WHAT IS W.E.I.G.H. TO GO?
- Weight Control
- Eating Right
- Increasing Exercise
- Getting Fit and
- Heart Healthy
Crossworks through a grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering FREE health screenings and a series of educational classes dealing with reduction and self-management of heart disease risk among African Americans in Nash, Edgecombe, and Halifax counties.
High blood pressure affects mostly blacks (40% more than whites) and African Americans are 29% more likely to die from heart disease than whites.
The classes will help participants gain a better understanding of the role that such factors as nutrition, obesity, diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure) and high blood cholesterol play in the causing heart attacks and strokes and how to make personal lifestyle changes to help prevent them. Participants will receive printed material from the American Heart Association.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Anyone 18 years of age or older living in Edgecombe, Nash, and Halifax counties.
WILL THE PROGRAM COST ME ANYTHING?
There is no actual fee for participating in the program screenings or classes. We will however, request a one-time donation per participant to help cover some of the program costs.
WHEN AND WHERE WILL THE FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE?
Saturday, Feb. 25th (9:00 - 1:00)
Rocky Mount, NC*
Saturday, May 6th (9:00 - 1:00)
Rocky Mount, NC*
*BOTH PRE AND POST SCREENINGS
NOTE: YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE. CALL 446-6964 OR ONE OF THE CHURCH LOCATIONS LISTED BELOW TO PRE-REGISTER. IF YOU REGISTER FOR THE SCREENING, YOU WOULD BE AGREEING TO ATTEND THE SIX (6) WEIGH TO GO CLASSES AND ALSO UNDERGO A POST-SCREENING (TO BE SCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE).
WHEN AND WHERE WILL THE CLASSES BE HELD?
Classes will meet in the following locations beginning in early to mid-March 2006:
Edgecombe/Nash County :
Conetoe Chapel MB Church
205 Factory St.
Conetoe, NC
Contact: (252) 641-5020
Morningstar Church of Christ
225 S. Glendale Ave.
Rocky Mount, NC
Contact: 442-3079
Ebenezer Baptist Church
652 Raleigh Road
Rocky Mount, NC
Contact: 446-2378
St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church
900 Lloyd Street
Tarboro, NC
Contact: (252) 823-4483
Olive Chapel Baptist Church
P.O. Box 1455
Sharpsburg, NC
Contact: (252) 972-2229
Halifax County:
Tabernacle of Victory and Deliverance Worship Center, Inc
27245 Hwy 125 Hobgood Hwy
Scotland Neck, NC
Contact: (252) 826-6502
OR CALL: (252) 446-6964 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER.
SUPPORTED BY
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
® Registered Mark of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an independent licensee
of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. The Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is a licensed affiliate of Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
