The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), with the support of Resolve to Save Lives and partners , is pleased to launch the campaign titled “Let’s Talk About Trans Fats! And Why They Need to Go!” on September 30th, 2024. The campaign is part of a larger regional movement to ban industrially-produced trans fats from the food supply,

Signed, sealed, delivered and it’s a wrap! On Tuesday 26^th November 2019, we completed the final session of our six-week chronic disease self-management course. This was our third and final workshop of the year. In April 2019, we held our first 6-week course, and this was followed by our second one in August 2019.

This final set of workshops began on 22^nd October with a class of 13, all-female and whose ages ranged from 25 to 60.

We had a dynamic group of ladies who were keen to learn, very willing to participate and share their health stories and experiences and support each other; this created a great atmosphere for learning and built a strong sense of camaraderie.

Over the six weeks, we covered a number of self-management techniques such as action-planning, physical activity, problem-solving, decision making, healthy eating, medication management, communication skills and more.

Through group work, brainstorming sessions and homework, the course material came to life for participants and they were able to apply what was learnt each week to their own personal situation.

During our weekly feedback sessions, it was very rewarding to hear the impact the self-management techniques had made in just a short space of time and to hear of how each topic caused participants to reflect on their lifestyle and make a commitment to make healthier choices.

As usual, the section on food labels caused quite a stir when participants realized the quantities of sugar, salt and fat in many of the items they consume and this was a bit of a wake-up call with participants making small changes like switching to skimmed milk and reducing their portion sizes.

Once again, we found facilitating this course to have been a very rewarding experience and look forward to hosting more of these courses next year.

We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the course. We know it was a significant time commitment and we appreciate your dedication, time and your willingness to get involved.

Wednesday 8th July, 2018

Today’s episode is an update on our episode 8 where we discussed the launch of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition’s childhood obesity prevention campaign. In this short episode we touch on the HCC’s success at the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting and give up an update on the HCC’s childhood obesity petition.

Wednesday 25th July, 2018

Today we discuss a recent conference that we attended, the 63rd annual CARPHA Health Research Conference which was held right here is S Kitts.

Wednesday 11th July, 2018

Today we provide an update on two upcoming events – our Chronic Disease Self-Management Course and our Fibroids Self-Care Webinar Series. We also talk briefly about changes to our podcast schedule.

Wednesday 4th July 2018

Today’s episode is the final episode in our childhood obesity series and our volunteers Vikell and Marecia discuss the solutions to childhood obesity.

Wednesday 27th June, 2018

Our volunteers are back with another episode in their childhood obesity series. Today, is a quick podcast with Marecia, Eurecia, Jorecia, Chris and Vikell sharing how they stay healthy. In this episode they provide some great insight on easy ways to adopt a healthy lifestyle. They’re on a mission to make the Caribbean a healthy place.