eHealth Connection
December 2007

Planning a New Year's Resolution? We Can Help!

Already questioning whether you’ll be able to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Cooper can help.

A full roster of programs designed to help you reach your personal goals is offered throughout the year. 

With conveniently located classes scheduled around today’s busy lifestyles, Cooper’s programs in health, wellness and fitness can provide you with the strategies and support you need to look and feel great in 2008.

Here is a sampling of programs that can help you keep that promise you made to yourself:

• Decrease Your Stress – Yoga for Women
  Start the transformation in your life with this ancient practice that will promote a balance between body, mind and spirit. This class will improve flexibility and muscle strength, elevate endurance and energy, improve breathing and relax the mind.
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• Start An Exercise Program – Back to Basics for Women
  This class is ideal for those who are new to exercise or re-introducing fitness into their lifestyle. This class is also designed for the more mature woman with specific exercise needs or challenges like arthritis or osteoporosis. A gentle but challenging program, this class will help increase flexibility, range of motion, strength and overall stamina.
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• Lose Weight – The Healthy Weigh Program
  Here’s an individualized weight-management program with a refreshing approach to weight loss and nutritional well being. Participants learn to identify the personal steps they need to take to achieve and maintain their optimal weight and good health. Also provided is information on foods that lower cholesterol and/or blood pressure, and reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
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• Get Fit – Core and More for Women
  Featuring a blend of core-training exercises to help strengthen and tone the entire body and improve joint health. This low-impact, high-intensity workout combines the use of equipment and your own body resistance to build lean muscles while improving endurance, coordination and posture.
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• Quit Smoking – Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Program
  Cooper’s special evidence-based smoking cessation program is designed to help smokers quit by treating the mind-body-spirit issues involved with quitting smoking. Using proven therapeutic tools and techniques, licensed clinical psychologists offer personalized strategies to help you not smoke, as well as ways to increase your confidence so that you never smoke again. A special program for women, called Feel Great, Look Great, includes weight management strategies.
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• Learn to Save a Life – Heartsaver AED Classes
  The Heartsaver AED (automated external defibrillator) course teaches you how to use an AED, when to phone 911, how to give CPR, and how to help a choking victim. This course is designed for the general public, as well as for those who may have to respond to cardiovascular emergencies in the workplace, and for all lay rescuers who are required to obtain a course completion card documenting completion of a CPR course that includes use of an AED. This course is not intended for those who give direct patient care and are required to complete the Healthcare Provider Course.
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• Plan to Start a Family – Childbirth & Family Education Classes
  From childbirth-preparation and breastfeeding classes to big brother/big sister and car-seat safety classes, this program offers several educational programs to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your baby and your family.
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• Protect Yourself – Self-Defense for Women
  This introductory course offers the fundamentals of protecting yourself from physical assault, such as striking, blocking and grabbing. Taught by experts in martial arts and self-defense training, the program also helps to improve flexibility, muscle strength, physical conditioning and safety awareness.
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• Have More Fun – Belly Dance Basics for Beginners
  Learn about the origins and meaning of this ancient dance. This is a dance of diversity, for women of all ages, shapes & sizes. Basic posture and steps will be practiced to a variety of world music, and elements of deliberate, graceful movement will be emphasized.
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• Give Back to the Community – Volunteer at Cooper
  Volunteers at Cooper contribute their skills, time and energy to assist the hospital in a wide variety of activities. In addition to a program for adults, Cooper also has a student volunteer program for those between the ages of 14 and 18 (students must be in or about to enter ninth grade). Training is provided for all. More than 50 different volunteer assignments are available throughout the hospital. These include the Child Life Program—assisting pediatric patients in recreational play and education, and the Cuddling Program—holding, feeding, and comforting babies in the newborn nursery.
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For more information on Cooper’s classes and seminars, be sure to browse our complete calendar on our website at www.cooperhealth.org, or call 1-800-8-COOPER (1-800-826-6737) to speak with a member of our physician referral and information service.