{"id":8167,"date":"2018-03-16T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:39:29","slug":"su-salud-si-cuenta-participant-becomes-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"Su Salud Si Cuenta Participant Becomes Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8160\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FullSizeR1001002003004005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8160\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FullSizeR1001002003004005.jpg\" alt=\"Program participants pointing at Samantha Rodriguez, wearing pink at center of picture. Courtesy photo.\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FullSizeR1001002003004005.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FullSizeR1001002003004005-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FullSizeR1001002003004005-405x142.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program participants pointing at Samantha Rodriguez, wearing pink at center of picture. Courtesy photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A local woman who previously believed her life was kind of meaningless has been named a role model after making a drastic change for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Rodriguez met Friday, March 2 with the same people she participates in a program called Community Health Outreach that offers a variety of things such as exercises, nutrition classes and screening all at no cost to those who enroll in the program.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 months of participation, Rodriguez shed 171 pounds and she now feels totally different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not think much about how my life was,\u201d said the 28 years old woman. \u201cBut now, I feel I am a different person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said was able to reduce her weight through a combination of exercises, cutting down meal portions and buying and eating more fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>She met at the city park with a group of people she has been getting together for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Christina De La Rosa, who is in charge of running the program, said she meets with each participant on a one-to-one basis for support and follow-ups.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to join the program please call 956-312-1406.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell A local woman who previously believed her life was kind of meaningless has been named a role model after making a drastic change for the better. Samantha Rodriguez met Friday, March 2 with the same people she participates in a program called Community Health Outreach that offers a variety of things such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","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\/8167","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=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}