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Put your health first – Choose You

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The American Cancer Society wants to shine a spotlight on a sobering statistic: one in three women will get cancer in her lifetime! I’ve lost two family members just in the past year. My aunt to colorectal cancer, and my grandpa to pancreatic cancer… and my grandma is dying of peritoneal cancer. Cancer sucks.

BUT did you know that about half of all cancer deaths could be prevented if people maintained a healthy weight through diet and regular exercise; avoided tobacco products; and got recommended cancer screening tests? As busy moms know, it’s not always easy to incorporate these healthy behaviors into a busy lifestyle! In fact, a new national survey of approximately 2,000 women ages 25-64 revealed that they are so busy being caretakers of others, they have little time to take care of their own health. I can relate.

To encourage women to put their own health first in the fight against cancer, the American Cancer Society has just launched the Choose You movement, which empowers women with the tools, tips and motivation to put their health first and make healthy lifestyle changes. Choose You reaches women nationwide online, at work, in stores and around the community, providing them with the tools they need to make personal health a priority. By committing to their health, these women will be better able to care for their families and serve as role models for their children, families, and friends.

When asked to pick one day to focus on themselves and their health each year, the majority of women (65%) chose their birthday. I would, too. I just celebrated a birthday the day before yesterday, in fact, and am hoping I’m lucky enough to see many, many more. By empowering women with the tools and resources to take care of themselves and help prevent cancer, the Choose You movement is another way the American Cancer Society — the official sponsor of birthdays — is helping to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Join the Choose You movement by logging onto ChooseYou.com and making a commitment to reach a personal health goal.

Giveaway is closed. Winners have been contacted and are listed here.

As a way to inspire women to take action and put their health first, the American Cancer Society would like to offer one of my readers a Choose You Healthy Lifestyle gift set, which includes a Choose You stainless water bottle, lapel pin, and t-shirt (pictured below), a couple of pens, a hair clip, Neutrogena AgeShield +repair 55 SPF Sunblock, valuable Sprite Zero coupons, and a Walgreens gift card (Sprite Zero and Walgreens are the national sponsors of Choose You. They share the American Cancer Society’s goal of educating women about Choose You and the simple steps they can take to maintain a healthy lifestyle and help prevent cancer.) This set would be a great gift for yourself or a loved one.

To enter to win, please leave a comment tell me which healthy habit you most want to adopt right now (i.e. eat right, get fit, stop smoking, protect your skin, get regular health checks).

For extra entries:

  • Subscribe to my feed by feed reader or email (or let me know if you already do).
  • Tweet about this giveaway (one time): Choose you! Enter to win a ‘healthy lifestyle’ gift set, provided by the American Cancer Society – https://tinyurl.com/choose-u — (Follow me on Twitter @OhMariana!)
  • Link to me in your sidebar or blog roll. Feel free to grab my button (at the bottom of the page).

I was provided with the information above, a gift bag for myself, and another for giveaway, by The American Cancer Society. Contest ends June 18th, 2010 11:59 pm EST. US entries only, one person per household. Leave a separate comment per entry & a valid email address. Winner, chosen at random, has 3 days to claim their prize.

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  1. The healthy habit I want to adopt right now is getting back to exercising daily.

  7. I want to quite the sugary drinks! No more soda!
    six_one_nine_girlie86 (at) yahoo (dot) com

  8. The healthy habit I need to adopt is regular exercise.
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  9. I subscribe by email
    ajolly1456 at gmail dot com
    .-= Anne´s last blog ..Whole Golden Flax Seed – Review & Giveaway =-.

  11. I really do live a healthy style but there is always room for improvement. I would like to get better about the foods I eat. I have a terrible sweet tooth. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway

  20. I’ve been trying to get fit! I’m determined to lose the “baby weight.” 🙂

  24. I need to adopt taking better care of my skin, by using sunscreen on a regular basis

  26. I need to change my eating habits (I say as I drink a big ol sugary glass of chocolate milk for breakfast….)
    yeloechikee at hotmail dot com

  28. My sister is an 8 yr survivor of stage 4 non-hodgkin’s lymphoma. She keeps on going. She inspires me to keep going and I exercise at least 30 min each day. I have had my own battle against DVT so i try to exercise each day.

  46. I quit smoking so now I would love to try to get more water into my lifestyle!

  49. I have lost 18 lbs over the last few months. What has helped is that I have cut back on sugar/fats. I would like to lose more weight and start excersing more

  64. I’m definitely working on eating better. Exercise has improved with the summer months beginning but stress eating is a killer.

