Health Focus

Recordings of each weekly Health Focus Teleclass

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Healthy Lunch Ideas For You and Your Family

With school soon starting back up, you may be wondering what types of choices to feed your family, as well as what will you eat when the kids are all gone and you're home alone. Or, perhaps you're ready for some new choices for your workday, too! Listen to Margie discuss her favorite lunch ideas.
For more tips on ideas for healthy lunches, here are some good websites:

www.dole5aday.com
http://www.parents.com/articles/food_fun/5765.jsp

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Disordered Eating

Katie Ellingson provided information on disordered eating, including the warning signs, symptoms, psychological and physical characteristics for all types of eating disorders. She also included how to approach someone with an eating disorder and where to get help for friends and loved ones. Katie Ellingson is a Registered Dietitian and a Health Fitness Instructor (HFI). She is currently in private practice in California, where she specializes in the nutritional treatment of eating disorders. With the combination of nutrition and fitness training, she helps clients achieve a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

For listeners who would like to contact guest speaker Katie Ellingson, her email address is kellingson_rd@yahoo.com and her phone number is 619-822-8882.
In the class, Katie provided listeners with several websites to look into for referrals and more information. Here are the websites:
http://www.edreferral.com/
http://www.something-fishy.org/
http://www.gurze.com/

Friday, August 12, 2005

Supplements for Menopause

Margie discusses the three top supplements that are popular for relieving menopausal symptoms.

Healthy Kitchen Cleanup

Reyna Franco took us on an interactive tour of our kitchen cupboards, refrigerator and freezer. We took a look at the foods stored in our kitchen and discuss the various products to determine how they fit (or don't fit) into your healthy eating goals. Reyna Franco is a registered dietitian with a masters of science in nutrition and exercise physiology. She provides nutrition and exercise assessment and counseling for sports nutrition, weight loss and management, children, adolescents and families, pre- and post-natal nutrition, and various medical conditions. To go along with the class, for those listening to the audio recording, Reyna wanted to
include this link of the class outline, http://www.streamload.com/megfit/Healthy_Kitchen_Cleanup_handout.pdf.
For anyone would like to contact Reyna for more information or about her services,
you can go to http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?GJlZeqE5hiJ2etrYawux9A.