{"id":270462,"date":"2026-08-23T02:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:20:25","slug":"wellness-day-in-pittsburgh-encourages-men-to-take-better-care-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270462\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness day in Pittsburgh encourages men to take better care of themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 An event Saturday in Pittsburgh encouraged men to take better care of themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Black Men\u2019s Wellness Day was held at Westinghouse Park in Homewood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Men participated in free health screenings, a 5K run\/walk, fitness activities and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Now in its third year, the event seeks to bring doctors and care workers into the community. They meet with people who may not have the motivation to head to the doctor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cMen, period, we tend to not want to get screened and not want to go to the doctor\u2019s,\u201d walk coordinator Terence Starr said. \u201cSo we kind of get rid of those barriers that they deal with going to the doctor\u2019s. So what better way to do it than to bring it straight to the community?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 An event Saturday in Pittsburgh encouraged men to take better care of themselves. Black Men\u2019s Wellness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26504,114024,4925,11466,1057,2163,14500,114022,73,75,74,114025,19747,114023],"class_list":["post-270462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-black-men","tag-black-mens-wellness-day","tag-doctor","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-homewood","tag-men","tag-mens-wellness-day","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-screening","tag-wellness","tag-wellness-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}