  67. As two time cancer survivor (cervical and colon/rectal) I would like to add a note. Both of my cancers were amenable to treatment because both were caught early because of my ongoing habit of routine screenings and self exams. Just as diet and life style are important so are screenings and only serve to demonstrate that we are our first line of defense against cancer. One other point I would like to make, I have learned a lot about cancer over the years and one that is sorely unmentioned is testicular cancer in young men. As the mother of two sons I have made it a sort of mission to rag on them and their friends about self exams. Breast self exams have become the thing to do and one would hope that testicular self exams can be made so among young men especially, who are more prone to the disease. I will be a quarter of a century old this year and have already had my yearly mammogram and pap smear (pap smears are important even is one does not have a cervex to detect vaginal cancers)and will have a colonoscopy in a couple of months (after having colon/rectal cancers colonoscopys are the main line of defense). Not a lot of fun but certainly most important.

  69. The healthy habit I want to adopt right now is to get more sleep than I do.

  70. I would love to be able to stop eating (and buying) potato chips and other snacks that aren’t good for me.

  74. Eating right and getting fit. Thanks so much for this wonderful giveaway.
    rickpeggysmith(at)aol(dot)com

  77. My health habit this year
    is a hard one to break—
    but I’m staying out of the sun
    so my tan is now FAKE!

  80. As a breast cancer survivor, I have learned how important it is to take care of my health. But the area I still struggle with is getting enough exercise. That is the area I’m working on this summer.

  82. If I can only choose one, I’d say “Get Fit”, but like most of us, I think I could use improvements in all areas.

  87. I have een working hard at eating right and drinking water as well as walking. I really need to incorporate more exercise though to keep my joints healthy.

    Christine
    dazed1821@AOL.COM

  88. oh my! Where do I start. I want to lose weight, get in shape, eat right… I really do. I said all of this after I had my daughter a year ago. It’s time to quit talking and do it. I joined today!

  89. I joined via email. I hope I win, I think it would be incentive if I seen the logo often.

  90. I need to eat right! I’m GF and I tend to eat crap to make up for the stuff I can’t eat.

  92. I want to eat better, less processed carbs and more vegetables. Also, want to drink more water and less sugary drinks.

  98. I must get regular checkups. I haven’t gone to the doc since my friend was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. I know, I am an ostrich.

  100. I lost my dad to melanoma in 1993, and last November, 2 days after my wedding, I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. The healthy habit I have adopted is not tolerating anything which stresses me and could lead to a recurrence. I have learned to make each day really count and do things NOW.

  117. I have been eating better and exercising, but I need to pay closer attention to the ingredient list and really try to cut out all processed foods and foods with things like HFCS.

  121. I need to work out more! I am really struggling with this one! Thanks for the reinforcement.

  124. I am trying to take more vitamins, eat less red meat, more fruits, veggies and beans, and read food labels more closely.

  132. I am TRYING to drink more water and aso WALK more.. I am 2 months pregnant too so i need to stick to this..

  133. I have just started and will continue to do yoga to build strength and flexibility so I won’t get hurt!

  136. I lost my mom 2 months ago to cancer so yes it does suck.. I have quit smoking & started exercising more. Just live your life the best you can & take each day as a gift.

  147. The healthy habit I’d like to adopt is exercising daily. I’d also like to remember to put on sunscreen whenever I go out, but I often forget.
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  152. I’ve been trying to eat right lately. More fruits & veggies, less processed foods.

  156. I most want to be able to visit the Dr. for things I should visit the Dr. for. Not having health insurance worries me alot, especially when simply walking thru the door costs $300 without any tests or prescriptions… it goes up from there! It’d be nice to be able to get physicals for everyone in my family and have some aches and pains checked out, but we don’t have the several thousand dollars it would take without insurance… nor do we have the several thousand dollars it would take to get insurance. Sigh…

  159. I want to get fit. I am trying to get myself motivated to go for a walk everyday. I haven’t reached my goal yet but since the weather go nice I have been out walking several times a week.

  163. I need to cut out the over flow of Diet Coke and chocolate way to much and after going to a eat healthy class I really need the Diet coke out..wow

  167. I really need to start 2 new ones: protect my skin and get regular health checks. I despise the doctor so I haven’t had a health check in years.

  190. I am trying to take better care of my skin and use sunscreen on myself and my family!

  192. Thanks for the giveaway…I need to start using sunscreen every day, like I used to do !

    senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com

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