CLEAR LAKE, IA-Folks are joining gyms and starting those new diets, but you can also make sure you are informed about how to lead a healthy life.A Health and Wellness Expo in Clear Lake showed folks the different ways they can take care of themselves.
There are almost 30 vendors informing visitors about everything from financial wellness, to diet and exercise, even beauty tips.
Organizers say this is something everyone is the community can benefit from.
The obesity rate of adults over twenty in the united states is 34 percent.
Event Organizer Dalena Barz says that's something this event is aiming to help.
Barz says, "we hear a lot about how the health and wellness of the country is not that good. So we are just trying to facilitate a way for people to come in and find out some ways they can improve their health and wellness."
Barz says they wanted to do it around this time so they could help people keep those New Year's resolutions.
As many as forty five percent of Americans make resolutions and many of those are to lose weight or exercise.
