Archive for July, 2009
Sodium Content of Foods with Portion Estimator
Sodium Content of Foods helps patients with fluid retention and blood pressure control. Included is a guide to finding the sodium content on the Nutrition Facts food label and a chart for estimating portions.
Sex After Heart Attack or Heart Surgery
Studies show that part of the reason healthcare professionals don’t talk about sex with patients is fear of embarrassing the patient. If you feel uneasy raising the issue of sex, this 16 page e-booklet will help. Buy it now for $3.50.
Sex After Total Joint Replacement
This 16 page e-booklet will help you understand your feelings about sex and the precautions you must take during sex after a total hip or knee joint replacement. It shows positions you can use which will protect your new joint and make sex more comfortable. It is recommended by the Arthritis Foundation and featured in RN Magazine.
It’s Easy Eating Green – a nutrition guide for kids
Healthy eating is like a puzzle—you can fit together different foods to make your day complete in energy, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Eating right and exercising will make you feel great!
Knee Arthroscopy – treating your knee problem
Knee arthroscopy is a popular method to diagnose, monitor and treat knee problems. Healing time can be much shorter, patients usually go home on the same day and it leaves small scars.
Read Labels to Find the Salt (Sodium)
The best way to find the salt is to read the food labels on packaged foods—both the nutrition facts label and the ingredients list. Labels won’t list the amount of “salt,” it will list “sodium.”
Gestational Diabetes – what you should know
Managing diabetes means keeping your blood-glucose (blood-sugar) levels within a normal range. This is the same as the blood-glucose levels of a pregnant woman who doesnʼt have diabetes.
Tips for Reducing Sodium
Low Sodium Guidelines and Sodium Content of Foods brochures were created to help patients with fluid retention and blood pressure control. Get FREE brochures!
Traumatic Brain Injury Booklet
In an instant, lives are changed forever. It is the very suddenness with which a brain injury happens that often leaves a family with little time to prepare for, come to terms with, or adjust to the changes that such a catastrophe brings. This booklet was created to answer the questions most families have in the first few hours, days, and weeks after a loved one’s traumatic brain injury, stroke, aneurysm, or anoxic event.
Dash Diet Brochure
The American Heart Association recommends the DASH Diet because the DASH diet is an important way to prevent and treat high blood pressure. Download a FREE DASH diet or DASH Diet Quick Reference Guide.

