FOR THOSE who are interested in
improving their health in the New
Year, health promotion and
education is the theme of an up-
coming fair at Park Royal.

The three-day Health and
Fitness Fair is scheduled to run
Jan. 9 to 11 in both north and
south malls of the West Vancouver
shopping centre and is being co-
sponsored by Park Royal Shopp-
ing Centre and West Vancouver-
based fitness consultant and
educator Sue Hills.

In addition, Wellness in Your
Life, a free lecture series, is sched-
uled to be held Wednesday at 8
p.m. from Jan. 7 to 28 as part of a
combined Wellness Month and
open house at the Sue Hills Fitness
Centre, 2002 Park Royal, South
Mall.

Thirty participants, representing
health and government organiza-
tions and businesses, will provide
information at the educational fair

Slim down
after Xmas

THE YMCA is ready to help all
‘those having made new resolutions

oh te lose weight. :

cight:.is “a. weight. manage-:

ment program “developed’ by “the:

physical and health professionals
of the YMCA. It is a 10-week pro-
gram: that meets twice per week;
the: first session is free. Partici-
pants decide after the first night:
whether they will continue with the
program.

A free introductory session is

being held at the North Vancouver _

Family -YMCA, . 440 Hendry
Avenue, on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 7

p.m .
__ ¥-Weight takes - a multi-model

‘approach - to the goal of weight
* loss; recognizing that weight loss
involves lifestyle changes in many
_ areas — not just eating — and that
losing weight is only half the bat-
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Participants will receive a nutri-
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nutrition education, fitness and

- stress information. As an integral

part of the program, there is 30
’ minutes of exercise in each class.
For more information, call
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on topics ranging from proper
footwear for exercise and recre-
ational activities to a variety of
general and specific health-related
subjects.

Exhibitors include the B.C.
Medical Association, the Regis-
tered Nurses’ Association of B.C.,
the College of Dental Surgeons,
the B.C. Psychological Associa-
tion, the North Shore Health
Unit, the B.C. Cancer Society, the
B.C. Recreation and Parks
Association, the Physiotherapy
Association of B.C., the B.C.
Dairy Foundation and Whistler
Health and Fitness Resort.

Topics and speakers scheduled
for the Wellness in Your Life series
include Back Care by Eleanor
Vuorinen of the Physiotherapy
Clinic; The Next Step by Chris
Harris of Pathways Tour Com-
pany; Peak Performance by Dr.
Doug Clement of the B.C. Sports
Medicine Clinic; and Calcium and

th fair promotes

Bone Health presented by Jill
Ackhurst of the B.C. Dairy Foun-
dation.

Hills, an award-winning fitness
professional active in the national
and provincial as well as the local
scene, developed the idea for the
health promotion push as a result
of her involvement on the steering
committee of the Canadian Sum-
mit on Fitness which was spon-
sored by the federal government
last June.

“Delegates,’’ Hills says, ‘‘were
given the challenge of involving
health care and fitness profes-
sionals, government agencies and
business in a joint effort to en-
courage individual Canadians to
assume responsibility for achieving
and maintaining an optimum level
of well-being through regular exer-
cise and good health practices.

‘And the new, broader defini-
tion of fitness or health is a state
of total well-being — physical,

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Hills is a frequent speaker at
health and fitness forums
throughout Canada.

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