This week the Inside Track continues a series of interviews with members of the Strategic Advisory Committee of Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and American Heart Association, exploring their various contributions to the fight against childhood obesity.
Citizens of the Navajo Nation like Olivia Roanhorse have long known that good health is more than the sum of its parts.
“Tribal communities take a much larger perspective when they’re thinking about health,” says Roanhorse, a program director at the Albuquerque-based Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation. “Everything is connected; it includes emotional and spiritual components, and they’ve always known that.”
Roanhorse runs the Foundation’s “Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures” program, which seeks to apply a holistic approach to reducing obesity and diabetes among children throughout Indian country.
[For more of this story, written by Donna Brutkoski, go to http://preventobesity.net/inside-track-january-15-c]
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