Heart Healthy Cooking Topic of Free Lunch and Learn at Rogue Valley Medical Center

Feb. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- MEDFORD, Ore.--Your heart loves exercise, but to be truly happy, it also needs a heart-healthy diet. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found a heart-healthy diet can reduce your risk of heart disease or stroke by 20 percent, and your heart will feel great, too.

Join heart nutrition specialist Amy Eaton, BS, ES of RVMC Cardiac Rehab for “Cooking for a Happy Heart,” a free lunch and learn event on Feb. 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Smullin Health Education Center on the Rogue Valley Medical Center campus in Medford.

Eaton will share her diet strategies for heart health and help you to understand how your food choices impact your heart and your life.

The event is free and the lunch is heart-healthy, but registration is required and space is limited. Please call 888-688-4920 or register online at http://www.asante.org/classes-events.

The presentation is part of the “Heath and Sole Club” series presented by Asante Community Health Education. “Rogue Valley Medical Center is nationally-recognized for excellence in heart care,” said Sarah Walker, Asante Community Health Education. “And this heart health series is meant to help everyone in the Rogue Valley take care of their hearts.”

To learn more about the series, visit us online at Heart and Sole at https://www.asante.org/RVMC/about-us/news-media/2011/pr01....

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Asante Health System is a non-profit organization providing advanced medical care to over 550,000 people in Southern Oregon and Northern California. It includes Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford and Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass.