Living Well is a free program held in the Meota Community Complex Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon.
It's a New Year, so plan for a new healthier life by learning how with attendance.
February will offer the new revised edition of Living Well sessions commencing Feb. 13. Pre-registration is required, phone Peg at 306-446-8613. Two trained leaders meet with the group for two and a half hours, once a week for six consecutive weeks. Dates are Feb, 13, 20, 27, March 6, 13 and 20, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Classes are fun and practical. The emphasis is on knowledge, understanding and on building skills for managing health while maintaining an active fulfilling life. The new revised sessions are for caregivers and individuals who will find 100 tips and ideas to prevent disease and manage health. These tips and ideas came from physicians, health care professionals as well as ordinary people, who have learned positive ways to manage and keep healthy.
Should the community initiative offered by Prairie North Health Region not be supported, the program will be moved to other areas wanting the service, so take advantage.
February is Heart Month so show a little tender, loving care to your heart, the hardest working muscle in you body. To show tender loving care for your heart, to keep it healthy and happy, you need to adopt a healthy life style. At the Meota Complex health education and walking program you can learn how to stay healthy by learning about the benefits of regular exercise, healthy eating and much, much more.
A balanced and nutritious diet with regular walking exercises reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke, can reduce high blood pressure to normal levels, control blood glucose levels, regulate cholesterol and increase lean muscle mass while burning body fat to manage weight. You will learn how to exercise so you will know not to push your heart past its limits that causes strain and damage to its muscles from over exertion.
With group and program support you'll better be able to stay with your goals and achieve success. The success will ensure you have a healthy heart because you'll have given it tender loving care.
Program times are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon, with a "stretch and tone" portion at 10 a.m.
- By Carmen Beaumont, program co-ordinator of health education and walking program at the Meota Complex.
