Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition Presents Third-Annual Vive tu Vida! Get Up! Get...

Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition Presents Third-Annual Vive tu Vida! Get Up!
Get Moving!(TM) Event

Thousands Expected for Healthy Lifestyle Celebration

Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley Declare June 27, 2009 Vive tu Vida!
Get Up! Get Moving Day! in Chicago and State of Illinois

CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 60 health and community services
agencies will join the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition to present Chicago's
third-annual Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!(TM) celebration. The event
promotes family physical activity for better health and wellness for people of
all ages and all sizes. The event will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
at McKinley Park Fieldhouse at 2210 West Pershing Road (at the corner of West
Pershing and South Western Blvd.) in Chicago. The event is FREE and open to
the public.

Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!(TM) reminds us that people of all ages and
sizes can make movement a part of their daily lives -- and have fun doing it!
Dance, learn a new activity, or walk with family or friends. "There are
hundreds of ways to 'get up and get moving' for your health," says Esther
Sciamarella, executive director of the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition.

Proclamations declaring Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!(TM) day will be
issued by Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley highlighting the State
and City's commitment to "exercise: mind, body & spirit -- it is how to live!"

This exciting event is expected to attract thousands and will feature FREE
health screenings including cholesterol, blood pressure, immunizations, and
eye exams, as well as health information for all participants. Among the fun
FREE family activities scheduled are Fun Kick soccer clinics sponsored by the
Chicago Fire; tennis clinics, including lessons for youth, sponsored by the
Midwest Tennis Association; a basketball hoops tourney; dance lessons; safe
bike lessons; and Zumba! FREE Raffles will also take place throughout the
event for kids bikes; family-pack tickets to the Chicago Fire soccer game that
evening against the Tigres UANL; Antonio Solis, Pepe Aguilar, and Wisin and
Yandel concert tickets; and much more.

The event will also feature the "Artery Explorer," a multi-sensory motion
simulator ride that takes people on a virtual tour of the heart and
illustrates the importance of vascular health. The simulator is part of
AstraZeneca's "US Against Athero" national tour that brings a positive message
about the steps we can all take for our heart health.

"Making movement a daily part of your life is one of the most important steps
you can take for your and your family's health," says Jane L. Delgado, PhD,
MS, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health. "We are
grateful to our national sponsors for their support of these family health
events and thank AstraZeneca for helping us make heart health information
available, Univision Communications for working to get the word out about the
events, and the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) and U.S. Soccer Foundation for
making tennis and soccer clinics a part of a great day of fun activities for
the whole family!"

SOURCE National Alliance for Hispanic Health

Carmen Cruz, +1-404-408-2103, clcruz@effectivemediagroup.com, for National
Alliance for Hispanic Health