Freebies
Tools for a Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is not the time to be on a weight loss diet. But it is important to maintain a healthy weight gain as your baby grows. We have created some tools you can use to monitor your weight gain. If you’re not gaining enough weight, or gaining weight too fast, you can use the two day food chart to help identify ways to adjust your weight gain.
Tips for Preventing Complications From Diabetes
With diabetes, you have to work just a bit harder than others to eat right, keep active, and stay healthy. Things you do everyday have an effect on your body and your health. These are some things you can do to stay healthy. Print out our flier and put in on your refrigerator to help remind you of steps you can take to prevent complications from diabetes.
Kick Counts Worksheet – record your baby’s movements
Fetal kick counts help tell how active your baby is. Besides counting kicks, you will be counting every time your baby moves, rolls, or twists. Though strongly recommended for high risk pregnancies, counting fetal movements beginning at 28 weeks may be beneficial for all pregnancies.
Sample Letter to Employees for H1N1 Virus
Since we have not been sufficiently vaccinated to prevent the H1N1 flu, it’s important to inform employees about what they can do to prevent the spread of cold and flu viruses, particularly H1N1 (Swine flu). Keeping your workforce healthy and at work is a goal of many employers—our sample letter to employees will tell employees what they can do to protect themselves and their family from getting the H1N1 flu. Having a healthy workplace not only helps your business continue to run as it should, but it also keeps employees from taking illnesses home to their families.
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.
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Sex After Total Joint Replacement

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Gestational Diabetes – what you should know

Traumatic Brain Injury Booklet

Caring for Your Newborn

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Article Archive
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.”
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!
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.
Immunizations for Newborns to 6 Year Olds
School is about to start again and it’s time to make sure your kids have their immunizations and vaccines. Here is the link to the recommended immunizations for kids through age 6.
Hey Kids – Get Movin’ !
Take a 10-minute activity break every hour while you read, do homework or watch TV. Try to do these things for a total of 30 minutes every day. Get a FREE Get Movin’ Activity Pyramid!

