Willow Brook Seventh-day Adventist Church

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Health Ministries

 

Please see our church calendar for upcoming events and monthly presentations such as Walk With a Doc, Krush with Kristina, cooking classes, and an upcoming depression seminar (fall 2023) to name a few.  For questions or suggestions please contact us at wbhealthmin@gmail.com.

RESOURCES:

https://nutritionfacts.org/

https://walkwithadoc.org/join-a-walk/locations/williamsport-maryland/

https://www.timelesshealinginsights.org/

Reading Recommendations

What to Eat by Marion Nestle 

Written in 2007, What to Eat by Marion Nestle, is a book about how to make sensible food choices that still apply today. Consider that the supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for your purchases with profits—not health or nutrition—in mind. This book takes you on a guided tour of the supermarket, beginning in the produce section and continuing around the perimeter of the store to the dairy, meat, and fish counters, and then to the center aisles where you find the packaged foods, soft drinks, bottled waters, baby foods, and more. Along the way, it tells you just what you need to know about such matters as fresh and frozen, wild and farm-raised, organic and “natural,” and omega-3 and trans fats. It decodes food labels, nutrition and health claims, and portion sizes, and shows you how to balance decisions about food on the basis of freshness, taste, nutrition, and health, but also social and environmental issues and, of course, price.  The health ministry team has five used copies available for a small donation to the ministry; please contact wbhealthmin@gmail.com if you would like one.