Story written by Angela Cremer
Celebrate the 12th Annual Guts and Glory Digestive and Wellness Expo on Saturday, October 4, 2025 (rain date of Sunday Oct 5, 2025) from 11 AM until 3 PM at a new location – Jim Dietrich Park, 4899 Stoudt’s Ferry Bridge Road, Reading, PA 19605. The Expo was originally created in 2013 and hosted by local Reading, PA based nonprofit, My Gut Instinct, Inc., with title sponsor Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center.
Guts and Glory Digestive and Wellness Expo is a free community-wide celebration of health for all ages that showcases a farmers’ market, educational booths, fresh locally sourced food, fitness zones, yoga, massage, health screenings, wellness experts, live demonstrations and performances, community partners, kid activities, live DJ music, and delicious food trucks, to name a few features. Nearly 100 vendors in attendance span all dimensions of health and well-being to engage the attendees (Wellness Warriors) with interactive demonstrations. This year we are excited to have an inflatable colon exhibit, which provides visitors with an interactive, educational experience of stepping through a large-scale model of the human colon that highlights common disease conditions. We celebrate the spirit of health and wellness at our event and encourage our visitors to find inspiration at Guts and Glory to take an active role in their own well-being all year long. Event T-shirts will be for sale!
This family-friendly event is designed to educate the health curious, elevate the understanding of the health conscious, and raise community awareness of the importance of health and overall wellness through the exchange of information and resources. “We aim to provide people with health knowledge and empower them to take action to live healthier lives and become beautiful from the inside, out, because we believe beauty starts on the inside,” said founder Aparna Mele, M.D. “We also want to show the community that eating and living healthy is not only easy to do, but it can also be fun and delicious too!” Aparna Mele, M.D. is a board-certified gastroenterologist with U.S. Digestive Health. She came to the field of medicine with extensive experience in international relief work overseas and is actively involved in local philanthropic work directed towards patient education and promotion of societal health.
Guts and Glory Digestive and Wellness Expo is a far-reaching, educationally inspiring, community-giving, and feel-good event held annually to promote all aspects of health and fruitful living. The event has enjoyed extensive media coverage and public accolades for their health movement in the community, and we thank the numerous community sponsors and volunteers who make this event possible for its twelfth year.
The mission at My Gut Instinct, a nonprofit organization, is to collaboratively inspire and empower our community to embrace health and eat and live better for longevity. Our organization aims to increase awareness of preventable diseases that impact community health. We focus on preventing these avoidable diseases through motivating the community to make healthy choices, promoting cancer screenings, and raising awareness for various health concerns.
For more information about My Gut Instinct and the Guts and Glory event, please visit www.mygutinstinct.org. Stay up to date with volunteer, sponsor and vendor opportunities as well as enjoy healthy recipes and inspirational motivation on Facebook and Instagram @mygutinstinct and @gutsyandmini.
The post A Healthy Movement Celebrates its 12th Year This Weekend appeared first on BCTV.
Source: bctv