Protect your body, protect your temple : a toolkit for building healthier places of worship

Abstract

This toolkit is designed to provide faith-based organizations with ideas and resources to help them plan, develop, and implement health related programs and activities. The activities and programs contained within the toolkit are easy to use and implement. This toolkit is divided into four sections. The first section describes how to create a strong health committee in your place of worship. The remaining sections focus on three risk factors that have the largest contribution to chronic diseases and mortality: physical activity, nutrition, tobacco.