A common concern in going Meatless Monday is how to get enough protein. To address this, Meatless Monday teamed up with Johns Hopkins CLF to create the "Plant Protein Power" campaign. This campaign includes posters, social media graphics, GIFs and a list of frequently asked questions. This can be used by organizations as part of their wellness programs.
The American Heart Association will kick off Move More Month to rally everyone – individuals, friends and families, neighborhoods, communities, schools, and workplaces to join together and move for health, fun and togetherness. To keep up the momentum after Move More Month, the Monday Mile is a great way to kick off each week by moving and getting exercise. Some strategies for getting started with during Move More Month are included as well.
High school students from underserved communities aspiring to become future chefs faced a challenge recently in the nationwide 2018 Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Meatless Monday Recipe Contest. Winners have been announced and will receive scholarships to attend college for culinary education.
Individuals, even carnivores who abstain from meat, have the opportunity to experience a wonderful variety of plant-based foods during Lent. There’s no need to sacrifice flavor. Kim O’Donnel, the first Meatless Monday blogger and author of critically acclaimed cookbooks shares tips and a tasty recipe.
New Year’s resolutions include quitting smoking on the top of the list. Despite their strong resolve, many smokers who quit on New Year’s will be puffing away by Groundhog’s Day. How can smokers break the pattern of failure? Research shows that Monday is an ideal “recommit day” because people are most open to healthy behavior, including quitting smoking.
High school students from underserved communities aspiring to become future celebrity chefs will face a challenge from the nationwide 2018 Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Meatless Monday Recipe Contest. The challenge: create an innovative meatless grains dish and impress the distinguished panel of judges.
The new Meatless Monday Restaurant and Foodservice Implementation Guides are ideal resources for right now as trends show that consumers are increasingly seeking plant-based dishes. The guides provide restaurant and foodservice operators guidance to help start and promote a Meatless Monday program, while keeping meat on their menus.
HealthGuru.com, the expert-driven consumer health site, and The Monday Campaigns, a non-profit public health organization associated with Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Syracuse universities are working together to bring a message of wellness and empowerment to an ever-widening circle of health-conscious Americans. Every Monday, HealthGuru.com will feature on its home page a revolving set of informational videos and text about a Monday initiative.
In honor of AHA’s National Walking Day on April 5, Dr. Laura Sperazza, Director of Low Vision Services at Lighthouse Guild in NY, offers tips for walking a Monday Mile for individuals with low vision. The Monday Mile, an initiative of The Monday Campaigns, encourages people from all walks of life to walk for their health by using Monday as the starting day.
Super Bowl champion Roland aims to call attention to the needs of underserved youth and their families. He works with celeb chef Danny Boome, and teaching artist for Young Audiences of Rochester Michelle Cardulla. They partner to inspire kids to move from fast foods to plant foods with Meatless Monday.
Research shows that only 8% of people making New Year’s resolutions end up achieving them each year. Some health experts believe a more effective approach would be to follow New Year’s with a recommit strategy that capitalizes on the natural momentum of the weekly cycle.
The 2017 nationwide Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Meatless Monday Recipe Contest will challenge high school students from underserved communities, aspiring to become future celebrity chefs, to create innovative meatless noodle dishes. They will need to impress a distinguished panel of judges.
The Quit & Stay Quit Monday goal is to use this year’s Great American Smokeout as the kickoff to kick the habit. In the weeks that follow, QSQM stands ready to provide proven tobacco cessation tips and tools to help quitters stay smoke free through the holidays and into the New Year. These resources are available for free at: www.quitmonday.org.
The World Health Summit 2016 is endorsing Meatless Monday. WHS’ endorsement fits in with the summit’s session on “Planetary Health” that will explore the long-term health implications of changes in the environment caused for example through their effects on food and agriculture.
On May 31st, the World Health Organization hopes to spur the nearly one billion smokers worldwide to put down their cigarettes for World No Tobacco Day. While this annual event generates media attention and is a potential starting point for many quit attempts, without a sustained effort these smokers will likely be puffing away again in a matter of weeks. Researchers say that one way to keep the momentum going after this once-a-year push to get smokers’ attention, is to use every Monday as a weekly opportunity to support smokers in their efforts to quit and stay quit.
The Lerner Centers for Public Health Promotion at Syracuse, Johns Hopkins and Columbia universities all participate in the Monday Mile program. The Monday Mile is part of The Monday Campaigns, a nonprofit organization, which dedicates the first day of every week to health. The organization offers a free Monday Mile Starter Kit and resources for workplaces, campuses and community groups to start their own program.
You're invited to chat with Caregiver Monday & CareGiving.com every Monday beginning Monday, March 28th. The event takes place from 11 A.M. EST - 3 P.M. EST. Our Caring Lunch Hour Chat is open to anyone who cares for or has cared for a family member or friend with a chronic illness, disease or disability. To join the Caring Lunch Hour discussion, go to CareGiving.com and click the orange “chat” button on the home page.
