Feast for Your Brain engages both body and mind
Members of DanceSequences, an organization that promotes inclusion through movement and group dance, perform in the Health Sciences Innovation Building Forum during the second annual Feast for Your Brain community event.
The second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event sponsored by the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the Precision Aging Network and MindCrowd was held Sept. 23 on the UArizona Health Sciences campus in Tucson. It included performances, presentations, music, health services, games, mind-body exercises, food and a raffle.
With over 500 attendees, the event focused on healthy aging practices with 35 information tables, 13 presenters and 11 performances by community organizations. Feast for Your Brain brings together healthy aging experts from across UArizona Health Sciences, alongside community partners and health services providers, to increase awareness about healthy aging, brain health, and the Precision Aging Network, a community-engaged brain aging research project from the Innovations in Healthy Aging strategic initiative. The network will help researchers discover how to reduce cognitive decline and age-related disease.
“September is Healthy Aging Month, and this event brings our researchers together with our community,” said Zhao Chen, PhD, MPH, professor and associate dean for research at the Zuckerman College of Public Health. “We are especially excited to have presented our program in both English and Spanish for the first time.”
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(Right) Anisha Venigalla talks with two attendees at the annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event. Venigalla volunteered with the Zuckerman College of Public Health’s Mobile Health Unit during the event.
Students from the Davis Bilingual Elementary Magnet School Las Agilitas mariachi band performed during the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
Daphne Parada, a research technician at the UArizona Cancer Center, tests the blood glucose levels of an attendee at the annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event. Parada volunteered with the Zuckerman College of Public Health’s Mobile Health Unit during the event.
Bianca Santamaria, health educator; Michelle Moore, program management assistant; Lidia Azurdia Sierra, graduate student; Gaby Sanchez, health educator; and Maria Losoya, health educator, all from the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health’s Center for Rural Health, were available to answer questions about their programs during the annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
David O. Garcia, PhD, FACSM, an associate professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, told attendees of the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event about the Nosotros Comprometidos a Su Salad (Committed to Your Health), a community outreach program to increase awareness and engagement in health disparities research and initiatives.
Members of the UArizona Filipino American Student Association demonstrate a traditional dance during the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
(From left) Arianna Martinez, a coordinator in the Global Health Institute, stands with members of the Zuckerman College of Public Health Environment, Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center: Royani Saha, a doctoral student in Environmental Health Sciences; Jonathan Sexton, PhD, research scientist; Lance Picton, MPH student; and Kelly Reynolds, PhD, MSPH, the center director and professor, at the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
Irving Velazquez, a community outreach professional with the Zuckerman College of Public Health Mobile Health Unit, collects information from an attendee at the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
Dancers from the Tucson Chinese Dance group performed traditional Chinese folk dances during the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event in the Health Sciences Innovation Building forum.
Over 500 people attended the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event, where there were 13 informational/educational presentations, 35 information tables and 11 performances during the event in late September.
Tasha Triplett, with the Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine gives an attendee at the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event a chair massage.
Kelly Reynolds, PhD, MSPH, professor and director of the Zuckerman College of Public Health Environment, Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center speaks to attendees of the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event about ESRAC.
Young dancers from the Tucson Chinese Dance group performed traditional Chinese folk dances during the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event in the Health Sciences Innovation Building forum.
Sasha Baker, with the Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine places an ear seed – used to apply gentle stimulation to acupuncture points in the ear to help with pain and other ailments – to the ear of an attendee at the Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event.
Volunteers with the Precision Aging Network welcome participants to the second annual Feast for Your Brain healthy aging community event in the Health Sciences Innovation Building forum during the event in late September.
Shannon Lindemer, senior psychometrist for the Zuckerman College of Public Health Nosotros Comprometidos a Su Salad (Committed to Your Health), hugs her son, Mateo Garcia, while volunteering at the Feast for Your Brain event along with Lindemer’s husband and Mateo’s father, David O. Garcia, PhD, FACSM, an associate professor in the college.