'Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day'
Diabetes project expo highlights nutrition, health
By Shondiin Silversmith
Navajo Times
ST. MICHAELS, Ariz., March 20, 2014
(Times photos - Donovan Quintero)
TOP: Program specialist with the Navajo Nation Department of Behavioral Health Veronica Garnenez, left, explains how alcohol affects people and pregnant women to Roger Brown from Hunter’s Point, Ariz. on Tuesday at the St. Michaels chapter house in St. Michaels.
MIDDLE:
A chart of the kinds of foods that are healthy and bad for you are displayed on Tuesday at the St. Michaels Chapter house.
BOTTOM:
A doll used to help program specialist with the Navajo Nation Department of Behavioral Health Veronica Garnenez explain the devastating affects of what drinking while pregnant.
"Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day" was the theme for this past Tuesday's expo. Even with a small turnout health educators were ready to talk about ways to improve nutrition.
Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Project Nutritionist Yolanda Bileen said they hosted the expo in honor of National Nutrition Month during the month of March.
"The statistics that we have today, more and more of our people are getting diagnosed with diabetes and we need to put a stop to it one way or another by having health fairs and educating our people," Bileen said.
"They (the community) need to come and participate. Get involved and be motivated."
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