October Observances

2006
Dates

Show/Article Ideas

 Alzheimer's Memory Walk

varies locally

Don’t Forget, Physical Fitness Fights Alzheimer's

 American Heart Walk, Healthy Choice

varies locally

All Walk and No Show – Why a “heart walk” doesn’t improve your heart

 Bone & Joint Decade National Awareness Week (same dates every yr.)

12-20

Strengthening Bones And Joints By Avoiding Your Doctor

 Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National

1-31

How Fitness Can Save Your Breasts And Your Life

 Breast Cancer Control Month

1-31

Fitness, Fatness And Recurrent Breast Cancer – Give Life A Chance

 Campaign for Healthier Babies Month, National

1-31

7 Ways Fit Parents Make Fitter Babies

 Child Health Day, National (1st Monday)

2

5 Simple Steps To Insure Your Child’s Health

 Children's Health Month

1-31

One A Week – 4 Changes That Will Last Your Child’s Lifetime

 Depression Screening Day, National (1st Thursday)

5

Fitness Fights Depression

 Depression & Mental Health Month

1-31

You'll Be Surprised To Learn What Fitness Can Do For Your Mental Health

 Family Health Month, National

1-31

Are you Fit To Parent?

 Healthcare Quality Week, National (2nd full week)

8-14

How To Protect Yourself From Poor Quality Healthcare

 Health Education Week, National (3rd Mon. for 7 days)

16-22

Fitness Facts – The Only True Health Education

 Health Literacy Month

1-31

Read Between The Lines – How Healthcare Makes You Ill

 Healthy Lung Month

1-31

The Healthy Lung Program

 Lung Health Day (4th Wed.)

25

5 Steps To Healthy Lungs

 Mammography Day, National (3rd Friday)

20

Fit Breasts Are Healthy Breasts

 Pharmacy Week, National (3rd week)

15-21

Save Your Life – Avoid The Pharmacy

 Physical Therapy Month, National

1-31

How To Avoid Physical Therapy

 Primary Care Week, National (3rd week)

15-21

Primary Care Begins At Home

 

Put The “Primary” Back In Care – Don’t Leave It To Your Doctor

 School Lunch Week, National (2nd school week)

9-13

Take Back The Menu – How Parents Can Improve School Lunches

 Spinal Health Month, National

1-31

A Fit Spine Is A Fine Spine

 Talk About Prescriptions Month

1-31

Talk About Making Prescriptions Go Away!

 

Prescriptions – Another Way The Sick Care System Kills

 

Talk About How Prescriptions Harm

 Vegetarian Awareness Month

1-31

Vegetarians, Vegans – Are They Really Healthier?

 World Blindness Awareness Month

1-31

How Fitness Prevents Blindness

 World Food Day (16th every yr.)

16

A World of Healthy Foods

 

No Food In The World Is Low In Nutrition

 World Mental Health Day (10th every yr.)

10

The Fit Brain Is Mentally Healthy

 

 

 November Observances

2006
Dates

 

 Allied Health Week, National (1st full week)

5-11

How The Healthcare Gangs Are Allied Against You

 Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, National

1-30

Be Aware – Physical Fitness Fights Alzheimer's

 COPD Awareness Month

1-30

Fit Lungs – When You Can’t Breathe, Nothing Else Matters

Diabetes Month, American

1-30

The Real Causes of Diabetes – Health Care Professionals, Gurus and the Government

 

Expert Diet Advice Is The Number One Cause Of Type II Diabetes

Diabetic Eye Disease Month

1-30

Blinded by Health Care – The Bad Advice They Don’t Want You To See

 

Diabetic Eye Disease Is Caused By Expert Diet Advice

 

The American Diabetes Association – A  Cause Of Eye Disease and Diet Failure

 Health Information & Technology Week (2nd full week)

5-11

Bad Health Information – Even Technology Can’t Fix It

 Prematurity Awareness Day (3rd Tuesday)

21

Unfit Mothers Cause Premature Babies

 Prematurity Awareness Month

1-30

How Fitness Keeps Your Baby Off The Ventilator

 

How Fitness Prevents Retarded Babies

 PH (Pulmonary Hypertension) Awareness Month

1-30

Diet Pills And Pulmonary Hypertension – Lessons You Should Have Learned From Dead Fat People

