APRIL 20, 2006

Wanna Play Doctor?

If you have ever fantasized about being a doctor or would just love to learn more about the human body, here’s your chance!  Register now for the Morehouse School of Medicine Mini-medical School.  The classes begin on April 25th and are held on Tuesdays from 7PM until 9PM for seven weeks.  To register, go to www.msm.edu and click on April 25 Mini-medical School or call Nakisha Harris at 404.756.8908.  Please register early.

Reduce Your Risk for Breast Cancer through Exercise

A growing stack of research finds that activity really does protect against breast cancer. The encouraging details:

• Among 567 women, exercisers were 35 percent less likely than non-exercisers to develop breast carcinoma in situ (BCIS), a precancerous condition, University of Southern California researchers say.
• A Yale study of 570 women found that those who exercised the most had the lowest amounts of dense breast tissue. (Dense tissue could be a risk factor for cancer because it may contain more actively growing glandular tissue.)

See into the future

Go to Your Disease Risk to assess your chance of developing 12 types of cancer, including ovarian, breast, and colon. After the interactive tool estimates your risk, you'll get personalized tips for prevention.

Join us in the Race for the Cure

There’s still time to sign up to participate in the Komen Atlanta Race for the Cure on Saturday, May 13.  The 5K route winds through Atlantic Station.  Additional plans for race day also include a jazzercise aerobic warm-up, one-mile walk through the shops and parks in Atlantic Station and an awards and breast cancer survivor recognition ceremony.  If you’d like to walk with the Health Initiative team, email us at info@thehealthinitiative.org.

Shout Out!

We send a big Shout Out to Andrea Fox and the team at EPIC IT for hosting the Health Initiative’s table at the 2006 HRC Dinner.  Tickets are still available for the dinner, to be held Saturday, May 13.  Click here for more info or visit www.hrc.org, and click on Georgia under Your Community tab.

Another Shout Out goes to Frenesa Hall and the members of the WALK Band, who hosted and entertained a crowd at a Health Initiative House Party this past Sunday.  If you can, go hear WALK yourself at the Red Light Café on April 21st at 7:30. Frenesa, a Health Initiative Board member, asked us to thank the following for their support, as well:

• MobileMedicine.Net (www.mobile-medicine.net)
• Debbie Bowman of Blue Sky Real Estate Group for hosting the event (www.blueskyatl.com)
• Tanya Edwards-Mollinelli of the Midtown Atlanta Wellness Center for sponsoring the event (www.midtownatlantawellness.com )
• Lisa Robbins, MD for sponsoring the event (www.robbinshealthalliance.com)
• Dawn Warner for sponsoring the event (www.skinandbodyharmony.com)