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All Ages and Leashed Pets are Needed to Step Up and Walk and Help Raise Awareness of Childhood Growth Disorders on April 21st

Human Growth Foundation is calling on all ages and leashed pets to Step Up and Walk on Sunday, April 21, 2013 from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm at Flushing Meadows Park (Fountain of the Planets) in Corona, NY. The event will feature entertainment for all ages, community vendors, giveaways, and awards to Top Fundraising Walkers and Top Fundraising Teams. Participants can register at http://www.stepupandwalkforhgf.org.

Human Growth Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help children and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone. “We are building awareness of growth hormone deficiency and the funds to continue critical research, education, support and advocacy. It is estimated that 10,000 to 15,000 children in the United States have growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency,” says Human Growth Foundation President Dr. Pisit “Duke” Pitukcheewanont.

Registrants will receive an Event Tee-Shirt, Continental breakfast, snacks and beverages:

        $10 for Youth under 16
        $25 for Adults

Event sponsors include EMD Serono (presenting sponsor), Novo Dordisk, Dexa Percy, OceanBreeze Healthcare, Queens Community Bank, Uniqueness Counts, Queens Ledger, Sandoz, Costco, Eddie's Pizza Truck and Hula Frog.

Human Growth Foundation is dedicated to helping medical science to better understand the process of growth. It is composed of concerned parents and friends of children, and adults, with growth problems; physicians; and, other interested health professionals. The Foundation focuses on intrauterine growth retardation, Russell-Silver syndrome, Turner's syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Noonan's syndrome, chondroplasias, and more. For more information about Human Growth Foundation, visit http://www.hgfound.org.

Meet Our Sponsors for Step Up and Walk

...to our generous and amazing SPONSORS for making this event possible. 

Please click on each logo to learn more about each sponsor.
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If you OR your company would like to Sponsor Step Up and Walk, contact:

daphne@hgfound.org

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http://www.emdserono.com

 http://www.novonordisk.com/

http://www.mynycb.com

http://www.dexapercy.com/



http://www.oceanbreezehealthcare.com

http://www.queensledger.com/

http://www.us.sandoz.com

http://www.costco.com

http://www.usballoon.com/

http://www.eatenlightened.com/

UNIQUENESS COUNTS

http://www.uniqueness-counts.com

http://rockvillcentre.hulafrog.com

Our Treat!

The first TWO people who register to Step Up and Walk today (3/11), 

will receive a $10 gift certificate to redeem at 

Eddie’s Pizza Truck (NY). 

Now that’s a goooooood incentive. 

Register online at 

www.StepUpAndWalkForHGF.org. 

Help Us Spread the Word!

Supporters...

Please help us spread the word about our 1st Annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk community event.

Double click the image below, download and share with friends, family, colleagues, strangers, on y our blog, on your Facebook page.


TOGETHER we can make a difference. 
Thank you!

Get Enlightened! For FREE at Step Up and Walk

ENLIGHTENED Ice Cream will give all Step Up and Walk for Growth Hormone Deficiency registrants FREE delicious ice cream at the April 21st event! 

Mmmmm...so good! 

REGISTER TODAY - www.StepUpAndWalkForHGF.org

Show the Love, Step Up and Walk!

Register to Step Up and Walk with your honey,

and we'll waive their fee from
 

Feb 14 - 21st!

 

Register for two - only pay for one.

 

Why?

 

 Because we LOVE you and your support of children with growth disorders.

 

So, show us the love - register today!

 

www.StepUpAndWalkForHGF.org

 

 

 

Do You Remember Your First Step?

Remember your first step? What a fuss everyone made! And then you continued to walk right on through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood, but somewhere along the way, like most adults, you probably stopped walking so much. In fact, the percentage of adults who spent most of their day sitting increased from 36.8% in 2000 to 39.9% in 2005! 

Part of the reason may be your hectic, stressful life, with not a moment to spare for recreation or formal exercise. The environment plays a part too; inactivity has been engineered into our lives, from escalators to remote controls to riding lawn mowers to robotic vacuum cleaners to electric toothbrushes to the disappearance of sidewalks and safe places to walk. But research shows that all this automation is bad for our health. 

Besides the main reason to Step Up and Walk on April 21st ...let's look at a few other top reasons to walk...

