Come to Live Well Lakewood's first event of 2011 and prepare to change your eating habits and your life! Sign up for one of the special demos from professional chefs. In addition, from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, you can browse displays, get a free gluscose screening and pick up tips on nutrition.

Maintaining your health all alone is a challenge. We know that. That’s why we’re getting together so we can help one another eat healthy, get fit, and live better.

Requires a pool pass of $20/month, discounted $5 for participants of the Swim Challenge

Live Well Lakewood and Lakewood Recreation Department are partnering to improve your health. Live Well Lakewood's popular Wellness Challenge this year gives you the option of pulling on your bathing suit before lacing up your walking shoes as the Swim Challenge and the Walking Challenge will run consecutively. So you have the choice of doing one or the other, or hopefully both! Complete the Swim Challenge and you'll earn a t-shirt along with boosting your fitness. 

Registration: 7:30 AM
1.5 Mile Walk: 8:30 AM
5K Race & Walk (D-Tag Timed): 9:00 AM
LWL Children's Chase: 10:00 AM

Saturday, June 25, 2011
10:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Begins at Discount Drug Mart West, 15412 Detroit Avenue

Detroit Avenue will be closed for an ”active” living program on the street followed by an evening Lakewood Summer Meltdown 5K race. The fun begins and ends in historic Downtown Lakewood. Post race live music and festivities open to the general public.

Presented by Jordan’s Family Foundation.  The event turns Lakewood Park into a large playground and features dozens of energizing activities for kids and families to have fun and play while also learning a bit about healthy living.  Visit LWL at the tennis courts for fun games for kids and adults!

This event is sold out.

Click here to see a map of parking locations for this event.

Live Well Lakewood is delighted to present Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, nationally known for his alternative medicine practice.  Dr. Esselstyn spent many years of his career performing heart surgeries before turning to plant-based diet as a method for preventing and reversing heart disease.  Dr. Esselstyn currently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.

Dr. Esselstyn’s philosophies are portrayed in the recent movie “Forks Over Knives.”

Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet for more than 26 years. 

February is the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women heart health awareness month. As part of that, Lakewood’s Open Your Heart Committee is sponsoring it’s 5^th annual “Dress Up Your Heart” fundraiser with the mission of raising local awareness of heart disease, the number one killer of women in the U.S. This year’s event will include a Red Dress Fashion Show followed with a silent auction of the featured dresses. The dresses presented are designs by Susan Dauber, a Lakewood High School graduate who earned a Bachelors Degree in Fashion and Apparel Design from Cornell University and is currently working in the fashion design industry in New York City.