In retirement communities, mealtimes are vital for seniors, fostering socialization and delivering essential nutrients. To ensure a wholesome diet, communities prioritize well-balanced meals with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Seniors, prone to health risks, must maintain good nutrition to avoid weight loss, depression, and weakened immune systems. The National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging reports over 5.5 million seniors facing food insecurity. Retirement communities address nutritional challenges by providing chef-prepared communal meals. This approach ensures proper nutrition, fosters a social atmosphere, and creates a well-rounded dining experience for residents.
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Nourishing Seniors, Building Communities
In retirement communities, mealtimes are vital for seniors, fostering socialization and delivering essential nutrients. To ensure a wholesome diet, communities prioritize well-balanced meals with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Seniors, prone to health risks, must maintain good nutrition to avoid weight loss, depression, and weakened immune systems. The National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging reports over 5.5 million seniors facing food insecurity. Retirement communities address nutritional challenges by providing chef-prepared communal meals. This approach ensures proper nutrition, fosters a social atmosphere, and creates a well-rounded dining experience for residents.
Good Nutrition & Digestion = Good Health
No matter how clean, organic, and healthy you eat, if your body isn’t able to digest, absorb, and process essential nutrients properly, you are not benefitting from your efforts.
To do this, your stomach needs to fully digest, your intestines need to completely absorb, and your liver needs to properly process the food you eat.
One of the simplest ways to correct and improve any issue you may have with the digestive process is through nutritional testing.
If a weakness is found in a specific organ, nutritional supplementation can be added to your diet to improve the digestive process and in turn, help you benefit from your wise choices.
March Nutrition Boost: Greens!
What are you doing to up your nutrition in March, after all it’s Nutrition Month! A great way is to eat more veggies especially leafy greens. One way of getting your greens in is by taking greens powders. Indigo Greens and Green Up are 2 exceptional greens powders. Added to a smoothie or consumed every morning with water will make a huge difference in your day. A great source of prebiotic fibre, folate and so much more, these powders improve energy, immunity, and even dental health.
Try one today!!
March Seniors’ Events at RDPL
Downtown Walk & Talk (every Tuesday at 12:15)
Book Clubs (various dates/times)
Beginner Adult Yoga (online every Wednesday at 7 p.m.)
Readers’ Theatre (March 21)
Sip n’ Stitch (March 21)
Red Deer Cancer Connect (March 19)
Breaking Cover: Red Deer Players (March 23)
Crib, Cards, Coffee and Conversation (March 24)
First Thursday Concert Series (first Thursday of each month)
MEALS AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
The Golden Circle is your one-stop shop for nutritious meals! We currently offer in-house dining Mondays for Soup & Sandwich lunch, Wednesdays for Hot Lunch, and Fridays for breakfast, every week. But have no fear the rest of the days of the week as we have a Homestyle Frozen Meals program accessible to all. Offering beef, pork, chicken, fish and omelette options, all meals are made fresh in our commercial kitchen and frozen in individual portions for your convenience. We also have Pot Pies and soups, as well. Check the website for the menu www.goldencircle.ca
Membership is not required for either in-house dining or to purchase the frozen meals, but Golden Circle members get a $2.00 discount on every in-house meal as well as many other benefits. Call 1-403-343-6074 or email [email protected] for more information on our meals and the benefits of membership!
Nourishing Seniors, Building Communities
In retirement communities, mealtimes are vital for seniors, fostering socialization and delivering essential nutrients. To ensure a wholesome diet, communities prioritize well-balanced meals with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Seniors, prone to health risks, must maintain good nutrition to avoid weight loss, depression, and weakened immune systems. The National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging reports over 5.5 million seniors facing food insecurity. Retirement communities address nutritional challenges by providing chef-prepared communal meals. This approach ensures proper nutrition, fosters a social atmosphere, and creates a well-rounded dining experience for residents.
March Seniors’ Events at RDPL
Downtown Walk & Talk (every Tuesday at 12:15)
Book Clubs (various dates/times)
Beginner Adult Yoga (online every Wednesday at 7 p.m.)
Readers’ Theatre (March 21)
Sip n’ Stitch (March 21)
Red Deer Cancer Connect (March 19)
Breaking Cover: Red Deer Players (March 23)
Crib, Cards, Coffee and Conversation (March 24)
First Thursday Concert Series (first Thursday of each month)
MEALS AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
The Golden Circle is your one-stop shop for nutritious meals! We currently offer in-house dining Mondays for Soup & Sandwich lunch, Wednesdays for Hot Lunch, and Fridays for breakfast, every week. But have no fear the rest of the days of the week as we have a Homestyle Frozen Meals program accessible to all. Offering beef, pork, chicken, fish and omelette options, all meals are made fresh in our commercial kitchen and frozen in individual portions for your convenience. We also have Pot Pies and soups, as well. Check the website for the menu www.goldencircle.ca
Membership is not required for either in-house dining or to purchase the frozen meals, but Golden Circle members get a $2.00 discount on every in-house meal as well as many other benefits. Call 1-403-343-6074 or email [email protected] for more information on our meals and the benefits of membership!
Nourishing Seniors, Building Communities
In retirement communities, mealtimes are vital for seniors, fostering socialization and delivering essential nutrients. To ensure a wholesome diet, communities prioritize well-balanced meals with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins. Seniors, prone to health risks, must maintain good nutrition to avoid weight loss, depression, and weakened immune systems. The National Resource Center on Nutrition & Aging reports over 5.5 million seniors facing food insecurity. Retirement communities address nutritional challenges by providing chef-prepared communal meals. This approach ensures proper nutrition, fosters a social atmosphere, and creates a well-rounded dining experience for residents.
Good Nutrition & Digestion = Good Health
No matter how clean, organic, and healthy you eat, if your body isn’t able to digest, absorb, and process essential nutrients properly, you are not benefitting from your efforts.
To do this, your stomach needs to fully digest, your intestines need to completely absorb, and your liver needs to properly process the food you eat.
One of the simplest ways to correct and improve any issue you may have with the digestive process is through nutritional testing.
If a weakness is found in a specific organ, nutritional supplementation can be added to your diet to improve the digestive process and in turn, help you benefit from your wise choices.