Thanksgiving

23

Eat Your Regular Holiday Meals and Still LOSE Weight

 

How To Eat 33% More Calories and Not Gain Additional Weight

 

 

 

 December Observances

2006
Dates

 

Christmas

25

GOD AND BOD – Put the “Lean” Back in Galilean

 

Eat Your Regular Holiday Meals and Still LOSE Weight

 

How To Eat 33% More Calories and Not Gain Additional Weight

 

 

 

 January Observances

2007
Dates

 

Activity Professionals Week, National
(4th work week begin Sunday)

21-26

Become your Own Activity Professional

Birth Defects Prevention Month

1-31

Fitness, Fatness and Fetal Malformations

Healthy Weight Week
(3rd full week)

21-27

Achieve A Healthy Weight – Ignore The Gurus, Doctors And Government

 

Why Expert Diet Advice Is The NUMBER ONE Cause Of Unhealthy Weight

Thyroid Awareness Month

1-31

 

Women's Healthy Weight Day
(Thursday of 3rd full week)

25

The Three Easiest Ways To Achieve A Healthy Weight

 

 

 

 February Observances

2007
Dates

 

Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, National
(Valentine’s week)

11-17

Cardiac PREhabilitation – How To Avoid Cardiac Rehabilitation

 

Cardiac Rehab – Who Comes First, You or Your Doctor’s Malpractice Insurance?

Cardiovascular Professionals Week
(Valentine’s week)

11-17

Be Your Own Cardiovascular Professional

 

Keeping Your Heart Sick, Keeps Them Rich

Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week (7 days before Valentine’s Day)

7-14

Fat Parents Doom Their Children To Heart Disease From Birth

Eating Disorders Awareness Week, National
(last Sunday)

27-March 5

The Real Causes of Eating Disorders – Health Care Professionals, Gurus and the Government

 

How Parents Cause Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Screening Program
(last Sunday)

25

Reflections In The Mirror – The Only Screening You Need

Girls and Women in Sports Day, National
(1st Wed.)

7

Sports For Fitness: Don’t Just Do It – Do It Right

Heart Month, American

1-28

The Real Causes of Heart Disease – Health Care Professionals, Gurus and the Government

Pride in Food Service Week
(1st work week)

5-9

How To Serve Food That Will Make You Proud

Women's Heart Health Day, National
(3rd Fri. of Feb.)

16

How Expert Diet Advice Destroys The Hearts Of Women

 

 

 

 March Observances

2007
Dates

 

 American Diabetes Alert Day (4th Tuesday)

27

How the American Diabetes Association Causes Diabetes

 Brain Awareness Week (Mon. of 2nd full week)

12-18

BrainFitness – Activities and Nutrition That Keep You Smart

 Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, National

1-31

What Goes In Your Mouth Affects Your Butt

 Doctor's Day (last Tuesday)

26

Unemploy Your Doctor for Doctor’s Day

 

Protect Yourself – Make Your Doctor Irrelevant

 

Doctors – The Most Violent Professionals

 

Do What Doctors Want – Avoid Them

 

When Doctors Kill – An Ongoing Threat

 

How Doctors Make You Sick

 Kidney Month, National

1-31

The Fitness Way To Saving Your Kidneys

 

Expert Diet Advice – A Kidney Killer

 Nutrition Month, National

1-31

The ONLY Thing You Need To Know About Proper Nutrition

 Patient Safety Awareness Week, National (1st week)

4-10

The BEST Patient Safety? Do Not Become a Patient

 

No Patient Is Safe – The Risks Of Sick Care

 Poison Prevention Week, National (3rd week)

18-24

Food As Poison

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, National (2nd full week)

11-17

Save Your Lungs So They Never Need Rehabilitation

 Save Your Vision Month

1-31

Get Fit, See Better

 School Breakfast Week, National (1st School Week)

5-9

How Should Children Start The Day?

 

 

 

 April Observances

2007 Dates

 

 Alcohol Awareness Month

1-30

The Seven-Calorie Problem

 Alcohol Free Weekend (1st weekend, varies by locale)

6-8

How Expert Diet Advice Drives You To Drink!

 Alcohol Screening Day, National (2nd Thursday)

12

Who Did You Hurt On The Way To The Screening?

