“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 Mount Joy, PA at Juniper
Village at Mount Joy include our:
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YO and JOE on the GO so you don’t have a case of
the Mondays, let Juniper Village at Mount Joy get your week started off on the
right foot with our DRIVE UP coffee and fruit & yogurt parfait station
ready to serve you, just pull into Juniper and up to the station at the circle
to grab your FREE “yo and joe” and be on the go because after a quick stop with
us you’ll be smiling all day on June 5th from 6:30 am to 8:30 am. (No
need to RSVP; available while supplies last.)
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Father’s Day BBQ Burgers, Beers and Quality Time
as we are calling all sons, daughters, grandkids, nieces, nephews and friends
to honor the men in our lives with an honest to goodness old-fashioned BBQ, so
join us for all your cook out favorites to celebrate Father’s Day on June 16th
from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. (RSVP by June 12th to 717-492-9692.)
We look forward to sharing our June 2017 events in Mount Joy,
PA at Juniper Village at Mount Joy with you as you Live In Wellness.
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