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Getting Fit in Middle Age Can Reduce Heart Failure Risk

New research by the American Heart Association says getting or staying in shape in middle age lowers heart attack risk. Read more.

Kaiser Permanente Journal: Docs Should Recommend Plant-Based Diets

The latest edition of the peer-reviewed medical journal says doctors should push plant-based diets to all patients. Read more.

Vancouver First Canadian City to Officially Endorse Meatless Monday

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson will sign a proclamation declaring June 10, 2013 Meatless Monday. Read more.

C-CAP Meatless Monday Contest Winner in Food Management Magazine

High school senior Lucila Flores took home top honors recently in a national contest sponsored by Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) and Meatless Monday. Read more.

Ad Man’s Meatless Mission

The Wall Street Journal recently spoke with The Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner about Meatless Monday and his support of Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP). Read more.

ShopRite Dietitians Teach Kids Healthy Cooking

ShopRite supermarkets hosted free in-store Kids Cook Monday cooking classes to great success, reports Supermarket News. Read more.

Where’s the Beef? Retailers Serve Up Meat-Free Meal Ideas

Markets across the country are promoting meat-free meals as Meatless Monday gains momentum, Supermarket News reports. Read the article.

More Universities Are Serving Healthier Cuisine to Students

Today’s Dietitian reports that emphasis on nutrition education and increased demand for vegetarian meals is leading more and more colleges to adopt Meatless Monday. Read the article.

Walking on Mondays Looks Like a Healthy, Smart Business Strategy

Physician Ted Eytan says data on walking can be used to support Move It Monday employer initiatives. Read the article at Mobility Lab.

5 Foods For Fast Weight Loss

While there’s no such thing as the perfect diet, there are key foods that research has shown can help you lose weight.

Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center

Successful long-term weight management achieved through diet, exercise and behavior modification.

Meatless Monday: Party for Planet Earth

How can you best celebrate Mother Earth? The biggest present you can give the planet is to show some plant-based love.

Bill Telepan Helps Kids Eat More Veggies, Kick Soda Habit

Since 2008, he has served as the program’s executive chef, developing monthly menus and teaching cafeteria workers how to make more-healthful meals.

Obesity Tied to Prostate Cancer Risk

A new study adds to evidence that obese men may have an increased risk for future prostate cancer.

If It’s Monday, the LA Unified School Cafeteria is Meatless

Los Angeles public schools have just gone meatless on Mondays.

Caregiving Goes To The Oscars

Caregiving Club CEO Sherri Snelling highlights some of the most poignant caregiving moments brought to film in 2012.

Making Meatless Mondays Stick

Making Meatless Mondays Stick

Fox News introduces Meatless Monday menus to their audience by sharing the history of the movement and insights from Founder, Sid Lerner.

Go Red 2013: 10 Ways Women Can Keep Their Hearts Healthy

Go Red 2013: 10 Ways Women Can Keep Their Hearts Healthy

Go Local featured The Monday Campaigns’ top 10 ways that women can stay heart healthy every Monday after Go Red Day.

Mondays & Your Health

Mondays & Your Health

UNC Family Medicine’s radio show, YOUR HEALTH®, discussed the value of Mondays in health promotion with Monday Campaigns Project Director Morgan Johnson, MPH.

Most Ignored Caregiving Task: How Caregivers Can Give Themselves “Me Time”

Most Ignored Caregiving Task: How Caregivers Can Give Themselves “Me Time”

Caregiving expert Sherri Snelling shares her tips for finding Me Time with Third Age, encouraging readers to make Monday they day they consider and plan time to address their own needs.

13 Resolutions for a Better 2013

13 Resolutions for a Better 2013

Allison Righter, Project Director for the Johns Hopkins Meatless Monday Project, was an expert panelist on SELF Magazine’s Google+ chat on healthy New Year’s resolutions. The group of registered dietitians and wellness professionals discussed a variety of nutritious meal ideas and food tips.

The Caregiver Solution to New Year’s Resolutions

The Caregiver Solution to New Year’s Resolutions

The Alzheimer’s Association helps caregivers get 2013 off to a healthy start by sharing Caregiver Monday tips and offering advice on how to make me time fit into their busy schedule.

Two New Internet Calendars for a Kinder, Healthier 2013

Two New Internet Calendars for a Kinder, Healthier 2013

Tens of thousands of smart phone users will now have access to weekly Healthy Monday Tips thanks to Cozi’s new Healthy Mondays Calendar. The Cozi Family Calendar website and app are free to use and provide useful reminders to help manage busy households.

New Year, New Plan for Health

New Year, New Plan for Health

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation profiles The Monday Campaigns as the perfect way to sustain your New Year’s goals throughout 2013.

Your best day to quit smoking: Any Monday

Your best day to quit smoking: Any Monday

Personal finance and self-improvement website Dimespring shares the power of Quit & Stay Quit Monday smoke cessation reminders with their readers.