 Cancer Control Month

1-30

Fitness – The ONLY Way You Can Control Cancer

 Candlelight Vigil for Eating Disorders Awareness Month

1-30

Forget the Vigil, How To Enjoy Candlelight Dinners

 Cesarean Awareness Month

1-30

Unfit Mothers – Set-ups For Cesareans

 Child Abuse Prevention Month

1-30

Nutritional Abuse: The Most Common Form of Child Abuse

 

Are Parents the Greatest Abusers of Children?

 

How the Government, Politicians, Clergy, School Officials and Doctors Get Away With Abusing Our Children

 Earth Day

22

Fitness Fun That Saves The Planet

 

Earth Day Activities For Fitness

 Health Information Privacy & Security Week, National (2nd Sunday + week)

8-14

Keep Your health Information Private- Avoid The Sick Care System

 Minority Cancer Awareness Week, National (3rd full week)

15-21

Cancer And Fat – A Majority Problem In Minority Populations

 Public Health Week, National (Week of 1st Monday)

2-8

How Public Health Recommendations Kill

 WalkAmerica March of Dimes (4th Weekend)

28-29

Unfit Mothers Have Premies

 

Don’t Deliver Early – Be Pregnant And Fit

Women's Eye Health and Safety Month

1-30

Big Thighs, Sick Eyes – Can You See The Connection?

 World Health Day (7th day)

7

World Health Begins With One Person – You!

 YMCA Healthy Kids Day (1st Saturday)

7

EVERYDAY Is Healthy Kids Day

 

 

 

 May Observances

2007 Dates

 

 Anxiety Disorders Screening Day, National (1st Wed)

2

Anxiety Is Measured In Pounds – The Fitness Cure To Anxiety

 Arthritis Month, National, & Annual Arthritis Walk

1-31

Don’t Walk, Lift! – Resistance Training For Healthy Joints

 Better Sleep Month

1-31

Why Unfitness Causes Fitful Sleep

 

“Died In Their Sleep” – The Fate Of The Unfit

 

When Sleep Kills – Unfitess And The Morning That Never Arrived

 Breathe Easy Month, National

1-31

Breathe Fit – Breathe Easy

 Childhood Depression Awareness Day, Green Ribbon Day (always the 4th)

4

Young and Unfit = Depressed Child

 Children's Mental Health Week (1st full week)

6-12

Children – Unhealthy Minds In Unhealthy Bodies

 Correct Posture Month

1-31

When You’re Proud Of Your Body, Your Posture Shows It

 Cover the Uninsured Week (1st Monday?)

6-12

Save A Life – Do NOT Cover The Uninsured!

 Digestive Diseases Awareness Month, National

1-31

There Are Not Enough Digestive Diseases!

 

The Most Common Digestive Disease Is Overeating

 Emergency Medical Services Week, National (3rd week)

20-26

All Medical Services Are Emergencies

 Food Allergy Awareness Week  (2nd Monday beginning Sunday)

13-19

Create Your Own Food Allergy – How To Improve Your Life

 Healthy Vision Month

1-31

Why Expert Diet Advice Is A Major Cause Of Vision Loss

 High Blood Pressure Month, National

1-31

The Real Causes of Hypertension – Health Care Professionals, Gurus and the Government

 

Expert Diet Advice – A Major Cause Of Hypertension

 Hospital Week, National (2nd work week)

13-19

Save Your Life – Avoid The Hospital

 

Hospitals Threaten Your Life And Health

 

Hospitals Are Enough To Make You Sick

 Mental Health Counseling Week, National (1st full week)

6-12

If You Follow A Diet, You Need Mental Health Counseling

 Mental Health Month, National

1-31

You’d Have To Be Crazy To Listen To A Diet Expert

 

Believing Diet and Fitness Experts – The True Sign Of A Sick Mind

 Nurses Week, National (always 6 to 12)

6-12

Protect Your Life – Unemploy Nurses

 Nursing Home Week (2nd full week)

13-19

How To Avoid The Nursing Home

 

Nursing Homes – Unnecessary Care For Unnecessary Disorders

 Older Americans' Mental Health Week

20-26

If You’re Old And Fat, You’re Sick In The Head

 Older Americans Month

1-31

Get Fit And Continue To Age

 

To Get Fitter, Avoid Expert Fitness Advice

 Osteoporosis Awareness & Prevention Month, National

1-31

Osteoporosis – Not Just For Women Anymore

 

Osteoporosis – The Underestimated Killer

 Physical Fitness & Sports Medicine Month, National

1-31

Get Physically Fit – Don’t Follow Expert Advice

 Running and Fitness Week, National (last full week)

20-26

Don’t Just Do It, Do It Right: Running Right for Fitness

 School Nurse Day, National (Wed. during Nurses Week)

9

Keep Your Child Away From School Nurses

 Senior Health & Fitness Day, National (always the last Wed.)

