Healthy habits add up to healthy people, happier families and more livable communities. At Live Well West Virginia, we hope to inform, inspire, connect and encourage all West Virginians, wherever they are, on their journey toward ever more healthful days.

This site grew out of a special project of The Charleston Gazette and the longstanding efforts of the West Virginia University Extension Service. In 2011, Gazette staffer Kate Long received a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. Her project “The Shape We’re In” examines obesity and chronic disease in West Virginia. At the same time, WVU Extension was in the process of overhauling its existing site offering weekly fitness and nutrition challenges and sound information and encouragement to anyone interested in healthy habits. In the course of this work, a collaboration was sparked. The result is Live Well West Virginia.

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