Diana Rice, a registered dietitian on staff with The Monday Campaigns (the nonprofit organization behind Meatless Monday), offers these tips to get your health back on track after an indulgent Super Bowl Sunday.
Public health experts think the key to success to turn our New Year’s resolutions into reality is to bring the “fresh start” mindset of the beginning of the year to the beginning of every week. Research conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that Monday is akin to a “mini-New Year.” Reinforcing this “fresh start” Monday mindset with weekly cues and reminders can be a powerful tool in helping people sustain healthy behaviors over time.
The connection of meat consumption to climate change is not garnering the serious attention it deserves at the Paris climate talks. Representatives from 15 Meatless Monday countries including USA, Israel, Korea, Denmark, France, Italy, Nigeria, Jamaica and Kuwait, will join leading scientists, politicians and chefs at a session at COP21. Their goal: To underline the link between meat and climate change, and the impact that simple changes in our diet, like going meatless one day a week, can make in slowing global warming. http://www.meatlessmonday.com/paris/
Quit and Stay Quit Monday (QSQM) and The Great American Smokeout are combating the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States. On Thursday, November 19th the 39th annual Great American Smokeout celebrates smokers kicking the habit. Research shows smokers are most successful when they have continued support. Using weekly words of encouragement and accessible free materials, QSQM helps guide clients to success throughout the quitting process.
End the season on a positive note and stay safe while having fun and doing the Monday Mile in the summer sun. Fitness experts offer tips.
The Monday Campaigns announces the publication of "Meatless Monday Goes to School" -- a beautifully designed, free collection of 30 meatless lunch recipes to help K-12 foodservice directors and community advocates implement the Meatless Monday initiative in schools. The e-cookbook addresses the need of K-12 schools for delicious vegetarian recipes that fulfill the meat/meat alternate component of the National School Lunch Program’s (NSLP) meal pattern.
Introducing a non-hormonal intra-vaginal ring for contraception – a novel approach to contraception – a multipurpose preventation technology (MPT) for women’s reproductive and sexual health.
LIU has adopted “I Love New York Water,” an initiative of the Monday Campaigns, which fosters healthy agendas on college campuses across the nation. Campus constituents signed pledges to forego bottled water, opting for economical and eco-friendly refillable water bottles that can be topped off at any of the dozens of water refill stations on campuses.
Quit & Stay Quit Monday helps quitters take advantage of 52 chances a year to quit for good. Individuals can join Quit & Stay Quit on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to access free tips and stay connected with the support community.
Caregiver Monday, an initiative of the nonprofit Monday Campaigns, emphasizes that key to staying healthy is for caregivers to carve out a dedicated time at the beginning of each week to focus on the tools they need to keep their healthy habits consistent. Diana Rice, registered dietitian for The Monday Campaigns, offers strategies to stay healthy:
According to a recent study published online by The Journal of Pediatrics, adolescents who participated in even one or two family meals per week were less likely to be overweight or obese in adulthood as compared to adolescents who never participated in family meals. The Kids Cook Monday, a national nonprofit campaign, aims to help parents incorporate family meals at least once a week by offering a variety of free online resources. The latest is The Family Dinner Date, an easy-to-navigate e-cookbook featuring recipes that parents and kids can easily prepare together.
April 7th marks the beginning of National Public Health Week. This event, held by the American Public Health Association (APHA), will take a close look at a few key areas of public health via daily themes, starting with child health. Because good nutrition is so essential to child development and the prevention of childhood obesity, the APHA has recommended that public health professionals take the opportunity to encourage parents and childcare providers to engage children in healthy eating behaviors. The Monday Campaigns’ Kids Cook Monday, founded on the concept that healthy eating behaviors start with learning basic nutrition knowledge and cooking skills in the home, is lending support by offering a new resource, the Family Dinner Date newsletter to teach children about healthy eating through cooking nutritious foods together at home.
Meatless Monday is offering a new, free e-cookbook: We ♡ Comfort Food: Heart-Healthy Meatless Monday Recipes. Heart-healthy fruits, veggies and whole grains are major stars in the recipes. All have been analyzed by Diana Rice, Meatless Monday’s staff registered dietitian, to ensure they meet heart-healthy guidelines for sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol content.
Instead of encouraging smokers to plan one quit attempt around New Year’s, which comes only once a year, experts believe a better strategy would be to follow a New Year’s quit with a weekly recommitment to quit that takes advantage of natural weekly cycles. In a 2013 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that Mondays acted like a “mini-New Year’s” in terms of the numbers of people going online to search for help in quitting smoking. Every week, there was a spike in Google searches for “quit smoking,” demonstrating that people are more open to quitting on Mondays than other days of the week.
