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The Louisiana Board of Regents provided the original funds to launch our Geaux Goods food pantry. In continued support they awarded another $4,000 in recognition of our efforts to decrease food insecurity on the LSUHS campus.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education have announced that more than 50 of the nation's top medical schools across 31 states, including the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine, have committed to strengthening nutrition education for future physicians.
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KSLA - Dr. Marie Vazquez Morgan with LSUHS Institutional Wellness shares how to keep New Year's resolutions the S.M.A.R.T. way
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KTBS - Marie Vazquez, Director of Institutional Wellness at LSU Health Shreveport University, shared with KTBS on Wednesday why people don’t stick with their new year’s resolutions and how to stay committed to your goals, especially ones that are related to your health.
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LA Radio Network: If the New Year resolved to lead a healthier lifestyle, LSU Health Shreveport Director of Institutional Wellness Dr. Marie Vasquez Morgan has some advice. She says maintaining any resolution starts with setting S.M.A.R.T. goals.
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The beginning of a new year carries a quiet sense of possibility. It invites reflection on where we have been, what has shaped us, and how we want to feel moving forward. While resolutions often focus on external achievements, the new year is also an ideal moment to reconnect with something more foundational: Your wellbeing.
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August is National Wellness Month, and we were thrilled to offer our fifth annual Wellness Week here on campus, where we had a variety of workshops and classes featuring all the different dimensions of wellness.
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KTBS3 - Wellness is multi-dimensional. In fact, there are eight dimensions of wellness. Physical, mental, social, workplace, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and financial. "A lot of people correlate wellness with just physical health, and physical health is a huge component of wellness, but it's not the only one," shared Dr. Marie Vazquez-Morgan, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Institutional Wellness at LSUHS.
The Office for Institutional Wellness at LSU Health Shreveport will be hosting Wellness Week August 12-16, a week-long series of events dedicated to promoting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
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KTBS3 - Dr. Marie Vazquez Morgan, LSUHS Assistant Vice Chancellor for Institutional Wellness, says, "once you look at all eight dimensions of wellness, then you have to address what you're really not doing so well, and what we need to kind of tweak and what we may be doing well and to move that forward."
