important to your well-being, the Gulf Coast chapter of the American Heart Association will try again Wednesday.

Nov. 4 is the AHA’s first Start! Eating Healthy Day.

Among suggestions for the day are healthy snack exchanges, in which workers trade in their unhealthy snacks stored in desks for healthier nutritional options.

AHA also encourages businesses to create a “lunch bunch” similar to a supper club, and each day of the week one member of the bunch will prepare a healthy lunch to share with the others.

You can be sure Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Singing River Health Systems and the folks who work at AHA will be participating in Start! Eating Healthy Day. They encourage others to do so. Details: Christin LeBoeuf at 604-5307.

@BI Label yourlife:CANCER

Words of wisdom

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds down, let’s consider the words of Liz Zimmerman, who is unit clerk at Hancock Medical Center, a Waveland resident and breast cancer survivor:

“Cancer is a beast that is out to kill you, and if you are confronted with it, you have to face the beast. The good news is, you can beat the beast. I’m living proof of that.”

Zimmerman advocates early detection, which she believes is what saved her life. She is also a survivor of uterine cancer. The mother of two grown children said she makes her health her priority.

Charity

Party, calendar for a cause

Want to attend a Wild Women’s Southern Tea Party? It’s billed as “unbridled joviality” for a good cause. The 2010 calendar “Health Care Hotties” will be introduced, as well as the men. A silent auction will include items from Mississippi celebrities, such as Mary Ann Mobley and Zig Ziglar.

The cause? Bethel Free Health Clinic located at 1650 Carrol Drive in Biloxi. Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this free clinic has remained open to serve Coast residents in need.

Advance tickets at $25 are advised but a limited number will be sold at the door. Tickets are on sale at the Biloxi Pass Road branch of BancorpSouth; Gulfport’s Quality Bakery; Long Beach’s Petit Four Junction; Bay St. Louis’ Imagine That; and Ocean Springs’ Hillyer House.

The time is 1-4 p.m. Nov. 8 at Oak Crest Mansion Inn on Menge Avenue in Pass Christian. Details: www.bethelfreeclinic.org.

— Sun Herald