30

Seniors Get Fit And Kick Some Junior Butt

 Stroke Awareness Month, National

1-31

The Real Causes of Stroke – Health Care Professionals, Gurus and the Government

 

Why Expert Diet Advice Is A Major Cause Of Stroke

 Women's Check-up Day, National (day after Mother's Day, during 2nd full week)

14

Don’t Get Checked-Up, Get Suited-Up

 Women's Health Week, National (2nd full week with Mother's Day)

13-19

The ONLY Way To Health Is Fitness

 

 

 

 June Observances

2007
Dates

 

 Cancer Survivor's Day, National (1st Sunday)

3

Survival Of The Fittest – What It Takes To Beat Cancer

 Career Nurse Assistants Day (2nd Thursday)

14

Don’t Assist Nurses – Make Them Go Away!

 Headache Awareness Week, National (1st week)

3-9

Why Unfitness Is The NUMBER ONE Cause of Headaches and What You Can Do To Make It Go Away

 Light the Night for Sight

May - July

No, Turn On The LITE For Sight

 Men’s Health Week, National (2nd Monday)

11-17

REAL Men Have Erections – Thinking Hard About Men’s Health Week

 

It’s All About Your Penis, Isn’t It? – Coming To Grips With Men’s Health

 

 

 

 July Observances

2007
Dates

 

 Light the Night for Sight

May-July

LITE The Table For Sight

 

LITE The Refrigerator For Sight

 

 

 

 August Observances

2007
Dates

 

 Health Center Week, National (2nd week)

5-11

There Are No Health Centers, Only Sickness Centers

 Pain Awareness Month, National

1-31

Fit People Don’t Buy Pain Medications

 

Stop The Pain, Start The Fitness

 

 

 

 September Observances

2007
Dates

 

 5-a-Day Month, National

1-30

One A Day, Schmone A Day, It’s Not About What You Stick In Your Mouth

 Childhood Injury Prevention Week (1st to 7th every yr.)

1-7

Parents Are The Cause Of Childhood Injury

 

Prevent Childhood Injury – Hold Parents Accountable

 

GRAM SHOP ACTS – How The Government Can Prevent Childhood Injury

 

Prevent Childhood Injury – Hold Government, Doctors, Schools, Clergy and Law Enforcement Accountable

 Children's Eye Health & Safety Month

1-31

Can’t You See Your Kid Is Fat? – Type II Diabetes And Your Child’s Eyes

 Cholesterol Education Month, National

1-30

Statin Nation – Controlling You With Drugs

 Family Health & Fitness Days USA  (last Sat of month)

29

Family Health Begins Before You Have Children – Are You Fit To Parent?

 

Are You Fit To Grandparent?

 Healthy Aging Month

1-30

The SCAM of Anti-Aging Medicine

 

You Have No Control Over How You Age EXCEPT Through Fitness

 STOP A Suicide Today Day (Thurs. of the week containing the 10th)

14

Start Eating Fewer Calories and Stop A Suicide Today

 Suicide Prevention Week, National (full week that includes the 10th)

9-15

Prevent Suicide – Avoid The Weight Loss Advice Of The Gurus, Doctors And Government

 

FLABICIDE – The Number One Method Of Suicide

 

FLABICIDE – How You Are Committing Suicide And Killing Others In The Process

 Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day (3rd Tuesday)

18

If You Really Loved Them, You’d Keep Them Away From The Doctor

 Women's Health & Fitness Day, National (last Wednesday)

26

Unlearning The Fitness Lies – The Real Ways To Get Fit

 World Suicide Prevention Day

10

Worldwide FLABICIDE – The Planetary Suicide Epidemic