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Shelli Stinson discusses topics in wellness and offers tips for WealthBridge customers on the MindCoffee Blog. More

Each week, KishHealth hospitals deliver Healthy Monday tips and recipes and offer free screenings and Meatless Monday dining options. More

Get a little extra motivation each week on this blog which offers unique insights to weekly tips for readers. More

Parsippany Library hosts Healthy Monday seminars to educate and inform their community on how to live healthier lives. More

Healthy Monday tips are now sent to Healthcorps coordinators and partners in weekly Corps Connection e-mails. More

Read-up Monday reviews this enjoyable, laugh-coated, de-stressing memoir from “America’s Doctor” Dr. Rosenfeld. More

This year’s Sedgwick Award Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health was presented to Dr. Robert Lawrence of Johns Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future at the APHA 2009 conference.
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The Center for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Maryland is hosting lectures about mindful and healthy habits. More

West Chester University of Pennsylvania provides 8 weeks of classes to jump start healthy lifestyles for students. Learn more

At the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, wellness staff incentivize each Monday: Eat Healthy Monday, Green Monday, Move It Monday, and Mindful Monday. Learn more

The Wellness and Health Promotion office at Tulane University rolls out 8 weeks of Healthy Monday events for the entire campus community.

Baltimore City Public Schools are leading the growing nutritional awareness and local-foods movement with their school lunch program.

The blog Move Fit Fun has taken up our Move It Monday campaign and created her own Monday Tips.

To evaluate a community-based approach using frequent messaging, Healthy Monday will begin working with the Harlem Health Promotion Center, headed by Dr. Alwyn T. Cohall.

Working with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we kick off thirteen Youth Forums around the country to address childhood obesity.

Ralph Loglisci’s informative Baltimore Sun op ed cites Sunstein & Thaler’s ‘Nudge’ as an ideal model for smoke cessation. Read Ralph’s challenge

Two new studies confirm that making small changes can improve health. Starting each week with healthier behaviors makes a difference! See article

CNN trumpets Healthy Monday tips as great way to stay on track with health goals.

Sarah Newman says Mondays provide the perfect opportunity to rejuvenate your health.

Best selling author Kathy Freston champions the Meatless Monday campaign.

The Nation’s Health June/July issue features an interview with the Monday Campaign’s President Peggy Neu.   More or Download PDF

John Hopkins’ Robert Lawrence welcomes the former Beatle’s Meat Free Monday campaign.   More

Dr. Gupta reports in TIME on a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.   More

Chris Freytag, respected fitness expert, says we should all do the Monday 2000.
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Best-selling author Michael Pollan championed Meatless Monday on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show.
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A literature review portraying the effectiveness of periodic prompts in health interventions is published in The Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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Kerry Trueman, Huffington regular contributor, highlights the virtues of the Healthy Monday campaigns.
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“Go Meatless on Monday, like my family does,” urges best-selling author Michael Pollan.  More

Best-selling author Michael Pollan joined the growing coalition of health and nutrition experts advocating for meatless Mondays.  More

Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, host of Sunday Housecall, describes the value of the MONDAY 2000 campaign to budget calories for successful weight loss and maintenance. See video clip

The director of the Center for a Livable Future writes about the complex interrelationships of diet, food production, environment and human health. Read article

ACS’s Joy Rosenberg encourages smokers to keep New Year’s resolutions by recommitting to stay quit each week. Get PDF

Current study comparing diets finds what really counts is calories – good news for the Monday 2000 campaign.  More

Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Robert Lawrence encourages Mardi Gras revelers to skip meat beyond Lent.  More

Search Your Heart Sunday…Go Healthy Monday is a multi-year, faith-based program to increase heart health and stroke prevention in communities of color. More

Popular writer Kim O’Donnel encourages taking a break from meat one day a week – with lively discussion and delicious recipes.
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Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, host of Sunday Housecall on FOX News Channel, urges viewers to quit smoking – and Monday can help. See video clip

Over 37 million people have access to Monday motivational ideas from About.com expert guides – and Healthy Monday newsletters. More

Every Monday Jenny Craig delivers a newsletter with healthy tips to help lose weight and stay trim. More

Chartwells’ Monday Health Raisers health promotion program was spotlighted at the 2008 annual meeting of the American College Health Association. More

Welcome to the online educators at Nourish Interactive, new members of the Healthy Monday network featured as showcase partners in the USDA’s Partnering with MyPyramid: Corporate Challenge.