2013 Tips Now Available!

2013 Tips Now Available!

Get off to a healthy start each week with the help of our Monday tips. You can receive a diet, fitness, stress, or general wellness tips in your inbox each week, join the Monday movement on social media, or get all of our 2013 tips now for your website or publication.

Campaign Offers Smokers 52 Inspirations to Quit

Campaign Offers Smokers 52 Inspirations to Quit

Medical Marketing & Media encourages smokers to kick the habit with Quit & Stay Quit Monday, profiling The Monday Campaigns and the benefit of weekly reminders for better health.

Be Healthy Monday, Decatur

Be Healthy Monday, Decatur

The city of Decatur, Georgia’s community website, Be Active Decatur, features weekly Healthy Monday posts from organizer Cheryl Burnette.

How to Quit Smoking, for Good this Time!

How to Quit Smoking, for Good this Time!

Hispanic news website Voixx highlights Quit and Stay Quit Monday as an effective strategy for smoke cessation.

Dr. Ann Offers Monday Nutrition Advice to NKU Campus

Dr. Ann Offers Monday Nutrition Advice to NKU Campus

Nutrition expert Dr. Ann Kulze offers tips on avoiding holiday weight gain in their Healthy Monday Motivator, a weekly e-newsletter that shares health and wellness news with students and staff at Northern Kentucky University.

Man Up Monday Doubles STD Testing of Young Men

Man Up Monday Doubles STD Testing of Young Men

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia used Man Up Monday promotional materials in conjunction with discounts to encourages young men to get tested and stay healthy.

Mondays Stop the Presses with New Newspaper

Mondays Stop the Presses with New Newspaper

The Monday Campaigns shares the latest Monday moments with our very own newspaper. The Monday Campaigns News made its debut at the 140th annual American Public Health Association conference.

Monday Campaigns Founder Talks Health Marketing at James Beard Conference

Monday Campaigns Founder Talks Health Marketing at James Beard Conference

Monday Campaigns Founder Sid Lerner spoke to a group of distinguished guests at the 2012 James Beard Foundation Food Conference. He discussed the growing Monday movement and shared his motivation for creating a public health marketing campaign.

Kids Get Cooking at Camp

Kids Get Cooking at Camp

The Kids Cook Monday’s recent partnership with the American Camp Association has inspired Camp Towanda to join the movement with a “camper-approved” recipe.

Winona State Creates Monday Midterm Meditations

Winona State Creates Monday Midterm Meditations

WSU’s Healthy Monday’s series presents “Midterm Meditation”: full body relaxation with hot tea, low lights and visual and audio effects. This new Healthy Monday program is available for free to students at the university.

CBS News Cooks Up Healthy Monday Night Recipes

CBS News Cooks Up Healthy Monday Night Recipes

St. Joseph’s Hospital, presents “Healthy Monday Syracuse,” a weekly television segment on CBS news. Every Monday night, St. Joseph’s Certified Executive Chef, Jeffery Mitchell, highlights a healthy and seasonal recipe.

STI Media Campaign Offers Free Promotional Materials

STI Media Campaign Offers Free Promotional Materials

The National Association of County and City Health Officials shared Man Up Monday’s award-winning awareness posters in their weekly HIV/STI e-newsletter.

The Junior League Uses Kids Cook Monday to Battle Obesity

The Junior League Uses Kids Cook Monday to Battle Obesity

The Junior League’s Kids in the Kitchen program counts The Monday Campaigns and Kids Cook Monday as their partners in the fight against childhood obesity.

Mary Evans Elementary Likes to Move It Monday

Mary Evans Elementary Likes to Move It Monday

The PTA at Mary Evans Elementary School in Allen, Texas recruits volunteers to take help students enjoy new Move It Monday events each month.

Healthy Monday Video: Meatless Monday Variety

Healthy Monday Video: Meatless Monday Variety

Syracuse University unveils the latest video in their Healthy Monday series. Students offer healthy, creative ideas for Meatless Monday meals in the campus dining hall.

The Kids Cook Monday Gets Sirius on <i>Martha Stewart Radio</i>

The Kids Cook Monday Gets Sirius on Martha Stewart Radio

The Kids Cook Monday was recently featured on “Life Coaching with Sophie,” a live program available on Sirius XM’s Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Restaurants Helping Customers Stay Within Their Monday 2000 (Calories Per Day!)

Restaurants Helping Customers Stay Within Their Monday 2000 (Calories Per Day!)

The addition of menu calorie counts at fast food restaurants like Shake Shack and McDonalds is boosting awareness of recommended daily ranges, allowing consumers to better control their calorie budget.

