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SOLON along the way to a 2009 Healthy Communities Rewards in now State of Ohio, there were a lot of testimonies among the thousands that participated in the "the initiative of health of community in collaboration" known as Healthy Solon.

One of them would be certainly the administrator leader of the Program of Cities of Healthy Ohio, Bev Waters Shankman, that lives in Solon and piloted the program here. She lost 50 books and reduced his cholesterol by more than 100 points by a combination of system and the exercise.

Then it there also would have the two dozens or if the people that discovered by the free screens of health in Solon as they had the non diagnosed diabetes and could have been prevented from becomes diabetic symptomatiques, again by the system and the exercise.

And do not forget the officers of health and other prognosticators that said at first that it could not be done on a such big ladder ae” at least step by the system and the exercise.

"When we began on this project in 2007, we said that we wanted to see which type of an impact that we could have on the health of the entire community," Shankman recalled. "We simply were said that' it cannot be done. . . You can do a program as that in the place of individual work, or in the smallest focal groups. But you cannot take an entire community and foresee results.

"So from now on, our objective was to prove them bad," Shankman added.

That was 2½ the years there is ae” long before the program of Solon pilots beginning doing his manner in the other cities of Ohio, including Dublin and Maumee.

"This is our third year of success in the health initiative for the City of Solon," said Sally Deitrick, the secretary to the mayor and the liaison of the city. "A lot of peuplades' lives improved because of this program, and our inhabitants, just like our businesses and the schools are active participants.

"All must do you is examines to the Center of activities of Solon to observe the strong support and the strong interaction that our community participates in. "

That was thank you in the not small party to Peleg of "Trainer" of David, that works for the city Department of leisures and is member of the Guiding Committee of Healthy Solon. Peleg also was recognized when Solon won his Reward in now.

"This was a phenomenal program," Peleg said. "Of an educational aspect ae” that we learned on the guiding committee and how we were able to change all our methods of life ae” this was big".

The more, if not all the events ae” the Challenge of Method of life, Fails it annual Health, and the Vacation last week Healthy Cooking the Program ae” or directly are accommodated or is coordinated by the activity Center, that Peleg said is a will to the Mayor Kevin Patton, the town council and the guiding city Gift Holub of leisures.

"For Fails it annual Health, we do in average 2,000 to 3,000 people on a four- to the period of five hours, with 80 to 90 salesmen," Peleg said. "For the first year, our theme was' the game of Life,' and we had a model of' the Matter Or No Matter'. Then we had a baseball theme it next year and basketball ae”' the Madness of March' ae”after that".

But it there also had the Rodedos of Bicycle, with 150 certified cyclists in 2008, just like a "Women Pampering and the thermal Station" the event, with 200 screens of health to a time.

As the party of the Vacation of Health Cooking the Program last week, the participants were asked to bring two cans of 16 ounces of food, that they used for the exercises, then donates to the Firemen of Solon the unity of local food.

"We had 12,000' the keys' to the program since 2007, and we develop now a project of durability for Solon, look for the federal subsidy, and the additional sponsors of business, just like the donations," Shankman said. "Healthy Solon does not leave".

Mutual medical engaged remainder to support Solon Healthy by early March, as to do other partners and the other sponsors, including the Clinic of Cleveland and his Center of Health of Family of Solon, Not at all Hospital of the south, the Hospital of Hillcrest, Wellcorp, Astrazeneca, Pfizer, the Counsel of Solon of Education, the Center of activities of Solon and the other businesses of sector and the restaurants.

"The principal thing is that we normalized arterial tension, the cholesterol reduces, the lost tons of weight, increased health and created an entire culture of health by the screens and the free programs, just like the health challenges," Shankman said.