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Eat Right | Winter 2022

Tips to Help Keep Your Family’s Heart BEATING STRONG

While we focus on heart health during February, keeping your heart healthy is really an everyday job. You are never too old or too young to begin taking care of your heart. It all begins with a healthy lifestyle and that includes a well-balanced diet and plenty of physical activity.....

Eat Right | Summer 2021

HEALTHY EATING TIPS

“If people start reading nutrition labels and taking control of what they’re cooking and how they’re preparing it, they can definitely limit their overall fat, sugar and salt and be heart healthier for it,”....

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Simple Ways to Build Your Cancer-Prevention Diet

What you eat – and don’t eat – can make a big difference in your health, including your risk for cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. A good place to start, they advise, is to take a....

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Kids in the Kitchen

Make cooking a family affair by having your children help prepare healthy meals or snacks....

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Comfort in a Bowl

With fall comes that transition from the patio grill and corn-on-the-cob to the kitchen stovetop and a simmering pot of stew or a warm comfort food. Fall also provides those last opportunities to visit a local farmers...

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SAVOR THE FLAVOR WITH THESE HEART-HEALTHY SWEET TREATS

Sweets and treats aren’t off-limits if you’re on a heart-healthy diet. You just have to plan ahead,...

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START HEALTHY EATING HABITS EARLY

“What we learn as children affects our choices as adults,” said Karen Mohn, RD, LDN, Community Wellness Coordinator/Dietitian at CalvertHealth Medical Center. “Habits learned at a young age are hard to break, so parents should start modeling healthy eating when children are very young.”...

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KNOW YOUR NUMBERS

You’ve checked into your doctor’s office and are called back to a treatment room. A nurse takes four major vital signs: pulse, respiratory rate, body temperature and blood pressure—these will give your doctor a general idea of how your body is doing...