The Health Fair is Back

The Of­fice of Health and Well­ness and He­roes are at it again! The Maryville Uni­ver­sity Health Fair is one of the biggest events on cam­pus for stu­dents and fac­ulty and staff to at­tend. 

This year, the event will take place April 25, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, on the Com­mence­ment Lawn. There will be around 40 ven­dors, ac­tiv­i­ties and even a farmer’s mar­ket.

In these ac­tiv­i­ties, there will be a rock climb­ing wall, an in­flat­able ob­sta­cle course and a farmer’s mar­ket­ing with fresh pro­duce for stu­dents, fac­ulty and staff to en­joy. 

Maryville has a va­ri­ety of dif­fer­ent fit­ness classes in the evening time such as Zumba or Pound, and some of these classes are go­ing to be giv­ing a teaser at the health fair, so you can learn how the classes will work.

When stu­dents, fac­ulty or staff par­tic­i­pate in the 20-minute-long teaser class, you will be en­tered to win in a gift card raf­fle for $50. 

The classes that are go­ing to be pro­vided are go­ing to be on the DUC pa­tio. These in­clude:

· 10:30- Fu­sion Strength

· 11:15- Bal­ance Train­ing

· 12:00- Zumba

· 12:45- Zumba

· 1:30- Pound

Along with these fit­ness classes, free mas­sages will be given out and will last around 10 min­utes. There will also be free STD check­ups for any­one that goes to the fair as well.

“Af­ter you visit 5 ven­dors, you will be able to get free frozen yo­gurt. There will also be in­for­ma­tion on men­tal health and eat­ing dis­or­ders, and St. Louis Sleep Med­i­cine will be there to talk to stu­dents about sleep­ing, al­co­hol and drug use. Also there will be blood pres­sure screen­ings and CPR train­ings for par­tic­i­pants as well,” said Lisa Munch, the Di­rec­tor of Health and Well­ness.

Munch be­lieves that at­tend­ing the fair al­lows peo­ple to walk out with valu­able in­for­ma­tion that they would­n’t have known be­fore.

“Make sure you try and come for at least 20 min­utes of the fair; there is some­thing for every­one and it’s go­ing to ben­e­fit you in some way,” said Munch, “There will be a lot of peo­ple from the In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute for stu­dents that have trou­ble with in­sur­ance, so they help a lot of peo­ple nav­i­gate what the best plan is for them. There’s go­ing to be a lot of great pro­grams for stu­dents to get more in­for­ma­tion on any­thing health-wise. It’s go­ing to be re­ally fun!”