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April 12, 2008 – 5:00 am

We Recommend: Fruits and Veggies

Here’s a different take on “Fresh Ideas” - a great article on that issue of which type of fruits and veggies you should choose. We’ve discussed this before on Food for Thought but it never hurts to get a fresh reminder (sorry - couldn’t help the pun)!

link-post-icon.gifFruits and Veggies: Fresh, Canned, or Frozen?
By Christine McKinney, M.S., R.D., C.D.E

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March 3, 2008 – 7:00 am

Make every day a heart-healthy day.

Dish from the HeartAs American Heart Month draws to a close, we want to encourage everyone to remember that focusing on your heart health should be a year-round, every day effort.

We hope you found the articles posted this month on Food for Thought helpful towards your own personal heart health. It’s been educational and inspirational for us as well. You can always reread this month’s posts and find new articles to read by visiting our Heart Health and Healthy Living categories.

We will continue this discussion on our blog as we believe one of the core benefits of Let’s Dish! is that you can always have a freezer full of healthy, convenient meals.

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February 6, 2008 – 6:00 am

Dish from the Heart: Four generations, One story of heart disease

Today’s post is actually written by my father, Rick Corcoran, Sr. When I sign my name, I use “Jr.” to distinguish myself from my dad, but I am actually “Richard J. Corcoran IV”, the fourth generation with the name. It’s an honor to be part of this lineage, but there is one downside: in addition to a proud name, I also inherited a health profile that unfortunately includes heart disease. In support of our efforts during American Heart Month, I asked my father to share his first-hand experience when his father, my grandfather, unexpectedly passed away from heart disease.

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February 1, 2008 – 5:30 am

February 1st is National Wear Red Day - Stop by Let’s Dish! for a Heart Healthy Dish and Go Red TODAY!

National Wear Red Day at Let’s Dish!Show your support for the fight against heart disease and the American Heart Association by wearing RED today!

You’ll join millions of other men, women and children (even cities!) who will support the cause by wearing red on National Wear Red Day.  And, if you only have a few spare minutes on February 1st, here are two quick ways to encourage heart health in your life and in your community.  Spread the word:

1)  Join the Go Red Campaign at a Let’s Dish! location near you.*

During the day on Friday, February 1st, you’ll see our staff in red instead of their trademark orange to show our support for heart health.  And, we are raffling off American Heart Association cookbooks to a lucky disher in each session!   You can fill out a quick card to sign up for the Go Red Campaign right in the store; you’ll receive your free red dress pin for doing so and can proudly display your commitment to heart health all day (or month!) long.

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January 30, 2008 – 5:30 am

Dish from the Heart: Sticking around to see her grandchildren grow up.

Today we share the first in a series called “Dish from the Heart” - personal stories about the impact heart disease can have on an individual and their family.  We hope these first-hand experiences will inspire you to join Let’s Dish! and the American Heart Association in the fight against heart disease and to live each day with your heart health in mind.  You can find more information on the AHA’s health efforts and the Go Red Campaign in our Let’s Dish! stores this February.

Dish from the HeartMy Mother’s Story by Nikki Dungee

Last year, while preparing for one of our morning dish sessions in Columbia, I received a terrifying call from my mother’s doctor who informed me that my mother might be having a heart attack.

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January 29, 2008 – 5:30 am

Are you living a heart-healthy lifestyle? Three links to know for sure.

Heart Healthy!It would be hard to miss all the heart icons in our stores and on the Let’s Dish! website as we “Go Red” in February.  As Jeremy wrote yesterday, we’ve pledged to learn more about healthy living and do all we can to prevent heart disease.

And, we can do a lot - nutritious meals and heart-health awareness to thousands of families to start. We partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) in the Mid-Atlantic to bring our healthy meals together with education and real-life tools. Plus, we challenged our menu development team to create the healthiest Let’s Dish! menu yet (kudos - our February menu has 13 heart healthy meals!). 

In doing so, we quickly realized that a commitment to heart health is more than looking for “low fat” labels. Sure, a heart graphic is easy to spot, but what exactly does ”heart healthy” mean?

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January 28, 2008 – 6:00 am

Here’s to your heart: A preview of heart health month at Let’s Dish!

February is American Heart Month. It’s an important time at Let’s Dish!, and of course, an important time at Food For Thought, the Let’s Dish! blog.

Heart Health Post IconHeart disease is this country’s #1 killer, claiming over 900,000 American lives annually. Fortunately, and thanks in a large part to the great work of the American Heart Association (AHA), US heart disease death rates are down around 20% versus a decade ago. But millions of Americans live every day with heart disease. And who among us hasn’t been touched by the disease, through a relative, colleague, neighbor or friend?

Sadly, heart disease will never go away entirely.

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