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Wellness Tip

Wellness Tip-Ella Kidder, Wellness Director

Antioxidant-Rich Blueberries: The Super Brain Food

You’ll never eat naked cereal again when you realize what blueberries do for your brain.  Blueberries improve memory and learning, and delay age-related cognitive decline like that seen with Alzheimer’s disease.  They’re delicious too.

GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE RE-BUILD OF PISGAH MANOR HEALTH CARE CENTER

Pisgah Valley Retirement Community, a Seventh-day Adventist faith-based organization, announces the Ground Breaking Ceremony for their new 67,000 square foot Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility- Pisgah Manor Health Care Center. The Ground Breaking Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 4:00-5:00pm at the construction site adjacent to Pisgah Villa Assisted Living Center, 102 Holcombe Cove Road, Candler, NC.

 

Wellness Tip

Wellness Tip– Ella Kidder, Wellness Director

Are You Killing Your Knees?

We put an enormous amount of mechanical stress on our knees on a daily basis. And typically, the knee is designed to take it.  However, certain bad habits could be shortening the life of your knees and opening the door to chronic pain and disability.

Wellness Tip

Wellness Tip– Ella Kidder, Wellness Director
Keep Skin Smooth with This Salad Ingredient
Real Age Tip of the Day

Wellness Tip

Wellness Tip– Ella Kidder, Wellness Director
Eat This Sauce to Lower Cholesterol
To lower your LDL, dribble this sauce on pasta, hot sandwiches, and warm flatbreads – marinara. In one study, adults who had high cholesterol but were otherwise healthy were able to lower their LDL levels simply by eating lycopene-rich tomato products every day.

Wellness Tip

Wellness Tip- Ella Kidder, Wellness Director
Winter Skin Savers
By Mehmet C. Oz, MD and Michael Roizen, MD

Wellness Center Featured Member: Linda Baker

Linda and her mom joined the Wellness Center several years ago so they could work out together and encourage each other. This year, Linda was told that she was on her way to becoming a Diabetic. With a low glycemic diet and exercise she has since lost 30 pounds. She loves to read, therefore keeping her eyesight has been an excellent motivator to working out. She has also noticed more energy.

Fabulous 50 - Joy Worley

Joy Worley, housekeeper, was selected as the winner in the District I Fabulous Fifty Award program and was recognized at a banquet held at the Grand Bohemiam Hotel in Asheville on October 18th.

Safe Trick or Treat

You are invited to bring your children to Trick or Treat at Pisgah Valley Retirement Community on October 31st.
The times for Pisgah Villa are 6:00-7:00pm and the times for Pisgah Manor are 6:30pm-8:00pm.

Transportation to Grocery and Drug Stores

Transportation to Grocery and Drug Stores
Just a reminder that we are now transporting Estates Residents to a local grocery store and drug store each Wednesday afternoon at 1:30. We will rotate our destinations depending on where you like to shop. Some suggestions have been Ingles, CVS, Walmart Supercenter, and Aldi.

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