Health Focus

Recordings of each weekly Health Focus Teleclass

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Big Lessons for Little Mouths... A Guide to Healthy Eating for Toddlers

Listen to a great talk from Erin DaRosa, RD, from Momentum Health Nutrition Services. For anyone who wishes to contact her for more information, her email address is; momentumhealth@comcast.com. Be sure to listen to the class for an offer Erin makes to listeners!

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Confused about Fats? Not all are equal.

Have you wondered about all the mixed messages you hear about fats? Do you get confused when you hear about Omega-3 fats, saturated fats, 'healthy' fats, 'unhealthy' fats. Listen in, as Margie makes it clear for you.

For those interested in a good handout on the benefits of omega-3 fats and how to add them to your diet, here is the link; http://www.streamload.com/megfit/Omega3_handout.pdf

Sunday, June 12, 2005

DASH and High Blood Pressure

Have you ever heard of the DASH Diet??
This has been around a long, long time and has been repeatedly shown to
lower blood pressure! Although this class was not live, I hope you find the information informative and helpful. Please feel free to share with anyone you know who has high blood pressure. In the class, I mentioned several websites and here they are:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/index.html
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr97/Dash.htm
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/dash2.htm

Thursday, June 02, 2005

What is a Portfolio Diet?

Have you heard of this diet that will lower your blood cholesterol without drugs? Although the media has not created a big hype about it, and the researchers have not yet written a book, there are good studies to support such a claim. Learn what it is and how to include the recommendations in your current diet.