Category: Healthy Living
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Healthy Living / Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Youth Development
Join us for Halloween at the Y
Join us for a spooktacular night of fortune telling, not-so-scary stories, healthy treats, obstacle courses, haunted locker rooms, games, crafts and more! All the Halloween fun is centered around family togetherness and health-centered activities. Halloween at the Y is a great way for families who are new to the Y to get to know our…
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The Farmington Family YMCA would like to recognize one of our amazing members who has overcome tremendous challenges. Harvey joined the Farmington Family YMCA in January. He had recently spent the previous nine months in a rehab hospital overcoming some complications due to surgery. When he joined he had just started walking again with the…
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Read the full article here. The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit’s Y on the Fly program is a mobile YMCA that brings games, activities, and healthy meals to kids all over Metro Detroit. Learn more about Y on the Fly.
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Detroit area residents are improving their health by lowering their blood pressure thanks to a grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan. New blood pressure self-monitoring sites launch Summer 2018 contact Tricia Hamzik or Brittney Lyons.
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Healthy Living / Lakeshore Family YMCA / Livonia Family YMCA / North Oakland Family YMCA / Social Responsibility / Youth Development
2017 Impact Report
As a resident of metro Detroit you know our community is resilient. We are a loving, diverse community of varied ages, genders, ethnicities, backgrounds and challenges. We also share in common goals and believe in the potential of every child and family. We enable our children to overcome learning gaps, nurture our teens to thrive…
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Click here to vote for the Y in the Detroit News Holiday Cheer for Charity. We have a chance to win $20,000 to make our communities a better place to be! Your vote could be the one that helps the Y move forward to the final round!
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Exercise is key to living a healthy lifestyle and some of us have some pretty intense athletic hobbies. However, we have a tendency to exercising beyond the body’s ability to recover. Excessive exercise can be dangerous and can actually cause risk to your health. There are at least 10 warning signs that shouldn’t be ignored.…
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Running is great exercise, however, it can cause repetitive strain on body parts and be a source of injury. Here are the top 5 most common running injuries, how they occur and the best ways to treat them. 1. Runner’s Knee Runner’s knee is an aching pain around or behind the kneecap. It’s also called…