Have you taken care of your heart today? Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest killer in the United States and February is American Heart Month. February is declared to be American Heart Month in order to draw more attention to cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.
Part of taking care of your heart includes eating healthy foods and watching your weight.
Ten Foods for a Healthy Heart:
Dietary advice for reducing heart disease risk includes eating a balanced diet with less saturated fat from red meats, more fresh fruits and vegetables, more fish, less sugar, more fiber and for many people, fewer total calories. Then you can make your heart and the rest of your cardiovascular system even healthier by adding more of these foods:
Salmon Red Wine (In moderation 4-8oz/day)
Olive Oil Whole Grains
Oats Green Leafy Vegetables
Apples Tomatoes
Almonds Soy
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Surgeon General Issues Support for Community Breastfeeding Initiatives
Breastfeeding Will Gain National Support as WIC Strategic Plan is Released to Improve State and Local WIC Clinic Breastfeeding Services
WASHINGTON, DC, 21 January 2011 — Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin released “The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding” on January 20, which defined evidence-based strategies for communities to promote breastfeeding and reduce barriers that new mothers face. The issuance aligns with the release of the National WIC Association’s (NWA) Breastfeeding Strategic Plan to encourage all WIC programs to improve breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. State and local WIC clinics will aim to increase breastfeeding rates through NWA’s “Six Steps to Achieve Breastfeeding Goals for WIC Clinics,” which promote breastfeeding as the infant feeding norm, provide breastfeeding-friendly environments, ensure access to well-trained breastfeeding clinic staff, develop procedures to accommodate breastfeeding mothers and babies, train all clinic staff members to become breastfeeding counselors and advocates, and support exclusive breastfeeding through assessment, evaluation, and assistance.
“The National WIC Association is proud of WIC’s role in promoting breastfeeding to the nation, indeed WIC breastfeeding rates have been on the rise since 1990 and NWA’s Breastfeeding Strategic Plan and Six Steps to Achieve Breastfeeding Goals for WIC Clinics will help to assure WIC’s role as the nation’s go to source for breastfeeding promotion and support,” said the Rev. Douglas A. Greenaway, NWA’s President & CEO. “Moreover, exclusive breastfeeding plays a key role in reducing childhood overweight and obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), respiratory ailments, allergies, ear infections, along with many other illnesses, and has been linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and certain breast and ovarian cancers for breastfeeding mothers.”
WIC serves children to age five, including roughly 50% of all infants born in the United States. And 61% of WIC participants reside in families with incomes below the poverty level. WIC helps to ensure infants’ and children’s normal growth, reduces levels of anemia, increases immunization rates, improves access to regular health care and social services and improves diets.
NWA endorses breastfeeding as the optimal nutrition choice through the first year of a child’s life and promotes the associated health benefits for the mother and infant. NWA is the education arm and the advocacy voice of the 9 million mothers and young children who participate in WIC and the nation’s 12,200 WIC service provider agencies. NWA is in full support of “The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding” to reduce barriers in communities for women who want to breastfeed.
WASHINGTON, DC, 21 January 2011 — Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin released “The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding” on January 20, which defined evidence-based strategies for communities to promote breastfeeding and reduce barriers that new mothers face. The issuance aligns with the release of the National WIC Association’s (NWA) Breastfeeding Strategic Plan to encourage all WIC programs to improve breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. State and local WIC clinics will aim to increase breastfeeding rates through NWA’s “Six Steps to Achieve Breastfeeding Goals for WIC Clinics,” which promote breastfeeding as the infant feeding norm, provide breastfeeding-friendly environments, ensure access to well-trained breastfeeding clinic staff, develop procedures to accommodate breastfeeding mothers and babies, train all clinic staff members to become breastfeeding counselors and advocates, and support exclusive breastfeeding through assessment, evaluation, and assistance.
“The National WIC Association is proud of WIC’s role in promoting breastfeeding to the nation, indeed WIC breastfeeding rates have been on the rise since 1990 and NWA’s Breastfeeding Strategic Plan and Six Steps to Achieve Breastfeeding Goals for WIC Clinics will help to assure WIC’s role as the nation’s go to source for breastfeeding promotion and support,” said the Rev. Douglas A. Greenaway, NWA’s President & CEO. “Moreover, exclusive breastfeeding plays a key role in reducing childhood overweight and obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), respiratory ailments, allergies, ear infections, along with many other illnesses, and has been linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and certain breast and ovarian cancers for breastfeeding mothers.”
WIC serves children to age five, including roughly 50% of all infants born in the United States. And 61% of WIC participants reside in families with incomes below the poverty level. WIC helps to ensure infants’ and children’s normal growth, reduces levels of anemia, increases immunization rates, improves access to regular health care and social services and improves diets.
NWA endorses breastfeeding as the optimal nutrition choice through the first year of a child’s life and promotes the associated health benefits for the mother and infant. NWA is the education arm and the advocacy voice of the 9 million mothers and young children who participate in WIC and the nation’s 12,200 WIC service provider agencies. NWA is in full support of “The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding” to reduce barriers in communities for women who want to breastfeed.
National WIC Association Washington Update
President Issues Breastfeeding Workplace Accommodations Memo for Federal Government
Washington, DC, 21 December 2010 – President Barrack Obama issued a Memorandum yesterday to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management requesting that the Office develop new guidelines for "appropriate workplace accommodations" for federal employees who are nursing mothers.
The Order, required by the Affordable Care Act mandating new breastfeeding rights primarily for hourly workers in the private and public sectors, requests that the federal government take a further step by establishing new guidelines for all federal employees, no matter their status.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, established special nursing rooms in 2007 for House staffers. Senate offices and committees must make similar breastfeeding accommodations for staffers.
Much of the original Breastfeeding Promotion Act sponsored by NWA Leadership Award Recipient Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR, that ensured that women cannot be discriminated against or fired for breastfeeding or pumping breast milk during breaks or lunch and provided tax breaks to employers who establish special rooms for breastfeeding mothers or that rent lactation-related equipment was incorporated into the Affordable Care Act.
Washington, DC, 21 December 2010 – President Barrack Obama issued a Memorandum yesterday to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management requesting that the Office develop new guidelines for "appropriate workplace accommodations" for federal employees who are nursing mothers.
The Order, required by the Affordable Care Act mandating new breastfeeding rights primarily for hourly workers in the private and public sectors, requests that the federal government take a further step by establishing new guidelines for all federal employees, no matter their status.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, established special nursing rooms in 2007 for House staffers. Senate offices and committees must make similar breastfeeding accommodations for staffers.
Much of the original Breastfeeding Promotion Act sponsored by NWA Leadership Award Recipient Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR, that ensured that women cannot be discriminated against or fired for breastfeeding or pumping breast milk during breaks or lunch and provided tax breaks to employers who establish special rooms for breastfeeding mothers or that rent lactation-related equipment was incorporated into the Affordable Care Act.
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