Are you ready for the holidays? This month's newsletter provides some handy suggestions for exercise, relaxation, and eating right despite holiday stress and fattening temptations.

Other installments include an examination of obesity in persons with mental illness, and creative physical activity ideas for how to prevent the adolescent obesity epidemic in your own family. The FITT column focuses on physical activity during pregnancy, and our Community Voice piece provides experiences of motherhood by a new mom with Cerebral Palsy. We also suggest ways to become empowered in managing your health and health care as a way to prevent secondary conditions.

Enjoy your holidays!

Please send your questions and comments to Jennifer Gray-Stanley, NCHPAD News Editor, at jegray@uic.edu.