Hundreds of American College Health Association (ACHA) members learned new ways to Raise Health on Campus at this year’s annual meeting in Orlando, FL. On display were Healthy Monday Campus campaigns from Syracuse, Johns Hopkins and eight other colleges kicking off the national program.

Chartwells, a leading institutional feeder, and their successful Healthy Monday program were spotlighted as wellness directors and senior health educators looked at new health promotion ideas for the coming school year.

The Harvard Heart Letter tells readers don’t wait for the "big days" (January 1, birthdays or anniversaries). Follow Healthy Monday’s advice: make Monday the day all health breaks loose. Get PDF

Ate too much this weekend, didn’t get any exercise? It’s time to get back on track with your diet. In a new ad for Jenny, actress Valerie Bertinelli asks, "It’s Monday – have you called Jenny yet?"

The 400,000 members of 1199 Service Employees International Union Family of Funds are committed to caring for the healthcare workers who care for others. 1199 supports Monday as the day to recommit to health and wellness

Two holistic health experts, members of the MindBody Patient Care Program and the Faculty/Staff Wellness Program at New York University Medical Center, have applied the Healthy Monday concept of a weekly fresh start – and come up with an innovative program to help people begin the practice of mindfulness.

Meatless Monday, in association with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, piloted a project in two Baltimore County public middle schools during the 2006-2007 school year. Students were encouraged to replace meat with fruits, vegetables and meatless entrees every Monday.

A reality-show style TV series dramatizing student/teacher “health makeovers” won a 2007 Telly Award for Syracuse University?s Video Production Unit in the category of health and wellness. The Healthy Show, which premiered on the University’s Orange Television Network last year, was produced for the Healthy Monday Campus initiative at Syracuse.

The Campaign is raising the health of Columbia University Medical Center employees by offering nutritional information. The Columbia Health Initiative Team (CHI) motivates individuals, provides support and promotes opportunities for making positive health decisions.

YMCA’s annual Healthy Kids Day is part of their Activate America campaign making healthy living a reality for millions, YMCA Healthy Kids Day encourages kids and their families nationwide to stay active, connected and healthy.

There are 20.8 million children and adults in the US with diabetes – and nearly one-third of them (some 6.2 million people) do not know it! Take this test to see if you are at risk for having or developing type 2 diabetes.

The West Side branch of the YMCA is launching a series of activities to help their members get Healthy Monday!? Monday will be guest day at the Ybring a friend or family member to learn about health programs at the Y.? If they join, they get a complimentary one hour personal training session or massage session.? Complimentary blood pressure and body fat screenings are also being offered on Monday.? And beginning in January, West Side will offer a Healthy Monday lecture series, starting with a talk on Financial Fitness.

Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, popular health columnist in Parade Magazine and weekly host of the FOX TV show "Sunday Housecall with Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld," calls Monday a great day to start and succeed with health changes – whether you want to quit smoking, lose weight, get fit or eat better.

More than 155,000 Jenny Craig members nationwide have opted to receive motivational messages on Monday to keep them focused and on target to meet their weight loss goals.

Monday Health Raisers at the Quinnipiac University are vowing to kick the habit and quit smoking. Starting on November 16 with the Great American Smoke Out, key members of the food service staff, operated by Chartwell’s, are starting steps to a healthier lifestyle by stomping butts!

Students in a social marketing competition at the Mailman School of Public Health designed three health interventions using Monday to anchor behavior change. One group educated students about the benefits of sleep and encouraged them to use Monday night to catch up on lost Zzzzs. Another addressed social isolation and loneliness, inviting students to use Monday to spread Pokes using the internet site, FaceBook. The third group created a MySpace Blog where students could share Healthy Monday tips.

The American Public Health Association, a meeting of health professionals from around the country and the world, attracted more than 15,000 attendees this year to Boston. There to spread the word about the merits of adding Monday to ongoing health promotion programs as a repeated call to action and/or compliance date, were founder Sid Lerner, director Dr. Audrey Cross, and community outreach coordinator Michael A. Hernandez.

Advertising Age, Crain’s international newspaper of marketing, has challenged marketers to help improve the health of Americans. Editor-in-Chief Rance Crain commended Healthy Monday for offering an opportunity for marketers to become the engine that can drive this campaign.

Healthy Monday, in conjunction with Meatless Monday, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Chartwells, has launched the "Monday Health Raisers" program which invites college students to create innovative, fun programs to improve health habits among students and college staff.