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<http://www.healthfinder.gov/> healthfinder® logoApril was proclaimed National Donate <http://www.organdonor.gov/> LifeMonth by President W. Bush, who said "Each day, an average of 68 ...individuals receive an organ transplant, yet another 17 on the waiting listdie. As a Nation, we must strive to meet the needs of all Americans awaitingsuch donations.... I call upon our citizens to sign an organ and tissuedonor card and to be screened for bone marrow donation."Another Presidential Initiative, HealthierUS <http://www.healthierus.gov/> ,was also in the news last week as Secretary of Health and Human ServicesTommy G. held a national prevention summit on implementing thePresident's vision through Steps to a HealthierUS:<http://www.healthierus.gov/steps/index.html#cast> Putting Prevention First.The four pillars of HealthierUS are nutrition, physical fitness, preventivescreening, and healthy choices with regard to risky behaviors. TheHealthierUS.Gov <http://www.healthierus.gov/> Web site offers many great,EASY tips for becoming a healthier you, as well as streaming video of theSummit, including remarks by U.S. Surgeon General Carmona.Also announced at the Steps Summit was a new downloadable version of theU.S. Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient<http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2003/04/0120.htm> Database. The databaselists up to 117 nutrients for more than 6,000 food items in 22 food-groupcategories--use it to help plan healthier meals and snacks.Another new planning aid is the 'Portion Distortion<http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion/> ' quiz from the National Heart, Lung,and Blood Institute's Aim<http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/index.htm> fora Healthy Weight Web Site. Anyone eating on the run or at restaurants hasprobably noticed that food portions have gotten larger. Some portions arecalled "super size," while others have simply grown in size and provideenough food for at least two people. With this growth have come increases inwaistlines and body weight. To maintain your weight, the extra calories youeat need to be burned up through physical activity. Take this short quiz<http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion/> to see if you know how today's portionscompare to the portions available 20 years ago, and how much physicalactivity you will need to do to burn up the extra calories provided bytoday's food portions.Carrying on the theme of HealthierUS, this coming weekend is WalkAmerica<http://www.walkamerica.org/wd.asp> . Sponsored by the March of Dimes,WalkAmerica supports lifesaving research and innovative programs that savebabies from prematurity, birth defects and other infant health problems.You can help yourself and others by joining a WalkAmerica event nearyou--the site lets you search by ZIP code or State.May is also a month of many health observances, among them National Women'sHealth Week and the first ever National Women's Check-Up Day on Monday, May12, 2003. For more information and to sign-up as a health provider or anevent host, visit the National Women's Health Information Center athttp://www.4women.gov/WHW/ <http://www.4women.gov/WHW/> .May is National Physical Fitness and Sports<http://fitness.gov/mayintro.html> Month, too, and the President's Councilon Physical Fitness and Sports offers great tips for beginning physical<http://fitness.gov/rxmay.html> activity as the weather warms up. And thePCPFS isn't just for children in school anymore--it has a new Presidential<http://www.indiana.edu/~preschal/pala/paal/description.shtml> Adult ActiveLifestyle Program.Visit our National Health<http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp#m5> Observances calendarfor more May events, including Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month, BetterSleep Month, and National Suicide Prevention Week.Of course, please visit www.healthfinder.gov <http://www.healthfinder.gov/>any time you have a health question.---------You are subscribed to the healthfinder-l listserv, one of the freegovernment e-mail newsletters featured on FirstGov<http://www.firstgov.gov/> . healthfinder <http://www.healthfinder.gov/>® is a Web guide to reliable health information, developed by the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services. 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