Exercise Your Right to Feel Better MN
Exercise Your Right (EYR) encourages families and individuals to take steps towards eating better and moving more. EYR encourages you to make sustainable changes to your daily routine to eat better and move more. Even small changes can have a big effect on your health!
Exercise Your Right: Video
Nominated for a Regional Emmy Award
A 30-minute Minnesota Channel production providing tips and encouragement on healthy eating and physical activity shared by local musicians, experts and members of the Twin Cities community working to take simple steps to improve their health and lives.
2011 Healthy Living Innovation Award Winner!
The Healthy Living Innovation Awards is a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiative designed to identify and acknowledge innovative health promotion projects within the last 3 years that have demonstrated a significant impact on the health status of a community.
Materials
Support materials for making small lifestyle changes which can lead to a longer, healthier life. The following materials are available in PDF format.
Facts Sheets
Pick one topic every week and follow the simple steps. When you have incorporated those changes into your life, pick a new topic!
- Eat more fruits and vegetables.
- Be more physically active.
- Take smaller portions.
- Eat more whole grains.
- Eat less fatty foods.
- Drink more water.
- Balance energy in, energy out.
Songs
For use in your classroom, community group or at home! Music transcribed by Cheryl Reeves.
Table Tents
Table tents have healthy vending machine options on one side and simple tips for healthy living on the other.
Bookmark
Developed by the Saint Paul Public Schools, this bookmark is a reminder of all the wonderful ways we can move our bodies and the delicious fruits and vegetables we can eat!
Poster
Share the message of eating better and moving more at home, work, school or in the community. Contact us to personalize the poster for your organization.
Language Materials
Educational materials available in Spanish and Somali.
Video clips
The following videos are short clips from the Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota video. They have been placed into categories based on topic. Broadcast the video on your community cable channel, use the clips at your worksite or show in your classroom to begin a discussions about physical activity, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyles.
Staying Fit
48 ½ Hours
A one-minute song highlighting how you can take one half hour each day to feel better through exercise.
Your Body Wants to Move
A 90 second song that demonstrates how we can all feel better by balancing “energy in” and “energy out”.
Exercise your Right
A 2-minute song encouraging us all to have fun, frolic, and feel better!
Mom & Son Talk
A mother and her son talk about how sharing a walk brings us closer together and also helps us feel better.
Tennis
The MLK Tennis Buffs demonstrate and talk about the benefits of lifelong physical activity in an interview with T. Mychael Rambo.
Water
Drink Water (with intro)
Drink water, a catchy 30-second tune that reminds us that water is the natural, nurturing drink, with brief introduction.
Drink Water
Drink water, a catchy 30-second tune that reminds us that water is the natural, nurturing drink.
Water Discussion (long version)
Discussion regarding benefits of drinking thirst quenching, naturally nurturing water.
Water Discussion
Abbreviated discussion regarding benefits of drinking thirst quenching, naturally nurturing water.
Foods
Fruits and Vegetables Song
The children of City Songs delight kids and adults with their musical message to eat fruits and vegetables.
Healthy Shopping Discussion
Useful tips about shopping for healthy foods from T. Mychael Rambo & Kara Millerhagen and Dr. Thomas Kottke.
Fruits and Veggies Discussion
Useful tips about eating fruits and vegetables from Dr. Thomas Kottke.
Reading Labels - registered Dietitian Karen Blanchard, emphasizes the importance of reading labels before choosing food for your table.
Healthy Lifestyles Discussions
Healthy Living discussion (short version)
Co-hosts T. Mychael Rambo and Kara Millerhagen discuss how making lifestyle choices to feel better can be simple. (short version)
Healthy Living discussion (long version)
Co-hosts T. Mychael Rambo and Kara Millerhagen discuss how making lifestyle choices to feel better can be simple. (long version)
Balancing Energy-in and Energy Out discussion
Co-hosts T. Mychael Rambo and Kara Millerhagen discuss “energy in” and “energy out” and share tips to make the choice to exercise easier.
Making Good Decisions
Talking and singing about how today’s a good day to start exercising your right to feel better.