Syracuse Announces New Monday Miles on Move It Monday Day

Syracuse Announces New Monday Miles on Move It Monday Day

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner issued a joint proclamation declaring September 10, 2012 Move It Monday Day. The announcement was in celebration of a new series of mile-long walking loops located in county parks and on the campuses of SUNY Upstate Medical University and Syracuse University.

ACA Educational Alliance – The Monday Campaigns

ACA Educational Alliance – The Monday Campaigns

The Kids Cook Monday has teamed up with the American Camp Association to share health and wellness resources with over 2,400 camps nationwide.

Mondays Make the McClatchy Newspaper Network

Mondays Make the McClatchy Newspaper Network

Healthy Monday tips are coming to McClatchy’s national network of newspapers! First posted in the Orlando-Sentinel, weekly tips will now be syndicated in the Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, and The Detroit Free Press, among other publications.

Video Shows City’s Healthy Monday Program in Action

Video Shows City’s Healthy Monday Program in Action

The Barren River Health Department offered a seminar on the Healthy Monday program, complete with a Meatless Monday cooking demonstration.

USDA Rescinds Meatless Monday Recommendation

USDA Rescinds Meatless Monday Recommendation

TIME reports on the USDA’s retracted recommendation that employees try Meatless Monday for personal and environmental health.

Family Caregivers: 5 ‘Peace of Mind’ Resources to Make Summer Vacations Possible

Family Caregivers: 5 ‘Peace of Mind’ Resources to Make Summer Vacations Possible

The Caregiving Partnership offers resources –including the Caregiver’s Monday toolkit with 25 healthy tips- to help caregivers focus on their own needs and wellbeing.

About.com Healthy Monday Weight Loss Tips

About.com Healthy Monday Weight Loss Tips

About.com’s Weight Loss Guide Malia Frey now offers weekly Healthy Monday tips to help readers focus on healthy alternatives to overeating and maintain their weight loss.

Council Implementing Healthy Initiative

Council Implementing Healthy Initiative

BG Daily News reports that the Barren River Community Health Planning Council is looking into Healthy Monday programs to increase healthy eating and physical activity in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

UB Receives Grant to Launch Healthy Monday Campaign

UB Receives Grant to Launch Healthy Monday Campaign

The University of Bridgeport has received an American College Health Foundation grant to bring the Healthy Monday Campaign to campus!

Valley Hospital Reduces its Carbon Food-Print

Valley Hospital Reduces its Carbon Food-Print

Valley Hospital in New Jersey is launching Meatless Monday to encourage healthier and more sustainable eating among patients, visitors and staff.

Tips for Including Kids in Cooking

Tips for Including Kids in Cooking

The Family Dinner Project shares expert advice for getting families in the kitchen and around the table each Monday

Caregiving Club Celebrates Sandwich Generation with Me Time Monday Videos

Caregiving Club Celebrates Sandwich Generation with Me Time Monday Videos

The Caregiving Club supports The Caregiver’s Monday Campaign and raises awareness of those caring for both their children and aging parents with short videos and tips focused on personal wellbeing.

Survey Results from Sodexo’s Meatless Monday Initiative

Survey Results from Sodexo’s Meatless Monday Initiative

The Center for a Livable Future reports on the success of Meatless Monday promotions at Sodexo corporate, government and hospital clients.

The Kids Cook Monday on HubPages (And So Can Yours!)

The Kids Cook Monday on HubPages (And So Can Yours!)

HubPages creates a Kids Cook Monday community with weekly bloggers and encourages other “hubbers” to join TKCM movement.

Planned Parenthood Introduces Man Up Mondays

Planned Parenthood Introduces Man Up Mondays

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia is now using Man Up Monday promotional materials to encourage men to start the week with STI/STD testing.

Caregiving Challenges Today — How Health Professionals Can Help

Caregiving Challenges Today — How Health Professionals Can Help

In an interview with Surround Health, Sherri Snelling of the Caregiving Club explains how Monday videos, tips and promotions can help caregivers add “me time” to their weekly routine.

Quit & Stay Quit Monday Tip Makes UK News

Quit & Stay Quit Monday Tip Makes UK News

The Mirror reports on how Britons can use Monday to quit and stay quit after national No Smoke Day.

Monday Tips on the Lotsa Helping Hands Webinar Series

Monday Tips on the Lotsa Helping Hands Webinar Series

Sherri Snelling of the Caregiving Club shares insights about Caregivers Monday on ‘Spousal Caregiving: One Woman’s Love Story,’ a webinar from the Lotsa Helping Hands Community.

Women’s Health Says Make Monday Red for Your Heart

Women’s Health Says Make Monday Red for Your Heart

Women’s Health encourages reader to “take their Monday routine one step further by donning a scarlet accessory.” Going red can help start a conversation about blood pressure, cholesterol, and other heart disease indicators.

Sid Lerner- Hero for Health

Sid Lerner- Hero for Health

Heroes for Health Radio profiles Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner. Host Jeff Popick discusses the history of Meatless Monday and the benefits of the growing Monday movement.

