June 8, 2009

Farmers market can help with earning a Healthy Purdue apple

Visits to the Purdue farmers market or another local market can help Purdue employees earn a Healthy Purdue apple in the "Colorful Choices" program.

"Colorful Choices," a self-directed e-mail-based offering from HRS WorkLife Programs, makes good nutrition easy and fun by encouraging participants to eat five daily servings of fruits and vegetables.

This six-week nutrition program helps participants not only to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into their diet consistently, but also to try new varieties as well. Participants receive one weekly communication via e-mail, log their activities for six weeks, and turn in a completed chart and evaluation at the end.

Completion of "Colorful Choices" qualifies for the purple behavior/lifestyle change programs apple as part of Healthy Purdue 2009. A new session begins June 29. To register, visit www.purdue.edu/worklife and log in to the online registration system. 

At the West Lafayette campus, the Purdue farmers market is at the corner of Sheetz and Wood streets, just west of the Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center. The market, sponsored by Purdue Physical Facilities, will operate 3-6:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 13.

Check your campus program for offerings available this summer:

* West Lafayette: 494-5461, worklife@purdue.edu

*Calumet: (219) 989-2709, lowry@calumet.purdue.edu

*Fort Wayne: (260) 481-6647, tillapau@ipfw.edu

*North Central: (219) 785-5519, tlaux@pnc.edu