CONTEST: "ARE YOU AMERICA"S HEALTHIEST FAMILY?"

Is your family America’s Healthiest? Tell us why and you could win $500 worth of groceries and a healthy cooking lesson from a personal chef in your hometown.

In 100 words or less, tell us what makes your family healthy. Maybe you play sports together on the weekends or always make time for a home-cooked family meal. Maybe you make time to recycle or have monthly “closet cleanouts”. No matter what it is, we want to know.

How to enter:
Send us a letter with your family’s healthy story to:
Are You America’s Healthiest Family?
c/o Health Marketing
1271 Avenue of the Americas, 20-11
New York, NY 10020

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No purchase necessary. The Are You America’s Healthiest Family contest begins August 21, 2009 and ends September 24, 2009.  Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and those who are at least 19 years of age. Void where prohibited by law. For instructions on how to enter and official rules, go to Health.com/Perks.

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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY JUNE CONTEST WINNER

Congratulations Jean Welch from Lyons, CO!  Health and The American Cancer Society helped Jean Welch celebrate her happy and healthy birthday!  Read Jean’s story below on why her birthday was so meaningful to her.

My “ABC” Birthday by Jean Welch

I was supposed to be happy on this day. How could my 6th birthday be on the same day that I started 1st grade?  We had moved once again and I had no friends yet.  I felt tearful and afraid and didn’t want to go.  My mother said I had no choice and if I wanted to be happy today, I would BE! A MEMORY WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR BEST PRESENT.”

She must have told the teacher because on the blackboard in big letters was:

TODAY IS SEPTEMBER 19TH & JEAN PETERSON’S BIRTHDAY

She had folded a piece of construction paper and BIG letters spelled…

A
Birthday…for Jean
C

and had all the children sign it.  Then she gave me a “pink rose” from the vase on her desk, when my name was called they sang “Happy Birthday.”  I was probably the only one in the class that would be remembered tomorrow and that made me feel “special.”

I thought about that day years late while I was driving to get my After Breast Cancer final report.  You’re never too old to be afraid of a first time experience.  I had no choice but to go.  The last two months had been a whirlwind; the mammogram, the ultrasound, the biopsy, the diagnosis, my first surgery ever and now the moment of truth.  The doctor came in with a big grin waving the ABC report. NO MORE CANCER! I was 6 again and it was my Happy Birthday even though it is June.

I felt like a little girl who had a straight A report card and couldn’t’ wait to get to Boulder to show & tell my daughter Jill at her office.  By the time I hit the freeway, the rain & hail was so heavy, I couldn’t see the car in front of me and pulled off.  I had just beat unbelievable odds and darned sure didn’t want to die in a car wreck.  I smiled thinking that the storm was the C-bomb’s wrath still trying to rattle my cage.  But nothing, not on this day, could steal my JOY.  I showed Jill my prize, we hugged and I headed home to make my GOOD NEWS phone calls.  I stopped by Safeway and bought 3 bunches of pink flowers (2 more than usual) to congratulate myself.  My state of euphoria must have been evident because even the grumpiest people changed their expression to a smile when I walked by.  If they only knew!  I wanted to tell them “IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY…BE.”

My mother was right “A MEMORY IS YOUR BEST PRESENT.”