Meatless Monday Makes The Chew

Meatless Monday Makes The Chew

Meatless Monday was the theme of a recent episode of the food and lifestyle show, The Chew. The hosts explained the benefits of eating less meat and shared healthy recipes with viewers.

Healthy Monday Tips Help Your Resolutions Stick All Year

Healthy Monday Tips Help Your Resolutions Stick All Year

Fitness Magazine helps readers stay fit with weekly Healthy Monday tips and motivational images on their Pinterest page.

MorningStar Farms Cooks up a Healthier New Year With Meatless Monday

MorningStar Farms Cooks up a Healthier New Year With Meatless Monday

MorningStar Farms joins forces with the Meatless Monday campaign to make every week a new chance to improve eating habits. They will offer weekly contests and wellness advice via social media.

Smarter, Healthier Way to Go

Smarter, Healthier Way to Go

The Maxwell Perspective of Syracuse University reports on alumnus and former ad man Sid Lerner, who founded Healthy Monday as a marriage of good health, good policy and effective PR.

NDSU Wellness Center promotes Health Monday Challenge

NDSU Wellness Center promotes Health Monday Challenge

The North Dakota State University Wellness Center is promoting the Healthy Monday Challenge to encourage students to use Monday each week as a day to start improving their health.

Want to Promote Behavior Change? Try Leveraging the Periodicity of Mondays

Want to Promote Behavior Change? Try Leveraging the Periodicity of Mondays

SurroundHealth interviews Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner, President Peggy Neu and Project Leader Morgan Johnson, MPH about the boost Monday brings to healthy habits.

Healthy Mondays: Your Healthiest Year Yet!

Healthy Mondays: Your Healthiest Year Yet!

Women’s Day starts a year of Healthy Monday tips, tapping the “Monday surge” to help readers achieve their 2012 goals!

How Social Media Can Help Caregivers

How Social Media Can Help Caregivers

AARP shows caregivers how they can utilize The Caregiving Club’s “Me Time Monday” tips and other online networks to get the support they need.

A Reason to Like Mondays in 2012

A Reason to Like Mondays in 2012

The Examiner reports on the power of Healthy Monday to help individuals start and sustain healthy habits in the New Year.

Piggly Wiggly Uses Pharmacy to Promote Healthier Eating

Piggly Wiggly Uses Pharmacy to Promote Healthier Eating

Progressive Grocer shows how Monday promotions at the pharmacy can help customers make better dietary choices throughout the week.

Healthy Monday is On Air

Healthy Monday is On Air

Syracuse radio’s HealthLink On Air interviews Upstate’s Donna Bacchi and Syracuse University’s Thomas Dennison about the Healthy Monday campaign.

Meatless Monday Makes the Dean’s List

Meatless Monday Makes the Dean’s List

Johns Hopkins Dean Michael J. Klag includes the successes of Meatless Monday and the Center for a Livable Future in his official Fall 2011 letter.

Tips for People Deciding to Quit

Tips for People Deciding to Quit

ABC News and the American Cancer Society’s Dr. Thomas Glynn suggest quitting smoking on a Monday for long-term success.

Kick Your Smoking Habit

Kick Your Smoking Habit

Women’s Health Magazine recommends that smokers use Quit and Stay Quit Monday to stop after the Great American Smokeout.

Mondays Receive 2011 PHANYC Award

Mondays Receive 2011 PHANYC Award

Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner was honored at the 2011 PHANYC awards for his dedication to public health marketing.

How to Stay Quit After the Great American Smokeout

How to Stay Quit After the Great American Smokeout

Quit & Stay Quit Monday helps Smokeout quitters stay on track by using Monday as the day to recommit and re-quit if they relapse

‘Healthy Mondays’ Good Recipe for Central New York

‘Healthy Mondays’ Good Recipe for Central New York

Central New York’s healthcare newspaper, In Good Health, reports on the Lerner Center and Syracuse University’s dedication to public health marketing and promotion.

The CareGiver Partnership Celebrates Caregivers’ Month with Tips, Daily Tweets

The CareGiver Partnership Celebrates Caregivers’ Month with Tips, Daily Tweets

The CareGiver Partnership celebrates National Family Caregiver’s Month by offering 25 Healthy Tips and daily Tweets by the Caregiver’s Monday campaign.

Monday Campaigns at APHA

Monday Campaigns at APHA

The Monday Campaigns was in attendance at the 139th annual American Public Health Association Meeting and Exposition. This year’s meeting showcased the role of communities in public health promotion, making it the perfect opportunity to learn more about how Mondays can support healthy behavior change.

Syracuse University Alumnus Makes Monday the Perfect  Day to do Healthy Things

Syracuse University Alumnus Makes Monday the Perfect Day to do Healthy Things

Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner is teaming up with alma mater Syracuse University to launch the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion.

