MARK YOUR CALENDARS! SUMMARY OF UPCOMING SPEAKERS!
We are delighted to have such an exciting line-up of speakers who will be joining FNEW in the coming months! Please mark your calendars now! We will post additional details about the specific programs and speakers later. Please check under “Events” and your e-mail for the most current Newsletter with event details.
March 3rd–Sara Hacala
April 7th — Allison Spitzer
May 5th–Anne Miller
June 2nd–Julie Jansen
Hi Folks,
For those of us who are over thirty (OK, some of us by a decade or two), and have experience moments of forgetfulness – do you ever half jokingly refer to lapses in memory as “early Alzheimer’s” but secretly get a little anxious because it happens a little too often?
Well this is a bad news/good news story. The bad news is that our behaviors- specifically diet and life style -may be contributing to these cognitive lapses. The good news is that there is much we can do to reverse the process with sound nutrition, a “brain healthily diet” and increasing physical activity at a level that doesn’t require marathon training.
My moment of enlightenment came during a recent visit to Barnes and Nobles in Westport when I stopped to listen to a very engaging, entertaining, and obviously educated nutritionist speak about her book “Get Smart- Samantha Heller’s Nutrition Prescription for Boosting Brain Power and Optimizing Total Body Health”.
I bought the book-it is EXCELLENT- as entertaining as it is scientifically sound (I am an RN by training and vehemently opposed to dietary recommendations that not research based).
I checked out Ms Heller’s website-you can order her book on line at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. It is so good; I am buying it as early Christmas gift for all my over 30 friends. Now, if I can only remember where I put that Christmas list…