Hispanic Latino Minority Health Coalition Director Takes Lead in Obesity Prevention - Indianapolis

The Hispanic Latino Minority Health Coalition’s executive director, Cecilia Acosta, was recently featured in Indianapolis Woman for her move to help start an obesity prevention program in her coalition, and has also made a change in her own life and diet because of the program she implemented.

The Coalition, which works to assess, design, develop, implement and evaluate programs that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for each minority group represented, asked Acosta to come up with the obesity prevention program, and in doing so, she lost 30 pounds because she learned how to change her diet and was able to implement exercise to her daily routine.

“We have to be the examples,” said Acosta. “I decided to start with my self. I was able to organize myself, and that helped me to improve other areas in my life.”

For more information about the Hispanic Latino Minority Health Coalition of Greater Indianapolis, go to www.hlmhc.org.

About the Hispanic Latino Minority Health Coalition of Greater Indianapolis:
The HLMHC of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. is an institution created to diminish health-disparities faced by the Hispanic/Latino and Black community, through education, advocacy and leadership. The way that this program is designed will allow the coalition focus all it efforts to prevent diseases such as heart diseases, stroke, cancer (breast and prostate) and diabetes. The ultimate goal of the programs provided is to reduce health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities by increasing access to needed healthcare and improving health literacy.”*

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