Start your year off on the right foot, by establishing a healthier relationship with food. In this Wellness Talk episode, we talk with Jessie Furman, RDN, about intuitive eating, dieting and red flags within nutritional trends.

Furman is a registered dietitian and assistant director for nutrition at UF’s Department of Recreational Sports.

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In this Wellness Talk episode, we talk with UF Innovation Academy Adjunct Lecturer Taylor Williams — who is also the lead facilitator and creative director of Guts and Glory Gainesville — about grief and coping with loss. As part of the discussion, we aim to normalize grief and share some valuable information and resources. 

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In this Wellness Talk episode, we discuss prediabetes prevention with Arch Mainous, Ph.D., professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine.

Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and may be underreported as many people do not know they have it. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented, and even reversed, through lifestyle changes including diet and exercise. Prediabetes is a diagnosed condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not quite high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. According to the CDC, prediabetes affects approximately one in three American adults, but 84% don’t know that they have it?

In this Wellness Talk episode, we discuss the concept of Health Literacy with Maggie Ansell, nursing and consumer health liaison librarian at the UF Health Science Center Libraries. Through our discussion, we learn about health literacy and identify ways we can improve our literacy and take control of our health. Find out about the 5 W's that can be used to evaluate health information you come across online. 

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David Fields, Executive Director of the UF Health Florida Recovery Center, talks with UFHR Wellness about the importance of National Recovery Month. In our discussion, we discuss the principles of recovery and how everyone can relate even if they don’t struggle with addiction.

For more information about the UF Health Florida Recovery Center call 352-265-4372 or https://floridarecoverycenter.ufhealth.org/.

In this Wellness Talk episode, UFHR Communication and Worklife Director Angie Brown guides us through an introduction to mindful living.

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice.