Healthy Living
DVD Series at Sunnybrook Community Church (Library)
by LifeLong Health donated by WELLness Ministry
---You may check these out from the Sunnybrook Community Church library for your LIFE group, your family, or yourself to learn how to take care of your body (God's Temple) to be the hands and feet of Jesus to your family, workplace, Sunnybrook Body of Christ, across Siouxland and the World.

The Healthy Living DVD Series, on studio-shot DVD’s includes ten inspiring and practical presentations by Don Hall, DrPH, CHES. Content is based on the latest scientific population research. The first eight topics are those in the Eight Weeks to Wellness program (You can check this manual out from the Sunnybrook Library also). The other two topics are good follow-up topics. Each “health presentation” is 40-50 minutes long, and then has a 10-20 minute question and answer session.

1. Developing a Healthy Lifestyle
· How to take small steps for big rewards in your health
· How to cut your risk of dying by 50% to 75% in the next 10 years
· How avoiding some behaviors contributes to health and other behaviors increase disease risks
· The top five predictors of a healthy life
· How a healthy lifestyle can add five to ten years or more to your life and also add LIFE to your years

2. Becoming More Physically Active
· How much exercise you need to have good health
· How regular physical activity protects against early markers of disease such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and triglycerides
· How physical activity protects your body against diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, obesity, and depression
· How to develop your own fitness program that is FUN, not too demanding, but effective
· How other people have benefited for living an active lifestyle

3. Choosing Healthy Fats
· How substituting healthy fats for unhealthy fats is a good and tasty practice
· How healthy fats can lower your risks for heart disease, and unhealthy fats raise the risk
· How nuts, avocadoes, and olives can be a part of a healthy diet (nutrition) that cuts disease risks
· How essential omega three fatty acids can improve your health and can be eaten in foods everyday
· Which foods are best for lowering cholesterol and how to avoid trans fatty acids

4. Choosing Healthy Carbohydrates
· How whole grains can lower the risks for diabetes, stroke and heart disease
· How fruits and vegetables can help to prevent high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity
· How carbohydrates can be evaluated as helpful or harmful to your health
· How to measure glycemic index to measure the effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels, insulin, and obesity
· How your risk of developing heart disease or diabetes can be cut in half by eating the right kinds of carbohydrates

5. Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
· Discover the best way to manage your weight and lose weight for LIFE
· Learn why short term restrictive diets are ineffective
· How good eating and daily physical activity habits can help you win your battle with weight
· Learn practical steps to achieve a healthy weight
· Discover how psychosocial factors influence overeating and how to control these factors
· The principles research has found what are the best predictors of long term weight management

6. Enhancing the Mind/ Body Connections
· How the thoughts we think can either help or hurt our health
· How social support and interaction contribute to good health and increased longevity
· How the physical, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions all work together for total body health and improved quality of life
· How a positive mental outlook and happiness contribute to a longer life
· How physical activity can help prevent or combat depression and improve mental health
· How to recognize dependencies that can harm your health and well-being

7. Coping With Stress
· The relationship between stress and heart health, depression, anxiety, and survival
· How to recognize stress and where it is coming from
· New techniques and strategies for reducing or relieving stress
· Ways to relax and break the stress cycle
· How you can use the discomfort of stress to motivate you to change or deal with stressors you’ve been ignoring

8. Getting Preventive Health Checks
· Discover the difference between primary and secondary prevention
· How preventive checks are different from a yearly physical
· Safety awareness that can save lives
· What health tests are best for early disease detection, prevention, and treatment
· How to work with your doctor to make sure you stay informed and well

9. Building Heart Health
· Which foods are best for your heart health
· Which exercises are best for lowering risk of a heart attack
· Five steps you can take to prevent or lower high blood pressure
· How drinking water impacts heart disease
· Which fats lower cholesterol the best
· How you can cut your risk of a heart attack by 50% to 85%

10. Preventing Diabetes
· What are the major risk factors for getting type 2 diabetes
· How to improve the body’s use of insulin
· Which dietary fats decrease the risk for type 2 diabetes
· How a low glycemic diet (healthy nutrition) reduces the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes
· How dietary fiber and milk consumption affect insulin resistance (a precursor to getting type 2 diabetes)
· How to begin a sensible physical activity program that can lower the risk for type 2 diabetes