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Department Comments

What foods to limit or avoided?

  • Grains: Salted breads, rolls, crackers, quick breads, self-rising flours, biscuit mixes, regular bread crumbs, instant hot cereals, commercially-prepared rice, pasta, stuffing mixes.
  • Fruits and Vegetables: none.
  • Commercially-prepared potatoes and vegetable mixes, regular canned vegetables and juices, vegetables frozen with sauce or pickled vegetables, processed fruits with salt or sodium.
  • Dairy: Whole milk, malted milk, chocolate milk, buttermilk.
  • Protein: Smoked, cured, salted, or canned meat, fish, or poultry such as bacon and sausages.
  • Fats: Cut back on solid fats like butter, lard, and margarine.
  • Condiments and snacks: Salted and canned peas, beans, and olives, salted snack foods, fried foods, soda or other sweetened drinks, commercially-softened water.
  • Sweets: High-fat baked goods such as muffins, donuts, pastries, commercial baked goods.
Helpful tip: When you go to a grocery store have a list or a meal plan. Do not shop when you are hungry to avoid cravings for foods.

Mental Health and Heart Health Are Connected!

 

For years, doctors thought the connection between mental health and heart health was strictly behavioral. For example the person who is feeling down seeking relief from smoking, drinking or eating fatty foods.

That thinking has started to change. Research shows there could be physiological connections, too. The biological and chemical factors that trigger mental health issues also could influence heart disease.

Read Full Article www.heart.org

 
True Love:  Loving Ourselves More
by Dr. Bernadine Duncan, Director of Student Counseling Services

Health Education & Promotion

Take less than 3 minutes to watch the video below. Your heart depends on it. 
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