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We're Bringin HealthyBack!

Our Mission:

The Youth Health Alliance is dedicated to promoting health awareness to the youth of our community by means of providing information concerning health related issues. We achieve this goal by showcasing informational material in the form of brochures, presentations, e-mail, and videos. These prompts will be presented, as well as distributed to the community, including, schools, hospitals, and public facilities. We support and encourage advocacy, research in illnesses/diseases affecting youths both directly and indirectly, education of health awareness, and participation in fulfilling our mission. This mission is subject to changes as our organization becomes larger and changes will be verified and voted by the board of directors.

Visit us at: www.yhalive.org

Subscribe to our Youtube account! :)

www.youtube.com/youthhealth

Minh Nguyen and I, Paul Tran have started a non-profit organization called the Youth Health Alliance . We are not in any case health care professionals, however, we are currently working on our undergraduate coursework at the University of Washington and Washington State University. We both want to help people within our community and globally, this will not only help us learn more about taking care of ourselves but additionally prepare us for a future occupation in the health care field.

You may want to know what the "Youth Health Alliance" does? Well we promote health awareness and cover pretty much every aspect we can. We decided the best way to disseminate information was to broadcast educational videos through YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, and other social networking sites. These communication mediums are the most widely used for the targeted demographic we are trying to reach.

Our goal is to help the youth today build a foundation, so that they can construct a healthy lifestyle early on during adolescence. It is very difficult to break old habits later in life, this is why we stress the importance of eating healthy and exercising regularly at an early age. Thus, we hope to engage the youth by taking a different approach with social marketing.

""""We're Bringin' HealthyBack"""" "Introducing Ourselves Part II"

"""Healthy Snack Ep 5 - Smoothie""" "Nutrition Fact Labels - YHA"

""What is that Disease? HIV/AIDS"" ""Tobacco Effects""

""""""""The Hot Date"""""""" ""Soulja Boy Winter Dance""

Hyperlinks to our other videos:

1. Tea Part II - YHA Q and A

2. Yogurt Parfait - Healthy Snack Ep7

3. Introduction to the Youth Health Alliance, the Co-Founders

4. Healthysnack Ep 3 - Frozen Snacks YHA

5. Nutrition Facts Label Pt II - Serving Size

6. Nutrition Facts Label Pt III - Intro to Sugars & Sweeteners

7. Grapes - YHA Fruitiness Ep 1

8. Autism Awareness - YHA

9. Fun Activities - Demonstration

10. Breakfast - Milk - Cereal

11. March of Dimes - WalkAmerica 2007

12. Acne - Pimples

13. Carrots - Veggies Healthysnack Ep 4

14. Do you drink enough Water? Lil Chang Wang

15. Smoothie - Healthysnack Ep5

16. Playing in the Sun and having some Fun!

17. Vegemite - Healthy Snack Ep #6

18. Michael Moore - Sicko - What is your opinion?

19. Got Allergies??

20. YHA Food Myths: Chocolate Healthy?

21. Green Tea / Black Tea / Pepsi - YHA

22. YHA Sandwich - Healthy Snack Ep2

23. Girl dies from Sports Cream - YHA News #1

24. Unhealthy Confessions (Habits)!

25. Stressed Out?!

26. Sun Exposure...Good or Bad?

27. Do you need to be good to play sports?

28. 5 ways to Fight the Summer Heat!

29. Introducing YHA Part 3- Behind the Scenes!

30. Cough Medicine or Honey?


Artwork by our members/friends!

As you can see we have a growing gallery of artwork done by our members. We would love to see more, just e-mail them [email protected] and we will feature it in this slideshow!

Recent News

We are also on Facebook! Check our group out!

We are now officially the Youth Health Alliance!

We signed up for blogspot here is the link: http://youthhealthyha.blogspot.com/

Our group has decided to try "YOUTUBE" as one of our ways to communicate to the youth. We will try to make videos discussing various health topics. We ask members/friends to share any ideas they want to see in these youtube videos. In fact, we ENCOURAGE everyone to make their own video discussing a health topic they are interested in. We don't mind how you articulate your topic, be creative, just keep it clean! Just send your videos to us and we will post them on our page. In the next few weeks we will be posting our own videos, and start skits, dicussions, music videos, ect... whatever we come up with! Thank you!

-Please post any comments or ideas you have!

Our E-MAIL is: [email protected]

Fact/Tip of the Month
On average, it takes a person 2 hours of non stop walking (80 calories/hour at 3mph) to burn off the calories and sugar from a 12 oz. can of Coke (160 calories).
http://www.factme.com/category18.html


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Everyone who is interested in health related issues.

My Blog

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