Learn What Eating Behaviors Cause Weight Gain

Basking Ridge, NJ -- With spring right around the corner, it might be time to lose some of the winter weight we have packed on.

The Regional Chronic Disease Coalition of Morris and Somerset (RCDC) and its members, the Bernards Township Health Department and Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, will sponsor a program that will focus on highlighting eating behaviors that cause weight gain.

The program entitled “Is Food Friend or Foe?: Fighting Metabolic Syndrome” will be held on Wednesday, March 16 at 7 p.m. in the Warren Craft Room at the Bernards Township Municipal Building located at One Collyer Lane, Basking Ridge.

Debra Freschl, RDN from the Atlantic Health Metabolic Medicine, Weight, and Wellness Center in Morristown will be hosting the presentation and is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who has extensive experience in treating clients.

This program was designed to focus on treatment of the risk factors which when present simultaneously are called Metabolic Syndrome and can lead to increased risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. These metabolic conditions may include a large waistline; high blood pressure; high triglyceride level; low HDL cholesterol; and a high fasting blood sugar.

Participation is free but seating is limited. To register for this program, send your name, email address and phone number to health@bernards.org or phone 908-204-2520 by March 15.

Follow up sessions targeting the impact and benefit of exercise will be held in the same place and time on March 30: Let’s Get Physical and Slow the Damage from Metabolic Syndrome.

Further information is available at www.bernardshealth.org.