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Welcome to the RSS Wellness Corner
Wellness is more than health and disease prevention. It is about creating a lifestyle that is deliberately focused on physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Here, you will find information about healthy eating, chronic disease prevention and maintenance, health tips, and more. Our goal is to offer you tools to help you live your best life.
What is the RSS Cooking Club?
The RSS Cooking Club is for anyone who loves to eat but wants to learn more about cooking. It doesn't matter what your comfort level is in the kitchen. Whether you are interested in learning more about cooking for yourself or just enjoy seeing how it's done, this club is for you.
When you join the RSS Cooking Club, you will get:
- Live cooking demonstrations with a professional nutritionist or dietitian
- Exclusive access to videos and other recipe and cooking information.
- Get new, simple healthy recipes or "healthified" takes on old favorites
- Learn new cooking techniques and refresh your old skills
- Focus on new tools (like air fryers) and how they can be used to make your food healthy
- Share recipes and cooking tips with other club members
- Recreate dishes for single servings
- Help create an RSS Healthy Recipe Book
- Special events with other RSS instructor.
Classes will be online and in person at RSS. Participants attending in person will be able to sample the food after the demonstration. Click here to register for the RSS Cooking Club.
Click on the button below to get all the latest recipes and videos from the Cooking Club events!
June is Alzheimer's Awareness Month
Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease that is caused by complex brain changes following cell damage. It leads to dementia symptoms that gradually worsen over time. The most common early symptom of Alzheimer’s is trouble remembering new information because the disease typically impacts the part of the brain associated with learning first. As Alzheimer’s advances, symptoms get more severe and include disorientation, confusion and behavior changes. Eventually, speaking, swallowing and walking become difficult.
Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life, while Alzheimer's is a specific disease. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia.
From the Alzheimer's Association, If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or another dementia, you are not alone. The Alzheimer's Association is the trusted resource for reliable information, education, referral and support to millions of people affected by the disease.
- Call the 24/7 Helpline: 800.272.3900
- Locate your local Alzheimer's Association
- Explore Alzheimer's Association Virtual Library
- Create an action plan using the ALZNavigator™ tool
Feeling stressed? Don't worry. We all feel stress or anxiety at different times. There are things that you can do to help manage stress and anxiety. Below are videos that will help you to understand the mind/body connection of stress, and tools to help you feel calmer and more in control.
Stress and Anxiety Management videos
Cooking and Health Information
Click on the pictures below to get healthy recipes, cooking videos by the RSS Nutrition Educator or Dietician, and Health information to print and share.
Want to know what are the best quality vitamins and supplements to take? Go to Labdoor.com for independently researched information.
If you are looking to eat more plant-based meals and want to get recipes, information and more go to the Plant-Based Kickstart Program.
Health and Wellness Articles
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Personal health literacy is your ability to find, understand, and use health information to make the best possible decisions for yourself
May is Older Americans Month. Let's celebrate the wide range of aging experiences and promote independence and fulfillment as we age.
Stress is a part of normal day-to-day living. It's usually a result of changes that occur in life. Some of them can be major events like a divorce or loss. Some of them can be relatively minor such as a change in schedule or getting caught in traffic. And, while each of us has a different reaction to stress in general, there are certain things we can each do to help cope. It may even force you to rethink handling stressful situations in new ways.