SU Adopts National Health Initiative

SU Adopts National Health Initiative

Video shows Syracuse University’s Healthy Monday campaign in action.

About.com’s Quit and Stay Quit Monday Tip of the Week

About.com’s Quit and Stay Quit Monday Tip of the Week

It is never too late to quit smoking. Let’s take a look at what happens inside our bodies after we smoke that last cigarette.

Monday Campaigns President Peggy Neu

Monday Campaigns President Peggy Neu

profiles Meatless Monday Jamaica and Meatless Monday – Philippines on The Huffington Post.

Piggly Wiggly Carolina to bring Healthy Monday initiative to stores.

Piggly Wiggly Carolina to bring Healthy Monday initiative to stores.

Goal is to help promote healthy eating at stores’ pharmacies

Caring.com Self Caring’s column highlights Caregivers’ Monday

Caring.com Self Caring’s column highlights Caregivers’ Monday

Blog explains why caregivers can look forward to Monday

Spotlight on Northern Kentucky University

Spotlight on Northern Kentucky University

USA Today College reports on Northern Kentucky’s “Let’s Talk Monday” initiative.

Upstate Embraces Healthy Monday

Upstate Embraces Healthy Monday

Upstate Medical University is partnering with Syracuse University to inspire healthy behavior with an ongoing national Healthy Monday campaign.

The CareGiver Partnership Joins Forces with Caregivers’ Monday

The CareGiver Partnership Joins Forces with Caregivers’ Monday

The CareGiver Partnership has joined forces with Caregivers’ Monday to offer discounts on home health care products and to remind caregivers to also take measures for their own health.

Cleveland Moves it Monday!

Cleveland Moves it Monday!

The Cleveland Clinic launches Move it Monday at Progressive Field with the help of dancers from the hit musical Jersey Boys.

Healthy Monday Campaigns Launch in Cincinnati

Healthy Monday Campaigns Launch in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Health Department, go Vibrant, and the NKY Healthy Monday Coalition is “Creating Healthy Communities starting with Mondays”. Learn More.

Harmons Gets Kids Cooking on Monday

Harmons Gets Kids Cooking on Monday

Supermarket news reports that Harmons has become the first grocery chain to offer hands on Kids Cook Monday classes.

PBS Parents Says Let The Kids Cook Monday!

PBS Parents Says Let The Kids Cook Monday!

PBS Parents’ Kitchen Explorers highlights the Kids Cook Monday, asking families to share their original recipes.

National Cancer Institute Launches Healthy Monday Challenge to Help Smokers Stay Quit.

National Cancer Institute Launches Healthy Monday Challenge to Help Smokers Stay Quit.

Poll shows that smokers pick Monday as best day to quit. People who accept the Healthy Monday Challenge can commit each week by joining a team and working towards a healthy goal.

Meatless Monday Reaches 50% National Awareness

Meatless Monday Reaches 50% National Awareness

Huffington Post reports on FGI research that awareness of Meatless Monday in the U.S. is now at 50.22% — up from 30% just 6 months ago. This awareness is translating into behavior change: Of those aware, 27.47% said that Meatless Monday had influenced their decision to cut back on meat.

T.G.I.M. – Making Monday Meatless

T.G.I.M. – Making Monday Meatless

Author Bonnie Taub-Dix profiles the Meatless Monday Movement in USA Today.

Parade Presents The Kids Cook Monday!

Parade Presents The Kids Cook Monday!

The Kids Cook Monday was featured in Parade Magazine’s Stay Healthy column as the “Smart Move of the Week”. Parade will continue to feature Kids Cook Monday recipes online each week.

52 Chances- A Fresh Shot at Health Every Monday

52 Chances- A Fresh Shot at Health Every Monday

Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine features The Monday Campaigns research, history and future in their May 2011 issue.

U of Rochester Stresses Less with Healthy Monday

U of Rochester Stresses Less with Healthy Monday

The University of Rochester’s Active Minds organization has teamed up with Healthy Monday to run Stress Less Monday events with the goal of creating an open dialogue about mental health and student well-being.

Move It Monday Makes Morning Show

Move It Monday Makes Morning Show

KCCI 8 in Des Moines now has their own Move It Monday fitness segment. Each week anchor Molly Nelson reports on a new way to keep moving and stay healthy.

Introducing The Kids Cook Monday!

Introducing The Kids Cook Monday!

The Monday Campaigns launches our newest initiative to help families cook and eat together once a week. TheKidsCookMonday.org offers tips and recipes, making it easy to share nutritious family dinners.

Dutch University Offers Meatless Monday

Dutch University Offers Meatless Monday

Sustainability group Project Helder introduced Meatless Monday at the Delft University of Technology and made a short film chronicling their efforts.

