Heart Health Promotion
Channel: Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program
Date: 26/02/2021

In honor of Heart Health Month, HeLP offers a webinar on making it easier to make heart-healthy food choices with grocery shopping tips and recipes, and ideas on preventing and/or managing heart disease and high blood pressure. Check it out!

00:15 — HeLP overview
00:56 — Learning objectives
1:37 — Introduction: What to know to get ahead of heart disease!
1:54 — What is heart disease?
2:31 — Uncontrollable risk factors
3:34 — Controllable risk factors
4:27 — Conditions that contribute to heart disease
5:32 — Cholesterol: An overview
7:04 — Conditions that contribute to heart disease
8:11 — Activity: Your healthy body check-in
9:44 — Putting heart-healthy eating into practice!
10:25 — Nutrition facts: Food labels
14:01 — What foods have saturated fats or trans fats?
15:16 — Current guidelines for heart-healthy eating
16:49 — Heart-healthy eating: The DASH diet
17:45 — Sample menu: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
20:06 — What are heart-healthy activities?
21:15 — Sample exercise plans
22:30 — Resources for exercise and stress reduction
23:35 — Main takeaways
24:40 — Poll questions review
26:09 — Questions and answers

Click here to view the PowerPoint slides:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoqmWF31c9YfoTWeQaHKZvb3YwjJ3mZQ/view?usp=sharing

Questions? Feel free to reach out to us!
Email: Healthy_libraries_program@stonybrookmedicine.edu 
Phone: 631-216-8220

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The Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (SBMHeLP) is a partnership between the Public Libraries of Suffolk County and a unique group of healthcare professionals and graduate student interns from the fields of social work, public health, nursing, nutrition, and library science, working together to provide access to in-person and virtual healthcare-related resources for public library patrons throughout Suffolk County. This partnership looks to enhance the health and well-being of Suffolk County residents through library programming, collection development and dissemination of information on current health topics impacting our communities.