Health is more than diet and exercise, and Activate Allen County is working to make sure other avenues of good health are being met. The group is accepting applications for its annual Faith Community Challenge. It is to encourage area churches and faith-based organizations to increase their support of the health and well-being of their parishioners. The challenge provides financial assistance and technical support for those efforts.

Patients in a hospital will all have different needs, depending on what they are experiencing, and one department in a hospital like Mercy Health St. Rita's that helps with patient needs across the board is dietetics. Dieticians at St. Rita's help patients in outpatient areas like bariatric weight loss, the cancer center, and dialysis to name a few. There are also clinical dieticians that help to make sure that hospitalized patients have their nutritional needs met.

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