Cancer: Grantsmanship Workshop March 24-25

Grantsmanship Workshop

Diabetes: The number of Americans with diabetes rises to 25.8 million

1 of 3 U.S. adults is at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Get the facts about diabetes in the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet.

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/factsheet11.htm

Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new estimates.   Further, an estimated 79 million U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be  considered diabetes.  Prediabetes raises a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Diabetes affects 8.3 percent of all Americans, and 11.3 percent of adults aged 20 years and older, according to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet.  About 27 percent of those with diabetes – 7 million Americans – do not know they have the disease.  Prediabetes affects 35 percent of adults aged 20 years and older.

Cancer: Women’s Cancer Conference – Feb. 22nd

Women’s Cancer Conference

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conference registration

Listen to Wayne Tormala’s KXXT 1010 interview

Wayne Tormala was a guest on Fred Taylor’s Men’s Health segment on January 27th. The topic was chew tobacco and the upcoming Through with Chew week in February. To listen to the entire show broadcast on KXXT, visit this link.

Through with Chew week begins February 21st.

Thinking of quitting tobacco, chew too? The Arizona’s Smokers’ Helpline can help you quit Chew Too! Call the ASHLine at 1 800-55-66-222 or visit http://www.ASHLine.org. Our quit coaches help you break your addiction to nicotine whether you smoke or chew and they will stick by you every step of the way. Please pass this along to anybody you may know who is looking to quit any form of tobacco use.

ADHS Hiring: Wellness & Physical Activity Coordinator

Please see and forward the announcement below to any interested parties. This postion is a part of the Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Open until filled

THE POSITION: The Wellness and Physical Activity Coordinator will lead and direct statewide work site wellness and physical activity programs including the administration of more than $500,000 in local contracts for physical activity programs, develop effective collaborative efforts with internal and external partners to promote physical activity, utilize public health data to develop and prioritize policy and community-based interventions to promote physical activity and work-site wellness, translate physical activity guidelines and recommendation to inform, and serve as a technical expert in the are of exercise physiology and related exercise science in public health setting.