Fort Memorial Hospital
611 Sherman Avenue East
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 568-5000 | La linea de mensajes: (920) 568-5001
Fort Memorial Hospital
611 Sherman Avenue East
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 568-5000 | La linea de mensajes: (920) 568-5001
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Fort HealthCare | February 21, 2019 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
Learning to eat for a healthier heart made easier When it comes to nutrition, some simple diet changes can improve your lipid numbers. Lipid labs are used by doctors to check the levels of cholesterol. LDL (bad) cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, and your triglycerides all make up cholesterol levels. It’s important to know these numbers and what they mean in order to […]
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Shawn Biwer, BSN, RN | February 8, 2019 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
Managing your diabetes can feel overwhelming, but it isn’t impossible. Understanding what carbohydrates are and how they affect your diabetes will make managing it a much simpler task. Here are the five most important things every person with diabetes needs to know about carbohydrates: What are carbohydrates? Carbohydrates, or carbs, are one of the three […]
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Tiffany | January 31, 2019 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
Try These Heart Healthy Snacks For a Fun Super Bowl Time In my house, we have 3 seasons – Spring, Baseball and Football; which means that Super Bowl Sunday is the culmination of a lot of weeks of binge-watching pigskin and making snacks. On a side note, I do believe I heard my husband actually […]
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Shawn Biwer, BSN, RN | August 17, 2018 | 0 Comments | General Health |
People with diabetes often use artificial sweeteners to limit their consumption of added sugar. Unlike added sugar, artificial sweeteners do not raise your blood sugar in the short term. But using artificial sweeteners may not be the best approach to limiting sugar in your overall diet, and a lot of my patients have questions about […]
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Fort HealthCare | June 4, 2018 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
A macronutrient essential to the muscle-building process, protein molecules are made up of amino acids, several of which are considered “essential”. This means that they cannot be synthesized naturally and have to be sourced from your diet. Because protein not only helps us build muscle, but is also stored in tissue and bone and used […]
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Lisa Ashwill, RD CD | April 19, 2018 | 0 Comments | General Health |
I have heard many times how confusing the nutrition facts label can be. “What do I look at? How much am I supposed to get? What is important for me?” The nutrition facts label can be very complex, especially when we haven’t been told how to decipher it. For those of you who don’t want […]
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Tiffany | February 22, 2018 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
Create Heart-Healthy Habits 365 Days a Year! February is American Heart Month. With 17.3 million deaths each year from cardiovascular disease, it’s important to remember about your heart health, not just for the month of February, but year-round! Let’s take a quick glance at the statistics of heart disease and just how prevalent and dangerous […]
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Fort HealthCare | February 16, 2018 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
When it comes to nutrition and eating for a healthy heart, some simple diet changes can improve your lipid numbers. Lipid labs are the labs your doctor orders to check the levels of cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol, HDL (good) cholesterol, and your triglycerides. It’s important to know your numbers and to understand what those numbers means so […]
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Fort HealthCare | January 25, 2018 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
As the Super Bowl comes creeping up in the coming weeks, we start to prepare dishes and snacks for our parties with friends and family. Unfortunately, most of those dishes and snacks are packed with calories, fried in grease and just overall unhealthy. The average football fan eats about a day’s worth of calories during […]
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Fort HealthCare | March 30, 2017 | 0 Comments | Nutrition |
With childhood obesity rates where they are, it’s important to teach your kids how to make healthy choices, and what better way than to teach them to make nutritious snacks that are easy and delicious! The first step is setting aside a low cabinet or low refrigerator shelf where kids can access food to make snacks […]
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Fort Memorial Hospital
Fort Memorial Hospital
611 Sherman Avenue East, Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
611 Sherman Avenue East,
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
(920) 568-5000
La linea de mensajes: (920) 568-5001
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