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‘Healthy Eats’ – Tips for healthy grilling

Rebecca Cerio — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:29:38 +0000

Upstate University Hospital dietitian Terry Podolak, RD, our ‘Healthy Eats’ expert, offers lots of great tips for healthy summer grilling. Read the story: Dietitians say summer grilling can offer healthy options in meat, produce
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‘Healthy Eats’ – “The Jungle Effect” shows how eating right improves health and mood

Rebecca Cerio — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:26:16 +0000

Upstate dietitian Terry Podolak, RD, introduces ‘Healthy Eats’, a new segment focusing on nutrition and ‘mindful eating’. In this edition, Podolak shares one of her favorite books, “The Jungle Effect” by Daphne Miller, MD, and explains how it can help you eat right and improve your health and mood. The book suggests moving away from the standard American diet, and to look at ancestral recipes and traditions. Read more: The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME).

‘Healthy Eats’ – What is ‘mindful eating’?

Rebecca Cerio — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:20:00 +0000

Terry Podolak, RD, registered dietitian at Upstate University Hospital, describes the concept of ‘mindful eating’ – an awareness of hunger and fullness, eating triggers, how to recognizing the difference between physical and non-physical hungers and how to cope in a healthy way. Read more about: The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME)

Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Could blueberries and strawberries really be anti-heart attack secret agents?

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:30:05 +0000

Dr. Richard O’Neill shares his delight in learning that a study has shown his favorite berries to be heart attack ‘secret’ – or not so secret – agents. Read the story: Berry-rich diet credited with one-third drop in MI risk in NHS 2 cohort

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The four pillars of wellness

Rebecca Cerio — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:03:21 +0000

Dr. Kaushal Nanavati, director of Integrative Medicine at the Upstate Cancer Center, reveals how lifestyle can improve your overall health and sense of peace by balancing mind, body, and spirit, and potentially prevent illness. With a focus on nutrition, exercise, stress management, and spirituality, learn how integrating some small lifestyle changes can make a big difference in your health and wellness.

Four Pillars of Wellness: The New Language of Health In CNY

7/15/12 Farmers’ market now at two Upstate locations

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:40:26 +0000

Upstate Volunteer Services coordinator Karen Wentworth and community volunteer Bonnie McCabe announce a new location for Upstate’s weekly farmers’ market – Upstate University Hospital at Community General – which joins the original site located in the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital parking lot. Enjoy the bounty of the season – two locations on two different days – open to the public! A variety of local farmers and small businesses will be at the markets, bringing fresh local produce, baked goods, jams, jellies and crafts. For a full listing of participating vendors, check us out on Facebook.

7/8/12 The benefits of organic vs. non-organic

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:45:27 +0000

Dr. Donna Bacchi, chair of Upstate’s Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and registered dietitian Maria Erdman discuss the benefits of eating organic produce rather than the conventional kind.

Upstate expands farmer’s market to Community campus

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7/8/12 How her garden grows

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:40:38 +0000

Upstate respiratory therapist Kristina Sherman, an avid gardener, shares her passion and the benefits of growing her own organic vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers.

7/8/12 Canning basics to preserve summer’s bounty

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:35:04 +0000

Retired newspaper jounalist and avid travelor Nancy Fasoldt shares her knowledge of and enthusiasm for canning to preserve summer’s bounty. She is also the creator of iCan 2012, a day-long series of short seminars aimed at sharing the basics, renewing old skills and engaging the good, pure food lover in all of us.

2/12/12 Bariatrics chef explains how to eat well after weight loss surgery

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000

Chef Dave Fouts talks about his own weight loss journey and how he arrived at the decision ten years ago to have bariatric surgery. Chef Dave has written several cookbooks and now devotes himself to helping fight obesity by educating, inspiring and motivating people to live healthier lives.

Read more about Chef Dave’s weight loss journey: www.chefdave.org

1/8/12 Dietary and lifestyle changes for successful weight loss

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:20:20 +0000

Registered dietitian Kerry Dal talks about what dietary changes weight loss surgery patients have to make before surgery, what it’s like immediately after, and then the rest-of-the-lifetime changes that are necessary for the surgery to be successful.

1/1/12 Humorist Jeff Kramer gets serious about his health

Rebecca Cerio — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:38:39 +0000

Humorist Jeff Kramer had a health scare over the summer that prompted him to remake his life and become healthier. He now is an avid bicyclist, and he has lost 60-ish pounds by eating right and exercising. He is sharing his story through Upstate in the ‘Upstate Health‘ publication and on the ‘What’s Up at Upstate’ blog.

Read Jeff’s official “Reaching for Marsby” blog.

12/4/11 How to Survive the Winter Holiday Eating Season

Rebecca Cerio — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:34:15 +0000

Clinical dietitian Maureen Franklin will speak about the winter holiday eating season and how to cope. She will offer strategies for surviving a buffet table, how to mingle and make merry without centering only on food, plus some healthier options for food-based gift giving.

Resources: Holiday Meal Planning, My Food Advisor, Food and Fitness - from the American Diabetes Association.

11/27/11 Living Well With Diabetes and Celiac Disease

Rebecca Cerio — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:53:53 +0000

Beth Hillson, gluten-free chef and founder of the Gluten-Free Pantry, talks about living well with Diabetes and Celiac Disease. Hillson, diagnosed with celiac disease in 1976, is president of the American Celiac Disease Alliance and a food editor of Living Without magazine.

Read Beth’s blog at GlutenFreeMakeovers.com.

11/27/11 Healthy Monday Campaign

Rebecca Cerio — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:52:32 +0000

Upstate’s Donna Bacchi MD, MPH, and Syracuse University’s Thomas Dennison PhD talk about the “Healthy Monday” campaign. Based on the theory that ‘Monday is the January of your week’, the national initiative hopes to help end chronic preventable diseases by offering weekly prompts and programs to support people in starting and sustaining healthy behaviors.

Learn more about: Healthy Monday Syracuse – ‘the day all health breaks loose’.