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Attention, Caregivers: New Wellness Guidelines are Available for Alaska’s Young Children
About 1 out of 3 Alaska children is overweight or obese. It’s important to prevent unhealthy weight gain at a young age. Along with families, child care and early education providers can play a big role in helping Alaska’s youngest children grow up at a healthy...
Three Keys to Managing Your Stress Every Day
Stress, in small doses, is helpful, or even necessary. However, too much stress has adverse consequences on our bodies, productivity and mindset. Simple, easy solutions can however help us keep our stress at a reasonable level, and reduce it when it gets too high....
Local Nonprofit Offers Unique Experiences, Classes, Support and More on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
This month Alaska Health Fair, Inc. is highlighting the Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska. Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska is a state wide non-profit with five offices around the state. Joan Adams, the Educational Specialist at the Fairbanks office, has been an exhibitor...
Same Great Offerings, Plus New Tests
Alaska Health Fair is a nonprofit, delivering health fairs statewide for the past 37 years. In addition to health education, AHF is famous for its affordable quality blood tests. We work with PAML, one of the top ranking laboratories in the Nation. Blood tests are...
Upcoming School Health & Wellness Institute to Focus on Healthy, Successful Students
The 12th Annual School Health & Wellness Institute (SHWI) will be held Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2017, at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage. Registration is free and is required to attend. This three-day institute provides professional development to educators on all...
Walking – the Ideal Exercise to Get Rid of Stress
Experts agree that walking is a great exercise. This is especially true if you are stressed out. If you are experiencing stress or would just like to get in shape, read this article. It will give you 7 great reasons to start walking today. When I was a kid, walking...
United Way Presents Alaska Health Fair with the Agency Impact Award!
The annual United Way of the Tanana Valley Celebration Breakfast was held on April 7th at Ravn’s Landing in Fairbanks. During the event, various announcements are made and awards presented to major campaign donors and others who provided strong support for the current...
Stress and Our Health
Stress may be affecting our health and we do not even realize it. Stress can affect our body, mood and behavior. Recognizing the symptoms of stress is important and gives us a head start on learning to manage them. Long term stress can contribute to health problems...
Spruce Your Environment, Spruce Your Spirit
After a long winter, this is the time of year to spruce up your environment with a good Spring Cleaning. It’s amazing what doing this can do for one’s state of mind. Not only does a good spring cleaning seem to lift our spirits, it has actually been proven to preserve...
Someone special visited our office
We were pleasantly surprised to have a very special visitor at our Fairbanks office on Valentine’s Day... Someone who is a local, national and international celebrity.... - Santa Claus! Yes, we said “Santa Claus!” Santa called up our office and made an appointment to...