1. Walking prevents type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program showed that walking 150 minutes per week and losing just 7% of your body weight (12-15 pounds) can reduce your risk of diabetes by 58%.
2. Walking strengthens your heart if you're male. In one study, mortality rates among retired menwho walked less than one mile per day were nearly twice that among those who walked more than two miles per day.
3. Walking strengthens your heart if you're female. Women in the Nurse's Health Study (72,488 female nurses) who walked three hours or more per week reduced their risk of a heart attack or other coronary event by 35% compared with women who did not walk.
4. Walking is good for your brain. In a study on walking and cognitive function, researchers found that women who walked the equivalent of an easy pace at least 1.5 hours per week had significantly better cognitive function and less cognitive decline than women who walked less than 40 minutes per week. Think about that!
5. Walking is good for your bones. Research shows that postmenopausal women who walk approximately one mile each day have higher whole-body bone density than women who walk shorter distances, and walking is also effective in slowing the rate of bone loss from the legs.
6. Walking helps alleviate symptoms of depression. Walking for 30 minutes, three to five times per week for 12 weeks reduced symptoms of depression as measured with a standard depression questionnaire by 47%.
7. Walking reduces the risk of breast and colon cancer. Women who performed the equivalent of one hour and 15 minutes to two and a half hours per week of brisk walking had an 18% decreased risk of breast cancer compared with inactive women. Many studies have shown that exercise can prevent colon cancer, and even if an individual person develops colon cancer, the benefits of exercise appear to continue both by increasing quality of life and reducing mortality.
8. Walking improves fitness. Walking just three times a week for 30 minutes can significantly increase cardiorespiratory fitness.
9. Walking in short bouts improves fitness, too! A study of sedentary women showed that short bouts of brisk walking (three 10-minute walks per day) resulted in similar improvements in fitness and were at least as effective in decreasing body fatness as long bouts (one 30-minute walk per day).
10. Walking improves physical function. Research shows that walking improves fitness and physical function and prevents physical disability in older persons.

The list goes on, but if I continued, there'd be no time for you to start walking! Suffice to say that walking is certainly good for you!

A Note from a Belieber with Turners Syndrome

A Twitter follower sent us this letter to share on our blog.  Please read it and understand why it's important to Step Up and Walk with us on April 21st. Walk as an individual or with a team. Together we can make a difference in the lives of children with growth hormone deficiency. 

Build a Team!

Build a team and walk to help raise awareness of growth hormone deficiency and funds for research, education, support and advocacy!

With your leadership and the help of your team, Human Growth Foundation’s 1st Annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk fundraiser will be a huge success. Our goal is to raise $48,000, to help provide support for children with various growth disorders and adults with growth hormone deficiency.

Your contribution and dedication to Step Up and Walk as a Team Captain is greatly appreciated. 

Your Efforts Will Be Rewarded!

$100 = $25 Visa Gift Card

$200 = $35 Visa Gift Card

$250 = $50 Visa Gift Card

These incentives will be awarded individually to each person who raises the qualifying amount of funds, whether they are on a team or not, and distributed at the Walk during Registration/Check-in.

In addition, prizes will be awarded to the top fundraisers of the following categories:

Top Two Individuals

Top Two Individual Kids (16 and under)

Top Two Teams

Top Team Kids (16 and under)

CLICK HERE AND DOWNLOAD 
YOUR TEAM CAPTAIN PACKET NOW! 

AND LET'S WALK APRIL 21st!

CLICK HERE AND REGISTER YOURSELF 

AND YOUR TEAM!

A TALL ORDER: FOR SOME SHORT STATURE CHILDREN, GROWTH HORMONES ARE THE ANSWER

“People called me ‘Shorty.’  I wasn’t too happy about that,” said Lauren Pozmanter.  But that was two years ago, when at age 12 she “stood out like a sore thumb,” she said.”  Just 4-foot-5, she was one of the shortest kids in her class. 

Today, Pozmanter is a hair’s breadth under 5 feet tall.  In jeans, T-short and high wedge heels, she blends in perfectly with the 14-year-old crowd. The East Setauket teenager’s phenomenal growth spurt of almost 7 inches in the past two years is directly attributable to the daily injections of synthetic growth hormone she took from age 12 until her bones fused recently in puberty.

Medical tests done when she was 12 revealed that Pozmanter has a condition known as growth hormone deficiency.  Her body does not produce enough growth hormone to stimulate normal growth.  Tests done at that time by a pediatric endocrinologist further determined she was not about to grow much taller without medical intervention. Pozmanter’s younger sister and brother, Kristen and Matthew, 9-year-old twins, have been similarly diagnosed.  Both have begun to catch up to their peers in height.

“We knew nothing about this condition at all,” said the children’s mother, Lynn, who, like her husband, Murray, is of average height.   “Lauren always asked us why she was so short and we would say, “You’ll grow, you’ll grow,’ not knowing she wasn’t going to.  This was all news to us.  When the pediatrician said, “Go see an endocrinologist, “Lauren had fallen off the growth chart. 

Medical science has made it possible for extremely short, pre-pubescent children who meet certain criteria to have grotwh hormone to grow and develop.

Human Growth Foundation, a national, non-profit organization whose mission is to help children and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone will host its first annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk on Sunday, April 21, 2013 from 7:00 am to 12:00 pm at Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in Queens, New York. 

The event will feature dignitaries, celebrities, entertainment for all ages, community vendors, giveaways, and awards to Top Fundraising Walkers and Top Fundraising Teams. 

Register today

http://stepupandwalkforhgf.org/

Step Up and Walk will allow Human Growth Foundation to:

• provide "starter grants" to encourage research in both physical and psychosocial areas of growth disorders and chondroplasias
• host Discussion Forums for parents of children, and adults, with growth disorders
• conduct awareness/outreach programs to identify and encourage persons with growth disorders to seek appropriate diagnosis and treatment

Join Our Community!

Happy New Year Friends!

We are thrilled that you landed here on our all new blog! Exciting things are underway at the Human Growth Foundation starting with our all new event - Step Up and Walk. 

It's the first year for the event, and we really need your support. 

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