Live Well Natomas
February 2, 2012 by Bill Scharffenberg
Crossroads Church is leading the Live Well Natomas 90-day challenge for everyone in our community to get moving, make healthier choices, and motivate others! Beginning the week of January 8, individuals, businesses, churches, schools and civic leaders will join with Crossroads to LIVE WELL.
Learn more about the events, links, and bite-size, digestible pieces of high quality health education by visiting www.LiveWellNatomas.org. The Web site calendar has LIVE WELL Natomas events like “Loop the Lake” on Saturdays.
Crossroads Church will host “Can’t Weight Till Wednesday” every–you guessed it–Wednesday. Doors will open at 6:00 for food samples and optional weigh-in. Presentations by health professionals and people who have succesfully changed their life styles towards better health will motivate us to LIVE WELL!
Healthy U on June 13
May 22, 2011 by Bill Scharffenberg
Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence
Lori Pearring, MA, MFT
Research shows consistently that our Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is more important than our IQ, and a better predictor of personal and professional success. We’ll look at proven strategies to increase our: Self Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management.
Come learn more about yourself and how you can be healthier in these four areas. You’ll walk away with five specific steps to grow in this area and increase your EQ.
Lori Pearring earned her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology in 2005 and specializes in marriage counseling, women’s issues, tough life transitions, and parenting of teens. In addition, Lori has extensive training in strengths-based assessment and coaching. She has been married almost 30 years and has four amazing adult children, and three wonderful grandkids. She has a passion for being healthy: physically, emotionally and spiritually, and truly enjoys life. Inspiring and genuine, Lori sees the potential in others and encourages personal growth and development. Lori enjoys helping her clients experience success on their life journey.
Reservations
Dinner service begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person in advance or $15 per person at the door. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
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Whole Healthy Kids June 10-13
May 21, 2011 by Bill Scharffenberg
Whole Healthy Kids is more than a cooking class, it is four fun-filled, hands-on days where students (ages 11-14 or grades 5-8) will combine nutrition, kitchen skills, exercise, and emotional health to grow into Whole Healthy Kids! Instructors include medical, health, food and education professionals. Hosted by Healthy U, a non-profit health education organization, the workshop will be held from June 10-13 at 1101 National Drive Suite A, Sacramento (North Natomas). Class size limited to 16 students. Call 916-928-1433 for more information and to register. Healthy U is affiliated with The Cancer Project, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and Coronary Health Improvement Program.
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Healthy U on May 9
April 15, 2011 by Bill Scharffenberg
Join Us for a Sacramento Movie Premiere
6:30 p.m. in North Natomas
1101-A National Dr, Sacramento 95834
No need for dinner – healthy movie snacks provided!
Call 916-835-8132 for reservations ($10 in advance, $15 at the door) or send email to charleen.HealthyU@gmail.com
About The Film
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope. In the mirror he saw a 310-pound man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn’t end well – with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn’t far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe’s personal mission to regain his health.
What emerges is nothing short of amazing – an inspiring tale of healing and human connection. Part road trip, part self-help manifesto, FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD defies the traditional documentary format to present an unconventional and uplifting story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves.
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Healthy U on April 11
March 21, 2011 by Bill Scharffenberg
How Managing Your Stress Can Save Your Life and Relationships
Paul Crampton, PhD
“Stress Is Ruining Your Life and Your Health”
“Stress Translates to Billions of Dollars in Healthcare Costs”
“Five Ways to Stop Stress Before It Stops You”
With headlines like these, it’s obvious that the negative side of stress has our attention trapped between its tightly clenched jaws. Yet amid the clamor over this “deadly” foe, a few voices from the scientific community say: Not so fast! There’s a service-minded side to stress too.
Paul Crampton will show us how to deal with the stressors in our lives. Through humor and practical insights we will learn how to manage bad stress and benefit from good stress.
Reservations
Dinner service begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person in advance or $15 per person at the door. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
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Healthy U on March 14
February 18, 2011 by Bill Scharffenberg
What is your “potential”? Is it ever too late for you to achieve your dreams? Did you know that Colonel Sanders didn’t start selling fried chicken until he was in his 60s? How about Grandma Moses? She started painting late in life and didn’t even realize earlier in life that she had the talent that she did! Sometimes we need help to identify our gifts and our goals and then map out a plan.
Life coach and mountain climber Jim Geiger will share his experiences preparing for and climbing five of the world’s seven continents’ summits?the highest peak on each continent. Jim has worked many years to reach his potential, and he will discuss how others can achieve, turning dreams into realities and conquering challenges in our lives. After all, being healthy is more than what we eat!
Reservations
Dinner service begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person in advance or $15 per person at the door. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
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Healthy U on January 10
December 10, 2010 by Bill Scharffenberg
Eat Well and Lose Weight in 2011: How Fiber-Filled Foods Really Work!
Bronwyn Schweigerdt, MS
Bronwyn Schweigerdt has a Master’s degree from Tufts University’s world-renowned School of Nutrition. The author of The Undiet: Painless Baby Steps to Permanent Weight Loss, Bronwyn is a college nutrition instructor and a popular public speaker who weaves humor into her presentation to discuss delicate topics, uses real life stories and gives practical, useful tools that can be integrated easily into everyday life. She is a newspaper contributing columnist and she works with Compassion International, promoting the health of needy children around the globe. Take this opportunity to hear from “Fiber Girl” and learn how a plant-based “Undiet” really works not only to lose weight but to lower cholesterol, and blood sugars. Learn how these foods can “undo” Type II diabetes. If you are in search of an “Undiet”, have diabetes, or pre-diabetes, this presentation could greatly improve the quality of your life in 2011.
Reservations
Dinner service begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person in advance or $15 per person at the door. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
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Healthy U on November 8
October 14, 2010 by Bill Scharffenberg
The Nutrition Prescription: Preventing and Curing Chronic Disease
Don Forrester, MD
Don Forrester received his undergraduate training as a chemical engineer and is certified by the American Academy of Family Practice and the American College of Physician Executives. He worked for over 30 years with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Sacramento, California. In addition to his medical practice, he held several leadership positions. After reading The China Study several years ago, he changed to a plant based diet and modified his medical practice. He is passionate about teaching wellness and helping people learn how to reverse degenerative diseases. He works to achieve a sustainable medical industry.
Reservations
Dinner service begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
Forks Over Knives on October 23
October 8, 2010 by Bill Scharffenberg
Special Advance Movie Screening
Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to “battle” these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases. Could it be there’s a single solution to all of these problems?
The soon to be released film, FORKS OVER KNIVES, examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed. The major storyline in the film traces the journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic.
FORKS OVER KNIVES utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage. The film features leading experts on health, examines the question “why we don’t know”, and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.
The filmmakers travel with Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced “nature’s perfect food”; to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments—while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
Reservations
A reception begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the movie screening at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and cost is $10 per person. Please call 916-835-8132 for reservations or email to charleen.HealthyU(a)gmail.com.
Healthy U on October 4
September 20, 2010 by Bill Scharffenberg
Milton R. Mills, M.D. serves as associate director of preventive medicine for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofi t organization dedicated to promoting preventive medicine, especially better nutrition, and higher standards in research.
Roberta Schiff, M.S. has served as President of the Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society for eight years. She has an M.S. degree in Health Education and studied whole foods nutrition at Gulliver’s Institute in New York City. Roberta does many presentations each year at confrerences such as Vegetarian Summerfest, Albany Vegetarian Expo and San Francisco World Veg Festival. She tables at numerous college and community events and teaches vegan cooking classes. Roberta also performs stand-up comedy.
