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Know Your Numbers - Know Your Risk: 10 Great Ideas for Promoting National Cholesterol Education Month (2007 National Cholesterol Education Month Kit)

Know your cholesterol numbers - know your risk - give yourself some TLC

10 Great Ideas for Promoting
National Cholesterol Education Month 2007

Here are some great ideas that you can adapt and apply to fit the needs of your program.

1.

Make it easy for people to access the booklet, Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol With TLC (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes):

  • Download the booklet from the NHLBI website – http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/chol/chol_tlc.htm

  • Distribute hard copies of the NHLBI Health Information Center order form so those without internet access can obtain the booklet – http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/infoctr/ic_ordr.htm

2.

Encourage your family, friends, and coworkers to have their cholesterol checked. Hand out the Chart your progress - Reach your goal worksheet so they can record their cholesterol numbers.

3.

Contact your worksite health and fitness center and/or local congregation and ask them to cosponsor a cholesterol screening fair.

4.

Send out a broadcast email with a link to the 10-year Risk Calculator. Encourage everyone to know their cholesterol numbers and to know their risk for heart disease.

5.

Send out a weekly e-mail about preventing heart disease that contains a link to the Lifestyle Section of the Live Healthier, Live Longer Web page.

6.

Decorate a bulletin board in your facility using the theme "Know Your Cholesterol Numbers—Know Your Risk—Give Yourself Some TLC." Post various cholesterol resources and educational flyers on the board.

7.

Hand out Simple Steps to Help Reduce Your Risk.

8.

Set aside 30 minutes each Monday afternoon during Cholesterol Month to participate in a group walk around your building or neighborhood. Try to repeat this 30-minute stroll on your own on most days of the week.

9.

Sponsor a best recipe contest. See who can prepare the best tasting, low saturated fat, low cholesterol dish. Award a $10 grocery store gift certificate to the top three winners. (Ask the grocery store to donate the gift certificate). Get started with some of these heart healthy recipes.

10.

 Coordinate with your local grocery store and a local dietitian to give a grocery store tour demonstrating how to read food labels and choose heart healthy foods

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Archived page, reproduced from a 2007 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.