{"id":5067,"date":"2015-01-04T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:08:59","slug":"january-is-weight-loss-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=5067","title":{"rendered":"January is Weight Loss Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is, for many people, time to rein in the excesses of the fall and winter holidays. The month of January is Weight Loss Awareness Month.\u00a0Here are a few resources in the DLG that promote healthy diet and exercise for those of us who have begun 2016 by counting calories and increasing our physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Government Publications database includes a ten-year nutrition and physical activity plan \u00a0developed by the Georgia Department of Human Resources, who consulted a statewide wide group of nutrition and physical activity professionals to develop a ten-year Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan to address the rise of obesity in the state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5068\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:y-ga-bh800-pp8-bm1-b2005-bn8-belec-p-btext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5068\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Georgia-Nutrition-and-Physical-Activity-Plan-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"2005-2015 Georgia's nutrition and physical activity plan to prevent and control obesity and chronic diseases in Georgia. Georgia. Division of Public Health. \" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Georgia-Nutrition-and-Physical-Activity-Plan-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Georgia-Nutrition-and-Physical-Activity-Plan.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2005-2015 Georgia&#8217;s nutrition and physical activity plan to prevent and control obesity and chronic diseases in Georgia. Georgia. Division of Public Health.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From our partners at Georgia State University Libraries Special Collections, we have a photograph of Clayton businessmen exercising as part of an organized fitness program held twice weekly during the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ajc\/id\/620 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Claytons_recreation_program_to_keep_men_fit_Georgia_June_1_1971-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white. Clayton's recreation program to keep men fit, Georgia, June 1, 1971. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. AJCP551-51e, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Claytons_recreation_program_to_keep_men_fit_Georgia_June_1_1971-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Claytons_recreation_program_to_keep_men_fit_Georgia_June_1_1971.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clayton&#8217;s recreation program to keep men fit, Georgia, June 1, 1971. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. AJCP551-51e, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And from our partners at the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System, we have a photograph of high school girls exercising in a physical education class at Screven County High School in 1951.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/screven\/gcm\/jpgs\/gcm104-023-002.jpg \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5070 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Screven-County-High-School-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photograph of high school girls performing calisthenics in a physical education class at Screven County High School, Sylvania, Georgia, 1951. Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System Collection, Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System.\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Screven-County-High-School-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Weight-Loss-Month-Screven-County-High-School.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of high school girls performing calisthenics in a physical education class at Screven County High School, Sylvania, Georgia, 1951. Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System Collection, Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a happy and healthy 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is, for many people, time to rein in the excesses of the fall and winter holidays. 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