Caregiver Monday is sharing survey results about caregivers neglecting their health during November, National Family Caregivers Month. The NFCM’s goals are to celebrate, educate, and raise awareness about the issues surrounding caregiving.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host a Scientific Symposium on October 17th in honor of the 10th anniversary of Meatless Monday, a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns founded in 2003 by New York ad man and health advocate Sid Lerner and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.
The Caregiving Club has been honored by Caregiver Reviews for its web site content, especially its weekly video tips on caregiver self-care, the Me Time Monday℠ videos created in support of the Caregiver Monday campaign. Caregiver Reviews analyzes online sites which help caregivers improve their quality of life and chose CaregivingClub.com as its first honored review. Michael Neuvirth of Caregiver Reviews calls Caregiving Club.com and its Me Time Monday videos, “MTV for Caregivers…the site has the best videos for caregivers we have seen and I believe Caregiving Club is pioneering how to best use video to help caregivers.”
To help increase the chances of long-term success, Quit & Stay Quit Monday offers free and unique tools and materials to help smokers kick the habit and stay quit for good. Quitters and tobacco cessation groups can now access six months of stop-smoking tips as well as promotional posters at mondaycampaigns.org/stay-quit/.
Three talented young chefs were announced as the winners of the 2013 Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Meatless Monday Chili Recipe Contest. To see the winning recipes with photos, visit http://www.meatlessmonday.com/c-cap-chili-contest-press-resources.
National expert on family caregiving Sherri Snelling, author of a new book, A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care (Balboa Press), says even those with famous names and faces struggle with the demands of caring for loved ones. Her book offers three distinct sections – the first features the author’s interviews with celebrities. The second section gives expert advice to help readers see the big picture of the caregiving role they face. The final section is dedicated to self-care and how to have the difficult caregiving conversation with a loved one. Snelling also discusses how to conquer the caregiving traps of increased stress, burn-out, guilt and depression through the Me Time Monday℠ weekly videos, in support of the non-profit Caregiver Monday initiative.
On the first Friday of each February, The American Heart Association (AHA) urges Americans to wear red to raise awareness about women’s heart health. Each year, women from all walks of life heed the call, donning AHA’s Go Red for Women pin, red outfits and accessories. Yet after Go Red Day, many women once again forget to take action for heart health. This dangerous lack of awareness is why the Healthy Monday initiative is urging Americans to go beyond Go Red Day and sport something red every Monday.
With the New Year swiftly approaching, now is the time to start thinking about what you’d like to change in 2013. Learn more about how you can stick to your resolutions one Monday at a time. Get 52 Healthy Monday Tips.
With research showing that smokers are most receptive to quit messages on Monday, the non-profit Quit & Stay Quit Monday campaign offers free tools and social media resources to help smokers quit leading up to New Year’s and stay quit every Monday thereafter.
November marks National Family Caregivers Month, a time to acknowledge family caregivers and the vital role they fulfill. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the efforts of family caregivers and provide them support. To help serve them, Caregiver Monday was established in 2011 by The Monday Campaigns, a nonprofit organization in association with Johns Hopkins, Syracuse and Columbia Universities. It recommends that family caregivers set aside time for themselves each week. Caregiver Monday offers its Resource Kit at www.mondaycampaigns.org/caregivers-monday/
The Monday Campaigns, a nonprofit initiative backed by leading public health schools, will roll out nationally its award-winning “Man Up Monday” campaign at the APHA. It uses provocative images like flaming boxer shorts to encourage sexually active men to “man up” and get tested. The campaign is directed at making men more aware of such issues as condom use and getting regular check-ups for HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
The Monday Campaigns and Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future announced the results of a national survey that suggest how Meatless Monday can be an effective tool to meet this challenge.
ZisBoomBah, a Let's Move! award-winning game developer and leader in making food fun for families, is working with non-profit public health initiative The Kids Cook Monday to integrate weekly cooking prompts into their already popular gaming platform. ZisBoomBah has incorporated Kids Cook Monday quests into their “Challenger Calendar”, a free online score-based game that lets children and parents set health and nutrition goals.
Mardi Gras, also called Carnival, celebrates the last day of indulgence before the start of the Lenten season. During Lent, millions of households will cut back on meat and other rich foods. Meatless Monday offers recipes with photos to help observers through the “lean” weeks of Lent and beyond. With the simplicity of Meatless Monday, reducing meat in our diets is easier than you think and the health benefits can be huge.
The Healthy Monday initiative urges Americans to go beyond Go Red Day and sport something red every Monday. Making red visible on Mondays can help sound the alarm and keep heart health ever present in the lives of American women.
Nearly 45 percent of Americans will make New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, many of us will fall off after the first week. If you’re one of those individuals, the Monday strategy could increase your odds for success: Make Monday the day to recommit to your resolutions with 52 Healthy Monday Tips.
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