Kentucky campus gets healthier every Monday. Northern Kentucky University actively promotes and encourages healthy lifestyle behaviors for students and faculty through Healthy Monday Initiatives: Monday Mile, Quit Monday, and the Healthy Monday Motivator.

Woman's Day offers month of menus. Newstand favorite Woman’s Day, which features a whole month’s worth of healthy Meatless Monday menu ideas in every issue. They’ve been helping Americans get a healthy start on the week since 2004.

Holistic approach to healthy change Times-Union blogger Judi England brings readers of her Holistic Health and Medicine blog a fresh take on the Healthy Monday message every week.

The American Schools of Public Health (ASPH) Board of Directors has endorsed the Healthy Monday campaign and encouraged its members to use Monday motivation ideas in their schools, universities and communities.

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 raised interest in the Monday Health Raisers program at this year's ACHA Meeting. 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.

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.

Join 37 million people who get informative, fun and motivational Monday ideas from About.com health authors – and sign up for About's Healthy Monday newsletters.

Jenny Craig Launches New Monday Ads

Really overdid it this weekend, eh? Ate too much, didn't get any exercise. Well, now the party's over. 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?"

Health Care Workers Union Joins the Healthy Monday Network

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

NYU Langone Medical Center Launches Mindfulness Monday Program

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.

Baltimore County Public Schools Shake It Up

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. The project encouraged students to replace meat with fruits, vegetables, and meatless entrees just one day a week - Monday.

SU's Healthy Reality Show Wins 2007 Telly Award

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.

Healthy Monday Joins Columbia Health Initiative

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

Healthy Monday promotes YMCA Healthy Kids Day

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.

American Diabetes Alert Day - See if you are at risk

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.

YMCA Announces Healthy Monday Series

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 Y—bring 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.

"America's Doctor" Endorses Healthy Monday

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. According to Dr. Rosenfeld, whether you want to quit smoking, lose weight, get fit, eat better—Monday is a great day to start. And he notes, there are 52 opportunities each year to get it right!

Jenny Gives Monday Motivational Messages

More than 155,000 Jenny Craig members nationwide have opted in to receive motivational messages on Monday to keep them focused and on target to meet their weight loss goals. Cozette Pfizer, director of corporate communications, says, "Jenny Craig is looking forward to having Mondays become THE day ALL Americans think of their health."

Quinnipiac University Kicks Butts on Monday!

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!

Columbia University Class Launches Healthy Monday Challenges

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.

Healthy Monday at APHA

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.

AdAge Editor-in-Chief Hails Healthy Monday

Advertising Age, Crain's international newspaper of marketing, has challenged marketers to join the effort to improve the health of Americans. Noting that the collective marketing power of businesses and media organizations have made Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Halloween successful marketing events, Editor-in-Chief Rance Crain commended Healthy Monday for offering an opportunity for marketers to become the engine that can drive this campaign to healthier Americans.

Students to Raise Health on Campus

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 and fun programs to improve health habits among students and the college community.? A $500 prize will be awarded each month to the student(s) who create the most impactful "health raising" campaign(s).? Feel free to post the announcement poster on your campus and to learn about the campaign.

Smoke-Free Coalition Hears Quit Monday Message

"Pick a date" or "Set a date" is among top tips for how to quit smoking. Healthy Monday director, Dr. Audrey Cross, and founder, Sid Lerner, recently addressed the NYC Coalition for a Smoke-free City and encouraged member organizations to be more specific about when to quit—"Quit Monday." Monday not only adds a specific call to action but puts quitting on the calendar every week, 52 weeks per year. Coalition Director, Joanne Koldare, agreed that "Smokers typically try 7 or more times to quit. Each attempt to quit is a step in the right direction."

Mondays Are Even Healthier at the YMCA

The YMCA of Greater New York has a plan to help even more New Yorkers get healthy on Mondays. The YMCA will soon launch Healthy Monday programs, including free guest passes on Mondays and weekly presentations on a variety of health topics. ?Good health depends on establishing habits like regular physical activity and healthy eating. The YMCA?s Healthy Monday offerings will be the stimulus for people to get started living a healthy lifestyle,? said Michael Spezzano, YMCA Vice President, Program and Membership. The YMCA has 19 locations throughout the five boroughs and camping outside the city.

NY State Quitsite Links to Healthy Monday

It usually takes smokers a few tries to stop smoking - some as many as a dozen or more - before they succeed. Using the "Quit Monday" or "Monday Method" can help smokers become quitters more quickly. The New York State Smokers Quit site now includes a link to Healthy Monday for smokers to find these resources.

Chartwells to Promote Monday Health Raisers

Chartwells, which provides food and nutrition services to more than 220 colleges and universities across the country, has joined with Healthy Monday and Meatless Monday to promote "Raising Health on Campus" at their participating schools. As part of their "Eat, Learn, Live" program, Chartwells will promote campus "health raisers" - students who encourage other students to take a "Monday Mile" hike, have a "Meatless Monday" meal, join a "Quit Monday" smoke-enders group and other positive health behaviors.

Take Care New York Joins the Monday Movement

Take Care New York is a citywide campaign to improve the health of New Yorkers by encouraging them to take ten strategic steps to healthier, longer lives. "A cue or call to action can be an important stimulus to insure that New Yorkers take these ten steps," said Erica Desai, director of the program.

American Legacy Foundation Launches New Quit Smoking Approach

One of the leading smoke cessation programs in the US has adopted Monday as a quit target date to help smokers kick the habit. 70% of smokers want to quit. With the new focus on Monday, quitters will have a weekly chance to stop smoking.

FreshDirect Offers Healthy Monday Specials

FreshDirect, an online service that delivers fresh foods, menu ingredients and prepared meals direct to your door, has joined Healthy Monday to offer discounts on Monday specials. Melissa Iglesias, dietitian at FreshDirect, says, "Ordering fresh, wholesome, nutritious foods on Monday helps our customers meet their diet and nutrition goals for the whole week."

Newhouse School Students Get Fit and Raise Funds for Heart Disease

The Healthy IM (Healthy Monday) initiative at the Newhouse School is getting fit for a good cause - students are walking and running to serve the dual goals of raising their fitness level AND raise funds for heart disease and stroke research and education.

Lunes Saludable Nutrition Class at Head Start

Mary DiGiorgi, 2004 Health Communications Scholar and MPH student at the Mailman School of Public Health, launched the first in a series of nutrition and cooking classes for parents and children at the La Peninsula Head Start in the Bronx. "We all enjoy learning when we can 'eat the words'" says DiGiorgi.

The Mailman School of Public Health and Healthy Monday at the Frontline

Many people want, and need, to eat less, weigh less, exercise more, increase fitness level, stop smoking.but "dreams" without tangible plans remain unfulfilled. In fact, a review by experts at the Mailman School indicates that lack of structural support for a healthy lifestyle is among primary reasons that people are unable to initiate and sustain healthful practices.

Columbia Delivers Weekly Monday Tips to Morningside Campus

Now Columbia University students, faculty and staff get Monday alerts to stay on track. Health Services sends weekly Healthy Monday tips to its registered 100 M.I.L.E. (Minutes I Logged Exercising) Club members, whose participants aim to spend at least 100 minutes per week doing physical activity.