Heartbeats Takapuna Meeting Leading Dietitian Guest Speaker
Heartbeats is a community-based, peer-to-peer support group for heart event survivors, their family and broader whanau.
Our membership is culturally diverse, and includes equal numbers of men and women, with an age range of 50 - 90 years.
We are a non-profit organization that aims to connect heart patients in the community and educate the broader public on heart disease and heart health management.
Our guest speaker this week is Anna Sloan, Registered Dietitian, who will be presenting, discussing and taking questions on heart healthy diets, dietary issues when taking heart medications, and critical dietary elements for sustainable heart health.
Where: Mary Thomas Centre, 3 Gibbons Rd (behind Takapuna Libary)
When: Tomorrow THURSDAY, 6th May
Time: 10:00am
It free, so come along, bring a friend, and get some useful information on heart healthy diets and diet management plans for people with cardiovascular disease and heart issues.
For information: call Trent at 0220 606 199
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Gift-giving looks a lot different these days when you can pick up super-cheap goods made overseas. But do they last?
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Christmas Carols- A brief history
Hello,
As we head into Christmas and the long holidays, the unmistakable carol music of Christmas will be heard. From shopping malls to radio stations to homes where tree decorating missions are underway not to mention seeds of an argument that reaches it zenith on Christmas Day!
But where did it all originate ( not the argument!), the carols?
Here at the Flea FM, each week we will post a few short snippets* we have curated so that you can appreciate when you hear a carol, a little history about the simple Christmas carol. Enjoy.
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In medieval times, the word ‘carol’ referred to a round dance with musical accompaniment (‘carole’ in French). It later developed into a song form of verses and a refrain. Not all the original texts had Christmassy words but many were associated with Mary, Advent and Christmas. The term has since come to be applied to all Christmas songs, whether or not in carol form.
Christmas Carols were introduced to formal church services by St. Francis of Assisi.
‘One of the oldest printed English Christmas carols is the Boar's Head Carol, sung as the traditional dish is carried in on Christmas Day at Queen's College, Oxford; it was printed in 1521.’ (Oxford Dictionary of Music)
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