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It’s MY health.

It’s MY life.

The Living Well Alaska workshop helps you take control of your ongoing health condition, rather than letting it control you!

If diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, lung disease, or any chronic condition affects your life, Living Well ALaska is for you! Attend the Living Well Alaska workshop one time per week for six weeks to learn to:

Living Well

Alaska: Better Choices, Better Health

• Manage symptoms

• Fight fatigue

• Communicate better with your doctor

• Make daily tasks easier

• Lessen your frustration

• AND...get more out of life!

Location: Anchorage Health Center, 4951 Business Park Blvd.

Date: April 22 - May 27 Time: Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

RSVP: Call 907-743-7359 Leader: Xiomara Gilyard A light lunch and program materials will be provided.

UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

It’s MY health.

It’s MY life.

The Living Well Alaska workshop helps you take control of your ongoing health condition, rather than letting it control you!

If diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, lung disease, or any chronic condition affect your life, Living Well ALaska is for you! Attend the Living Well Alaska workshop one time per week for six weeks to learn to:

Living Well

Alaska: Better Choices, Better Health

• Manage symptoms

• Fight fatigue

• Communicate better with your doctor

• Make daily tasks easier

• Lessen your frustration

• AND...get more out of life!

Location: Mat Su Senior Services (Palmer Senior Center) Date: March 11 through April 15, 2014 Time: Tuesdays, 1 - 3:30 p.m.

RSVP: Call 907-745-3360 Leaders: Margaret Runser, Marcia Watson and Julie Cascio

UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

It’s MY health.

It’s MY life.

The Living Well Alaska workshop helps you take control of your ongoing health condition, rather than letting it control you!

If diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, lung disease, or any chronic condition affect your life, Living Well ALaska is for you! Attend the Living Well Alaska workshop one time per week for six weeks to learn to:

Living Well

Alaska: Better Choices, Better Health

• Manage symptoms

• Fight fatigue

• Communicate better with your doctor

• Make daily tasks easier

• Lessen your frustration

• AND...get more out of life!

Location: Mat-Su Senior Services (Palmer Senior Center) Date: March 11 through April 15, 2014 Time: Tuesdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.

RSVP: Call 907-745-3360 Leaders: Margaret Runser, Marcia Watson and Julie Cascio

UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Have you ever been told by a health care professional that you: • • • • •

Are at risk for getting diabetes?

Have prediabetes?

Have borderline diabetes?

Have high blood sugar or glucose?

Had gestational diabetes?

You may be at high risk for Type 2 diabetes, but there is something you can do about it.

This program helps you learn how to change your lifestyle to prevent Type 2 diabetes. Program includes 16 weekly sessions and six monthly followup sessions with a trained lifestyle coach.

You can prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes! Sign up today and make a change for life!

First 8-week session will be held Mondays, March 31 through May 19.

Sign up for the 3 – 4 p.m. class or the 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. class.

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You may be at high risk for Type 2 diabetes, but there is something you can do about it.

Have you ever been told by a health care professional that you: • Are at risk for getting diabetes?

• Have prediabetes?

• Have borderline diabetes?

• Have high blood sugar or glucose?

• Had gestational diabetes?

Without weight loss and moderate physical activity, many people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within 3 years. The lifestyle changes you make will help you prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

But there is something you can do about it.

This program follows the Centers for Disease Control National Diabetes Prevention Program curriculum. It is an approach that is proven to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and includes: • Trained lifestyle coach • CDC-approved curriculum • Registered dietician • 16 weekly meetings plus monthly follow-up for one year • Help with weight loss and physical activity plan

Give someone you love the gift of health.

Sign up for this National Diabetes Prevention Program.

You can prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes!

Sign up today and make a change for life!

Registration details on back. Call Leslie Shallcross at 786-6313 or 786-6300 for more information.

Starting Mon., Feb. 16 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

— or — 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Cost: $240

Sign up today and make a change for life: Starting Mon., Feb. 16 Pre-register online at:

http://conta.cc/1KLB6eJ for the 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. class -- or -http://conta.cc/1KLAvtG for the 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. class

or Call Leslie Shallcross at 786-6313 for more information.

Payment due upon admission to program.

UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

Prediabetes Can Lead to Type 2 Diabetes

Without weight loss and moderate physical activity, many people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within 3 years. The lifestyle changes you make will help you prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

But there is something you can do about it.

