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Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies

What is the Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies Program?
Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies is an eight-week program offered to those individuals with metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, diabetes, or those at risk for heart disease or stroke.

The Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies Program includes:

  • sessions that meet once per week for 1½ hours each time
  • gentle relaxing yoga, with special focus on breathing and stress reduction techniques
  • mindful awareness of hunger levels
  • a delicious, healthy snack and instructions on the pros and cons of popular diets such as:
    • South Beach
    • The Zone
    • DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)
    • Mediterranean
    • Dean Ornish

This class is led by Dr. Sharon Plank, integrative medicine physician at the Center for Integrative Medicine. New Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies classes are forming now.  Please call 412-623-3023 for more information or to register.

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