Photo By Rachel Larue | From left, Pfc. Kimberly Williams, runner up for the nutrition contest, Dr. Whitney...... read more read more
JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. - Staffers at the Andrew Rader U.S. Army Health Clinic on the Fort Myer portion of the joint base were recognized Feb. 27 for participating in the Performance Triad.
The Performance Triad is Surgeon General of the Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho’s answer to help create ready and resilient Soldiers and Army families. It urges both Soldiers and family members to get eight hours of sleep a night, walk at least 10,000 steps a day and eat a healthy and balanced diet.
“It’s the key component to move us from a health care system to being a system of health,” said Lt. Col. Ed Weinberg, clinic commander.
For the past three months, Rader staffers who chose to participate tracked their sleep, exercise or nutrition habits and submitted that information to one of the clinic’s Performance Triad representatives. When the results were tallied, Dr. Evonne Fei won the nutrition and sleep category and Dr. Whitney Lopez was the winner of the activity category. Runners up were Mary Wilson and Pfc. Kimberly Williams in the nutrition category.
“These ladies took on the challenge of tracking either sleep, activity or nutrition for 90 days and turning that into one of the Performance Triad representatives,” explained Capt. Vanessa Bonner, a physical therapist at the clinic who serves as Performance Triad champion for the Fort Myer and Fort McNair portions of the joint base.
Participants turned in a sheet each week that tracked the number of hours they slept each night; the types of food they ate and how much water they drank; and how many steps they walked, plus the number of minutes of resistance or cardiovascular exercise they did.
“I got my waistline down,” said Williams with a broad smile.
Fei and Whitney said participating in the challenge was a good motivator for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
“It was just living healthier,” said Lopez. “By the end of 90 days, it becomes a habit.”
The clinic also held Walking Wednesdays and sponsored tours of the commissary and hosted guest speakers, said Bonner.
| Date Taken: | 02.27.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.06.2015 12:30 |
| Story ID: | 156183 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, VIRGINIA, US |
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