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Eating for a Healthy Lifestyle
Topic Overview: (Presentation Date: January 18, 2012)
Currently, eighty –five percent of avoidable health care costs are linked with patient health behaviors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 40 percent of cancer, as well as 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, could be prevented if Americans exercised more, stopped smoking, and ate healthier.
Community Health Charities partnered with member charities the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, to provide eating healthy tips.The Alliance for a Healthier Generation provided tips on how to help a family eat healthier, get more from grocery store visits, control portions and become a better health role model for kids. The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation shared “Strategies for Busy People,” on how to make healthy choices easier so one can go from just setting health goals to achieving them. Webinar participants learned how to identify foods that are best at satisfying appetite and nourishing the body, how the environment can trick one into overeating and how to prevent this from happening.
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About the Speakers:
 Karen Buonocore is an Associate Director for the Healthy Schools Program at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Prior to her role as Associate Director, she served as Senior Project Manager, as well as Relationship Manager for the state of New Jersey for three years with the Alliance for a Healthier generation’s Healthy Schools Program Team. Karen earned her Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science/Fitness & Cardiac Rehab at Ithaca College, and has extensive experience in the health and fitness industry, including running her own personal training business in Boston & New York City, hosting a wide variety of interactive health and fitness workshops, and working in corporate, commercial and community settings.
 Teresa Ambroz is a Registered Dietitian and the mother of three active children. She has developed several award winning programs to assist individuals in living a healthier life. Currently, she works as the Health and Wellness Manager at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. She received her bachelor’s degree from the College of Saint Catherine in St. Paul, completed her dietetic internship at The University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics and earned her master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition at the University Of Minnesota School of Public Health.
 Laura Perdue is a Registered Dietitian and Health Educator at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. She has worked for several years promoting obesity and chronic disease prevention through healthy eating and physical activity. Currently, her duties include coordinating the Employee Wellness program at the Foundation. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, completed her dietetic internship at the University of Houston, and is currently completing her master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition at the University Of Minnesota School of Public Health.
About the Member Charities:
 The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to address one of the nation’s leading public health threats – childhood obesity. The goal of the Alliance is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity by 2015, and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation, the Alliance works to positively affect the places that can make a difference to a child’s health: homes, schools, doctor’s offices and communities. To learn more please visit: www.healthiergeneration.org
 The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) is a nonprofit organization that promotes and improves cardiovascular health. They are working to create a world without heart disease. Their groundbreaking research and innovative education programs reach thousands of people locally, nationally, and globally. To learn more please visit www.mplsheart.org
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