Sugar Land Shapes Up with Healthy Monday

Sugar Land Shapes Up with Healthy Monday

Sugar Land Texas has started a Healthy Monday movement! Shape Up Sugar Land and the Mayor’s Fitness Council are using Healthy Monday to highlight nutritious meal choices in the area.

Northern Kentucky Battles Obesity with Local Action

Northern Kentucky Battles Obesity with Local Action

Northern Kentucky’s Healthy Monday efforts were highlighted on WVXU Cincinnati.  Panelists discussed local efforts to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic.

Oprah Offers Meatless Monday at Harpo Studios

Oprah Offers Meatless Monday at Harpo Studios

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey announced that Harpo studios will now offer Meatless Monday meal options and also encouraged her audience to give the campaign a try.

Sodexo Launches Nationwide Meatless Monday Program

Sodexo Launches Nationwide Meatless Monday Program

Institutional feeder Sodexo now offers Meatless Monday menus and materials to their nationwide network of colleges, hospitals, worksites and government agencies.

Healthy Monday and Chef Marcus Samuelsson Empower Teens 2B Healthy

Healthy Monday and Chef Marcus Samuelsson Empower Teens 2B Healthy

The Healthy Monday Campaign was on hand for the “Empowered-2B-Healthy” youth forum. Teens learned strategies for obesity prevention, including healthy recipes from Chef Marcus Samuelsson.

Kentucky Uses Monday to get Residents Talking

Kentucky Uses Monday to get Residents Talking

Northern Kentucky University announces their “Lets Talk” Monday campaign, encouraging community dialogue about obesity and fitness.

Cincinnati Goes Vibrant with Healthy Monday

Cincinnati Goes Vibrant with Healthy Monday

Soapbox Cincinnati reports that the city’s new Go Vibrant campaign is using Healthy Monday to encourage residents to recommit to health each week.

Recipalooza Contest Challenges Families to let The Kids Cook Monday

Recipalooza Contest Challenges Families to let The Kids Cook Monday

Playnormous and The Children’s Museum of Houston team up with The Kids Cook Monday for an interactive recipe contest.

University of Northern Colorado Tallies Healthy Behaviors

University of Northern Colorado Tallies Healthy Behaviors

The University of Northern Colorado now offers a wide array of Healthy Monday campus programs. Their Healthy Monday Scorecard allows students to track their progress, see weekly tips and stay updated on event information.

Pearlridge Offers Screenings for Shoppers

Pearlridge Offers Screenings for Shoppers

Pearlridge Shopping Center in Hawaii offers weekly Healthy Monday events for seniors, including blood pressure and diabetes screenings and stress reduction programs.

Floridians Get Fit with Healthy Monday Tips

Floridians Get Fit with Healthy Monday Tips

The Orlando Sentinel’s Fitness Center now offers Healthy Monday tips on through their website, Twitter account and mobile services.

Change Can Come More Than Once a Year

Change Can Come More Than Once a Year

The Columbia Daily Tribune shows how Monday can be used to stick to New Years resolutions.

Greenwood Lakes adds Healthy Monday to the Curriculum

Greenwood Lakes adds Healthy Monday to the Curriculum

Greenwood Lakes Middle School, part of Florida’s Seminole County Public School system, brings Healthy Monday into the classroom with weekly newsletters, student challenges, field trips and lesson plans.

Keep Resolutions with Healthy Monday

Keep Resolutions with Healthy Monday

LifeWants.com offers straightforward tips on making and keeping New Years Resolutions, suggesting Healthy Monday as a way to maintain your motivation.

Nourish Interactive Offers Seasonal Snacks

Nourish Interactive Offers Seasonal Snacks

Child nutrition site Nourish Interactive includes Meatless Monday recipes in their Kid’s Holiday Cookbook.

Healthy Monday Boosts Harlem Prevention Campaigns

Healthy Monday Boosts Harlem Prevention Campaigns

The Monday Campaigns teams up with The City College of NY and urban community organizers to bring diabetes prevention and smoke cessation programs to Harlem.

Mondays Can Help You Be Healthier

Mondays Can Help You Be Healthier

Snack Girl Lisa Cain asks The Monday Campaigns how weekly reminders can boost healthy behavior.

Mondays May Prompt Positive Behavior

Mondays May Prompt Positive Behavior

Yahoo! encourages readers to make Monday ‘the day all health breaks lose’ by visiting the “informative and fun” Monday Campaigns website.

CLF shows the benefits of Monday health messages
The Hamptons Loves NY Water

The Hamptons Loves NY Water

I love NY water bottles were given to attendees of the Hamptons International Film Festival to raise awareness about the health and environmental benefits of drinking tap water. For more information on the I heart NY Water Campaign contact us.

Prevention cooks up Meatless Monday press

Prevention cooks up Meatless Monday press

Prevention.com features Meatless Monday on their homepage, along with four meatless meals.

