The 43rd annual Health Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 13 in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Alumni Hall. More than 65 vendors and 50 health organizations will be there to provide an interactive opportunity to discover health and wellness opportunities on IU’s campus, said Health Educator of the IU Health Center Shelby Dietz.
“We have 45-minute table massages and 10-minute chair massages,” Dietz said. “And there’s two categories. There’s relaxation and deep-tissue.”
Director of Health and Wellness Education Cathlene Hardy Hansen is most excited for the fair’s massages because the Health Center will be able to provide students in need of stress management a great massage without any cost to them.
“There’s nothing better than a massage for all-around, good health” Hansen said.
General Health Educator and Coordinator of the Health Fair Barbara Moss said a seafood chef from Maine will prepare 1,500 samples of little seafood sandwiches.
“We’re excited about giving people more information about ways to improve their health by eating perhaps less meat and more seafood in a delicious way,” Moss said.
Dietz agrees that this will be a great way for students to realize how important omega-3’s and realize how to increase them while eating restaurant-style healthy food.
The fair focuses on sexual health as well as physical and nutritional health, which will be observed by the passing out of free-condom necklaces, an item students have liked in the past, Moss and Hansen said.
Along with food, there will be a number of other free opportunities for participants, including aromatherapy, eye exams by the Atwater Eye Care Center and hearing tests by the Department of Speech and Hearing.
The career development center will also take part in the Health Fair for the first time this year.
“That’s such a wonderful resource that is completely underused on campus but can provide such an entry into finding a faster career,” Moss said.
Moss said that preparing for a steady career is also part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle during this particular time in a student’s life.
“Everything is so darn exciting at this health fair, you can’t even believe it,” Hansen said.
