{"id":10209,"date":"2019-05-10T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2019-05-10T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:43:04","slug":"los-fresnos-residents-benefit-from-citys-health-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10209","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos Residents Benefit from City\u2019s Health Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10218\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10218\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/exercise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/exercise.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/exercise-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/exercise-405x178.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in Los Fresnos Health Outreach Program at the city\u2019s Memorial Park. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has been two years since Nelly Garza started participating in the Los Fresnos Community Health Outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Back then she weighed 267 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Garza weighs just a bit over 162 pounds and that has changed her life for the better \u2013 health wise and personally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel real good today,\u201d she said, while taking a break at the city\u2019s Memorial Park where she and a dozen others take Zumba classes five days a week. \u201cI still would like to lose a little more but the most important thing for me is to be healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garza said she exercises twice a day and eats healthy foods such as plenty of fruits, vegetables, nuts and drinks plenty of water.<\/p>\n<p>She said her husband, Rodolfo, has also been a program participant and they both enjoy taking Zumba, which is a form of exercise done with loud and fast paced music.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Garza was recognized by the city\u2019s funded program managed by Christine Martinez, the city\u2019s community health worker.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said the program was created five years ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10219\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10219\" class=\"wp-image-10219\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized_20190501_115806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized_20190501_115806.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Resized_20190501_115806-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Fresnos resident Nelly Garza. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The program aims to promote a healthy lifestyle through exercise and healthy eating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s to encourage the community to stay healthy and active,\u201d she said. \u201cWe offer such things as nutrition and diabetic prevention classes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program operates all year around and is open to children, adults and seniors free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said about 1,500 people have participated in the program since its creation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please call 956-233-5768.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN It has been two years since Nelly Garza started participating in the Los Fresnos Community Health Outreach. Back then she weighed 267 pounds. Today, Garza weighs just a bit over 162 pounds and that has changed her life for the better \u2013 health wise and personally. \u201cI feel real good today,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}