This program follows the Centers for Disease Control National Diabetes Prevention Program curriculum. It is an approach that is proven to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and includes: • Trained lifestyle coach • CDC-approved curriculum • Registered dietician

YOU DON’T HAVE TO KNOCK YOURSELF OUT TO PREVENT DIABETES! Studies show that people at high risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay the disease if they lose as little as 10 to 14 pounds (if they weigh 200 pounds) by walking 30 minutes 5 days a week and making healthy food choices. Keep in mind that small steps can lead to big rewards.

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Park your car farther away from stores, movie theaters, or your office.

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• Had gestational diabetes?

Call Leslie Shallcross at 786-6313 or 786-6300 for more information.

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Set a standing walking date. Or do something that everyone enjoys—shoot hoops, take a bike ride, or line dance.

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Take your first step now — sign up today!

UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

• Help with weight loss and physical activity plan

Give yourself or someone you love the gift of health. Sign up for the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

16 week program and monthly follow-up for one year — $240 Sign up today and change your life: Starting Mon., April 13 • 7 - 8 p.m.

For more information or to pre-register Call Leslie Shallcross at 786-6313 Payment will be accepted after admission to the program.

Changing Forests of Coastal Alaska

How climate influences tree species in the coastal rain forest ecosystems of Alaska Paul Hennon, Forest Pathologist, U.S. Forest Service

Tuesday, December 4 • 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

Kodiak Video Conference site: Kodiak Room Library Room 134

Trees in coastal Alaska have ranges that extend far to the south into British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, where they have adapted to some of the same climate conditions that are projected for coastal Alaska’s future — warmer winters, less snow and longer growing seasons. In Alaska, Sitka spruce and western hemlock may benefit from a warmer climate, but many of their insect and pathogen agents are also favored by these conditions.

The unusual case of yellow cedar shows how a mild change in climate can initiate widespread tree death and serves as an example of how we can use information from different sources to tailor conservation and active management to adapt to a changing climate.

Paul Hennon, PhD Paul has studied the forests of coastal Alaska since 1981 as a research forest pathologist for the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Juneau, Alaska. His research includes the ecology and management of forest diseases, such as wood decays of live trees and dwarf mistletoe.

Paul also studies the adaptation of tree species to climate, an interest that developed as he looked for the cause of the widespread yellow cedar decline in Southeast Alaska.

www.uaf.edu/ces • 877-520-5211 UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

FARM AND GARDEN

Join Steve Brown, MatSu District Ag/Hort agent for the following classes CHICKEN UNIVERSITY, (class limited to 40). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAY 4, 7 – 9 p.m.

This fun and informative class will help the novice learn the fundamentals of raising chickens in Alaska.

Topics include breed selection, where to get the breeds you want, determining the sex of chicks, coop design, hatching, brooding, nutrition, diseases and even a little bit of poultry psychology.

INTRODUCTION TO ALASKA VEGETABLE GARDENING, (class limited to 40). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAY 5, 7 – 9 p.m.

New to Alaska or new to gardening? If so, this class is for you. Learn the fundamentals of soil sampling, fertilization, garden planning, variety selection, methods for warming soil, weed control and much more.

ALASKAN LAWN CARE, (class limited to 40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAY 18, 7 – 9 p.m.

Creating a beautiful lawn is the single cheapest thing you can do to increase the value of your home.

This class will teach you how to inexpensively create and maintain a beautiful lawn. Topics include grass selection, yard preparation, seeding rates, mower selection, fertilization and disease control. Learn how to make the neighbors jealous in this class.

SOIL SCIENCE AND FERTILIZERS, (class limited to 40) . . . . MAY 20, 7 – 9 p.m.

Are fertilizers a mystery to you? Do you know how to select the right fertilizers for what you are growing?

What’s the difference between organic and conventional fertilizers? This class will teach you the fundamentals of soil science and all but guarantees improved results in this year’s garden.

Call 745-3360 to register.

ALL CLASSES WILL BE HELD IN KERTTULA HALL, ROOM 208 1509 S. GEORGESON ROAD, PALMER (MATANUSKA EXPERIMENT FARM) www.uaf.edu/ces/matsu

statewide 877-520-5211 • www.uaf.edu/ces UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

Eating Well:

Mediterranean

in Alaska

Wed., Feb. 23 • 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

JDHS Room 114 Pre-registration required. Call 796-6221 to register.

Class size will be limited to 14 • $15 fee Lecture and cooking time: 2 1/2 hours.

Presentation by

Leslie Shallcross,

Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor of Extension with UAF Cooperative Extension Service UAF is an AA/EO employer and educational institution.

Research on benefits of the “Mediterranean Diet” have frequently made the news. Come and find out what researchers believe and how you can use these principles in your own eating plan. We will have a hands-on cooking class using Alaskan food and see some of the research on the world’s healthiest diet.