“You are what you eat.” The old adage is now truer than
ever. Good health is largely dependent on good nutrition, so much so that
doctors trace many physical and emotional ailments back to a diet deficient in
vitamins and minerals. Eating a well-balanced diet is a major part of
encouraging long life, lowering the incidence of disease, and helping sick
people recover. On the flip side, inadequate nutrition and poor quality foods
can generally cut life span and open us up to many illnesses and disease. In
effect, food is medicine per Webster's definition of medicine: "The
science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention,
alleviation, or cure of disease." Food acts as medicine - to maintain,
prevent, and treat disease.
With this month’s Alive in All Seasons focus on food, we’d
like to give you a prescription for a healthy diet: breakfast daily (do not
skip); meals x3 (at least) daily; foods from each of the food groups per meal daily.
The food pyramid defines the food groups as grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy
and proteins. The amounts vary according to age, sex, height, weight, and
physical activity level. Here’s a good guideline to start you on your way. Make
half your plate fruits and vegetables. Make half your grains whole grains. Move
to low-fat and fat-free dairy. Vary your protein routine and eat and drink the
right amount for you.
Join us as we continue our focus on healthy aging by
shedding light on our hydration program with healthy snacks and juices, and
demonstrate how food and nutrition help us to Live in Wellness from a
dietitian’s point of view.
Our fabulous June 2017 events in Cape Coral, FL at Juniper
Village at Cape Coral include our:
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Fourth Annual Edible Floral Arrangements as we
encourage everyone to come for a very fun, interactive event and learn to
create your very own floral masterpiece with fruit and cheese, and during this
exciting event, we will discuss the importance of the variety of fruits we eat
each day in keeping us healthy; each year we get better and better and are
almost masters at making our luscious fruit kabobs on June 8th at
2:30 pm. (RSVP by June 6th at 239-542-3121.)
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Educational Event Managing Emotions for a
special presentation and discussion, as we welcome our guest speakers from
Comfort Keepers and The Dubin’s Center for Alzheimer’s, because in follow up to
our dementia sensitivity class, many individuals asked for additional
information on how to manage emotions when dealing with the behavioral and
cognitive changes that comes with caring for individuals with dementia, and
this educational event will give you the tools you need as light refreshments
are served on June 14th from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
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Food Around the World as we welcome Community
Partners in Caring to our annual event as we share scrumptious samplings of
foods from around the globe during this great event for mingling and meeting
other colleagues with a focus on serving our seniors, so be sure to bring your
business cards to exchange on June 22nd from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
We look forward to sharing our June 2017 events in Cape
Coral, FL at Juniper Village at Cape Coral with you as you Live In Wellness.
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