How Mondays can save your life
The Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner interview with Allison Aubrey

The Monday Campaigns founder Sid Lerner interview with Allison Aubrey

NPR Morning Edition (August 2010)

Foodista.com launches The Kids Cook Monday contest

Foodista.com launches The Kids Cook Monday contest

Cooking encyclopedia launches The Kids Cook Monday kid-friendly recipe contest to help families cook and eat together every Monday.

Meatless Mondays, a movement that has legs

Meatless Mondays, a movement that has legs

Jane Black in the Washington Post (May 2010)

It’s Meatless Monday: Don’t Have a Cow

It’s Meatless Monday: Don’t Have a Cow

Amanda M. Fairbanks interviews Sid Lerner, founder of The Monday Campaigns, for GOOD Magazine (May 2010)

The Fight for Fitness blog encourages Monday movement

The Fight for Fitness blog encourages Monday movement

Fitness specialist fights preventable diseases with expertise and weekly challenges.

Christina Roberto, M.S., talks about 2000 calorie recommendation

Christina Roberto, M.S., talks about 2000 calorie recommendation

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity researcher Christina Roberto discusses her recent study on how calorie information on menus improves food choices.

Get Fit and Well blog posts Monday tips

Get Fit and Well blog posts Monday tips

Get a little extra motivation each week on this blog, offering unique insights to Healthy Monday’s weekly tips for readers.

Monday partner receives top APHA honor

Monday partner receives top APHA honor

The 2009 Sedgwick Award Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health was presented to Dr. Robert Lawrence of Johns Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future.

‘Meatless Monday’, Aimed At Delivering Healthier Food For Less, Comes To City Schools

‘Meatless Monday’, Aimed At Delivering Healthier Food For Less, Comes To City Schools

Baltimore Sun

Small changes lower chronic disease risk

Small changes lower chronic disease risk

Two new studies confirm that making small changes can improve health. Starting each week with healthier behaviors makes a difference!

Dr. Sanjay Gupta says Healthy Monday an “inspiration”

Dr. Sanjay Gupta says Healthy Monday an “inspiration”

CNN trumpets Healthy Monday tips as great way to stay on track with health goals.

52 Chances to Recharge on Huff Post

52 Chances to Recharge on Huff Post

Sarah Newman says Mondays provide the perfect opportunity to rejuvenate your health.

APHA says Mondays can keep us on track

APHA says Mondays can keep us on track

The Nation’s Health June/July issue features an interview with the Monday Campaign’s President Peggy Neu.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: frequent reminders work

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: frequent reminders work

Dr. Gupta reports in TIME on a new study showing the healthful benefits of periodic prompts.

Fitness expert endorses Monday 2000

Fitness expert endorses Monday 2000

Respected fitness expert Chris Freytag says we should all watch our calories with the Monday 2000.

Johns Hopkins research: Monday’s effectiveness

Johns Hopkins research: Monday’s effectiveness

A literature review portraying the effectiveness of periodic prompts in health interventions is published in The Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Pollan advocates for Mondays on Oprah

Pollan advocates for Mondays on Oprah

Best-selling author Michael Pollan joined the growing coalition of health and nutrition experts advocating for meatless Mondays.

Fox News on MONDAY 2000

Fox News on MONDAY 2000

Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, host of Sunday Housecall, describes the value of the MONDAY 2000 campaign to budget calories for successful weight loss and maintenance. (Video)

Chicago’s American Cancer Society backs Stay Quit Monday

Chicago’s American Cancer Society backs Stay Quit Monday

ACS’s Joy Rosenberg encourages smokers to keep New Year’s resolutions by recommitting to stay quit each week. (PDF)

Setting Goals That Stick

Setting Goals That Stick

About.com:Health home page (January 2009) (PDF)

Quit & Stay Quit Monday Interview

Quit & Stay Quit Monday Interview

KTHR 740AM in Houston (November 2008) (Audio)

NPR Interview with Healthy Monday President, Peggy Neu

NPR Interview with Healthy Monday President, Peggy Neu

WEAA 88.9FM, Baltimore (November 2008)

America’s Doctor on Fox News

America’s Doctor on Fox News

Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, host of Sunday Housecall on FOX News Channel, urges viewers to quit smoking – and shows how Monday can help. (Video)

Healthy Monday and About.com Health Launch Quit Smoking Monday

Healthy Monday and About.com Health Launch Quit Smoking Monday

Healthy Monday and About.com Health Launch Quit Smoking Monday MSN Money (August 2008) (PDF)

FreshDirect Sales Boosted as a Result of “Healthy Mondays”

FreshDirect Sales Boosted as a Result of “Healthy Mondays”

Supermarket News (April 2008) (PDF)

Mardi Gras Means Lean Times Ahead, But That Doesn’t Mean the Party’s Over

Mardi Gras Means Lean Times Ahead, But That Doesn’t Mean the Party’s Over

Yahoo News (February 2008) (PDF)

Harvard Heart Letter advocates Mondays

Harvard Heart Letter advocates Mondays

The Harvard Heart Letter tells readers don’t wait for the “big days” (January 1, birthdays or anniversaries): make Monday the day all health breaks loose. (PDF)

The Healthy Monday Movement Offers Unique New Year’s Idea

The Healthy Monday Movement Offers Unique New Year’s Idea

Forbes (January 2008)

Jenny Craig launches new Monday ads

Jenny Craig launches new Monday ads

Ate too much this weekend, didn’t get any exercise? It’s time to get back on track with your diet. In a new ad for Jenny, actress Valerie Bertinelli asks, “It’s Monday – have you called Jenny yet?”

