Community Health Fair @ JABSOM, Fri, 1/8, 12pm

Community Health Fair
12 noon - 3pm
Friday, January 8, 2010
UH School of Medicine

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) will sponsor a free community health fair this Friday, January 8, at the medical school’s Kaka‘ako campus from 12 noon until 3 p.m.

Highlights:

• Free blood pressure, BMI, glucose, and other health screenings
• Door prizes & free samples of nutritional items
• Acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, Native Hawaiian healing, Chinese & herbal medicine, and massage demonstrations and nutrition counseling by Med School faculty
• Keynote speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani, will give a talk at 2pm. He is the author of the popular books "THe Hawaii Diet" and "Eat More, Weigh Less."
• Yoga demonstration at 1pm
• Over 50 vendors, such as Whole Foods, YMCA, American Cancer Society, National Kidney Foundation.
  

The fair is organized annually by the school’s first and second year medical students.

For more information: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/about/news.php?categoryid=4&articleid=823