The Daily Southerner, Tarboro, NC

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May 10, 2012

50 attended Healthy Living Fair 2012

Staff Writer Mayah Collins

TARBORO — “Every since 2000, I have been diagnosed with high blood pressure,” Michele Wiggins said.

Wiggins is a Tarboro resident who has lived in the community for nearly 30 years. She said the “Healthy Living Fair” hosted by Vidant Edgecombe Hospital on Monday was very beneficial to her. The event was held in the Mobley Atrium at Edgecombe Community College on the Tarboro campus. Generally, collecting pamphlets on manageing stress levels were the most helpful to Wiggins she said.

“I wanted to come out to get more information on how to manage my high blood pressure and also how to loose weight,” Wiggins said. “Anytime that I see a health fair anywhere, I always attend it whenever I can, because of my condition.”

The free health fair was offered to the public to teach them about quality health services available in their community.

Approximately 25 vendors from Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Raleigh, Nashville, Macclessfield and Ahoskie handed out helpful information to nearly 50 students and community members combined. Health screenings were also offered.

Vendors ranged from nutrition and foot and ankle treatment to heartburn treatment and postural management.

Linda Tyson, Tarboro resident, brought her mother, Ruth James, to the event, “to see what they had to offer the community.”

After visiting the Moore Chiropractic table, Tyson found out the root to the headaches she has endured for many years.

“I have been having problems with my shoulder and back and did not know it was because of the job I have been with for 30 years,” she said. “Leaning over has caused a lot of my headaches and that is the main reason why my back is off, so I'm going to see him (Dr. Greg Moore, Chiropractor) to see how I can get this problem fixed.”

The health fair not only provided valuable information to adults, but children as well said Babs Harrell. She visited several vendors with her sons Bronson, 6, and Jameson, 4.

 “When you live here, sometimes you don’t know all of the stuff that’s going on in the area, so it was nice to take the boys here to learn,” she said. “They got to see all of what Tarboro and Rocky Mount have to offer. They really liked the healthy eating table (the Vidant Edgecombe Nutrition Department table), where they could decide what was healthy food from the display provided.”

Harrell’s favorite part of the event was meeting new people.

She said, “If there’s events in the community, we would like to go! We lived in Tarboro for a while, but I don’t know if I know half of the people here. Coming out was also to just get to know other people in the community that I wouldn't otherwise have meet.”









 

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