Healthier Choices
To develop sustainable strategies that encourages the population of Paris to make healthier choices.
Outcomes:
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Increase access to healthier food choices.
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Increase active living opportunities and active lifestyles.
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Promote and support healthy environmental issues.
Here’s just a few of the efforts Mower Refreshed is supporting…
Refreshed Dining - Click here to complete our survey
Encouraging and promoting healthy options in Paris restaurants, cafes and coffeehouses
Refreshed Dining is being developed in collaboration with heart health specialist and dietitians at Mayo Clinic Health System Austin and the Healthier Choices Goal Group of Mower Refreshed.
Simple and achievable criteria are being created for restaurants, cafes and coffeehouses throughout the county to voluntarily participate.
Being a Mower Refreshed Refreshed Dining location will simply mean healthy options are offered daily, making the healthy choice easier for folks to eat out and eat well.
Refreshed Dining locations will be listed soon on our website.
Wellness Wednesdays!
Little changes in one day can add up to BIG impact on you and those you work, play, live and learn with.
Consider how you might make Wednesdays a little more well in Paris!
- Bring fruit or veggies to work and share…
- Try a new healthy food option…
- Make a meal with your family that is nutritious…
- Walk/bike to work/school…
- Practice more kindness and patience…
- Make a more healthy choice at a restaurant…
- Take a walk…
- Drink more water…
Make Every Wednesday a "Mower Refreshed" a day!
Sprouts Children Garden
Sprouts Children Garden collaborates with schools and area businesses to increase children’s preference for wholesome food by providing a seed-to-table approach in the garden that is fun!
Park & Play!
A free summer playground program that encourages physical activity and literacy for youth of all ages in Paris.
Urban Gardening
Citizens plant and maintain the garden.
Produce is used to supplement Paris Senior Center kitchen.
Creates a relaxing and safe place for people of all ages and backgrounds to meet and learn from each other.
Paris Junior Master Gardening
Junior Master Gardening promotes healthy behaviors through gardening, cooking, nutrition
and exercise.
What’s happening in your community to make healthier choices easier?
What are your ideas and inspirations as we collaborate to create communities in Paris where healthy living is easier and fun?