Healthy Monday: Resolutions, A Week At A Time

Healthy Monday: Resolutions, A Week At A Time

Environmental News Network

SU’s healthy reality show wins 2007 Telly Award

SU’s healthy reality show wins 2007 Telly Award

The Healthy Show, produced by Syracuse’s Healthy Monday Campus initiative, won a Telly award for Video Production in the category of Health and Wellness.

Jenny gives Monday motivational messages

Jenny gives Monday motivational messages

More than 155,000 Jenny Craig members nationwide have opted to receive motivational messages on Monday to keep them focused and on target to meet their weight loss goals.

Today’s the Day that All Health Could Break Loose for Marketers

Today’s the Day that All Health Could Break Loose for Marketers

The New Advertising Pitch for Healthy Monday Advertising Age (PDF)

About.com Health Guides Discover Monday

About.com Health Guides Discover Monday

About.com

Targeting Mondays: Getting People to Think About Health, One Day at a Time

Targeting Mondays: Getting People to Think About Health, One Day at a Time

Quad-City Times

Columbia University Organizes Healthy Monday Initiative

Columbia University Organizes Healthy Monday Initiative

PR Week (PDF)

Easy Ways To Ease Up On Your Body

Easy Ways To Ease Up On Your Body

Forbes

Monday: A Day to Change Health Habits

Monday: A Day to Change Health Habits

In Vivo

A Healthy Start for Healthy Monday Campaign

A Healthy Start for Healthy Monday Campaign

At the Frontline

WSAZ broadcasts Healthy Monday segments

WSAZ broadcasts Healthy Monday segments

Reporter Melanie Chapman decodes healthy beverages in this first Monday health report from Charleston, South Carolina. Watch video

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New Man Up Monday Campaign Doubles STD Testing of Young Men in Virginia Trial by Planned Parenthood (Oct. 2012)

New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Helps Consumers Munch More Greens (Oct. 2012)

Millions of Family Caregivers Need to Care for Themselves (July 2012)

Summertime and the Grilling is Easy: 10 Tips for Tasty, Healthy Meals from Meatless Monday (July 2012)

ZisBoomBah.com and The Kids Cook Monday Help Families Start the Week with Healthy Habits (April 2012)

Paul McCartney Launches The Meat Free Monday Cookbook (March 2012)

New Survey Shows Shift Toward More Plant-based Options with Sodexo Meatless Monday Initiative (April 2012)

Planned Parenthood Introduces Man Up Mondays (Feb 2012)

Raise Heart Health Awareness All Year Long ... Make Every Monday “Wear Red” Day (Jan 2012)

Take a Big Fat Break this Mardi Gras Because Carnival Means "So long" to Meat (Jan 2012)

How Monday Can Help You Stick To Your New Year's Resolutions (Dec 2011)

How to Stay Quit After the Great American Smokeout (Nov 2011)

The Cincinnati Health Department, go Vibrant, and the NKY Healthy Monday Coalition is “Creating Healthier Communities starting with Mondays” (June 2011) Word doc

Sodexo Offers Meatless Monday Option to Promote Health and Wellness (Jan 2011)

How to Stay Quit After the GASO? Try 'The Magic of Mondays' (Nov 2010) PDF

A New Way to Have Family Dinner: The Kids Cook Monday! (Sept 2010) Word doc

Chancellor Rhee Presents “Let's Move It Monday” Awards (May 2010) Word doc

Celebrity Chef Mario Batali Embraces Meatless Monday (May 2010) Word doc

This New Years, Smokers Get 52 Chances to Stay Quit (Jan 2010) Word doc

First Aid for Smokeout Quitters: Quit and Stay Quit Monday (Nov 2009) PDF

Mardi Gras Gives Big Fat Break as Carnival Means “So long” to Meat (Feb 2009) PDF

‘Go Red for Women' Gets Stronger by the Week (Feb 2009) PDF

Health Gurus Say Resolve to Quit Smoking – One Week at a Time (Jan 2009) PDF

Healthy Monday & About.com Launch Quit Smoking Monday (Sept 2009) PDF

What's new with the Great American Smokeout? (Nov 2008) PDF