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Heartline Magazine April - June 2006
Heart Smart Fitness Challenge
Wayne Riley and Suzette Neblett are two people who are not happy about their
physical condition and have decided to do something about it.
They know that being overweight affects not only their fitness level and
self-esteem, but can also lead to heart disease or stroke.
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Their want to lose weight, and are doing so through the Cardiac Disease
Prevention and Rehabilitation (CDP&R) programme at the Heart & Stroke
Foundation of Barbados (HSFB).
Under the guidance of the manager of the CDP&R unit, Kim Clarke-Grant and
her staff of trained nurses, Mr. Riley and Ms. Neblett are undergoing a
two-month programme of exercise and counseling, which began in early May and
will go through to the end of June.
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Nutritionist Emily Rose, left, discusses
healthy eating practices with fitness challenge participants, Suzette
Neblett & Wayne Riley
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The Heart Smart Fitness Challenge is being sponsored by DaCosta Mannings
Inc. as part of its assistance package to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of
Barbados, and includes stress testing and monitored exercise in the CDP&R
gym with a difference. There will be in-house lectures on such topics as
heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stress, medication, cardiac
procedures and the benefits of exercise. In addition, there will be weekly
weight measuring of the participants.
Lectures on diet and healthy eating practices will be given by Beverley
Stanford, a nutritionist at the National Nutrition centre of the Ministry of
Health and Emily Rose, nutritionist at Super Centre Ltd.
Terrance Mahon, Managing Director of DaCosta Mannings Inc. said that his
company was delighted to be partnering with the Heart & Stroke Foundation of
Barbados in this exercise. He said, “As a public spirited company we
recognize the importance of good health and fitness to the continued
development of our Nation and to the well-being of its citizens. We are also
very much aware of the excellent work that the Foundation is doing in the
area of health care in Barbados and the Region, and are more than happy to
offer our assistance to the cause, particularly in their CDP&R and Emergency
Cardiac Care programmes.”
Mr. Mahon, who recently joined the Board of Directors of the Heart & Stroke
Foundation of Barbados, noted that DaCosta Mannings Inc. had also donated
three exercise bikes to be used in the CDP&R gym.
He said that efforts will be made to have DaCosta Mannings staff trained in
CPR, as, he felt, companies across Barbados should do.
Mrs. Clarke-Grant said that at the end of the Challenge it is expected that
there will be a tangible award for Mr. Riley and Ms. Neblett. “But the
biggest reward,” she said, “will be the joy of being fit and healthy.”
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