þ Additionally, there is a class on Cholesterol and Your Heart. This class helps you understand how exercise and a heart healthy diet can lower your risk for heart attack and stroke.

þ Then there is a class on CPR and First Aid. This class covers breathing and cardiac emergencies.

þ For those with smoking habits there is a class, Freedom from Tobacco, and a Quit Tobacco Workshop. You will learn about nicotine addiction and how to successfully stop smoking.

þ For those with other problems there is a class on Healthier Living - Managing Ongoing Health Conditions. Here you will learn how to deal with ongoing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and fatigue.

þ Another class on Healthy Lifestyle and Weight Management Program provides information on how to make lifestyle changes and get started on a healthy eating and stress management program. Another class, Managing Your Weight, teaches you how to eat healthy foods and how to prepare them…

þ A class on Medical Advance Planning can teach you how to deal with a crisis situation, and who will help you. Let’s not forget about a class on Mindful Meditation. Meditation and gentle Yoga help you to cope with stress, pain and illness.

þ A class on Overcoming Depression can be very important. We are all confronted with depression at one time or another and understanding depression can be a valuable tool. This, coupled with Depression Overview Class, can inform you abut depression treatment options. A class on Stress/Mind/Body medicine can help you with other sources of stress in your life, and techniques to help you manage them.

þ Along with these classes, is perhaps the most important class of all, Ways to a Healthier Heart. This class is somewhat of an overview of all the other classes discussed and is recommenced as the first step for members who have recently had a heart attack, bypass surgery, angina or angioplasty. These are all wonderful classes and they are there for you to learn and benefit from.

Let’s all stay healthy!