Bermuda Health-Abets
This is a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living. With a mission of empowering, informing and motivating Bermuda residents to live well. Our guests will be experts, community partners and residents with lived experience who focus on, work with or live with all aspects of health, including social determinants of health.
Episodes
22 episodes
Being Heart Smart: A Whole Person Approach to Health
Dear Listeners,February is Heart Month. The aim of heart month is to raise awareness, bring attention to cardiovascular disease (CVD), and promote healthy lifestyles which will hopefully lead to a reductions in the rates of cardiovascula...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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39:51
Active Minds: Engaging Activities for the Ageing Adult
Dear Listeners,Have you thought about your future and how you'd like to age? Aging gracefully with the ability to still do some of the things that I am able to do now is a lifelong goal of mine. I would like to be able to do activities a...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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30:21
Menopause: Understanding Hot Flashes and Managing the Change
Dear Listeners,Going through life cycles as we age is inevitable for all of us. For women menopause, as indicated by the WHO is a point in a continuum of life stages. For women this stage of life typically marks the end of reproductive y...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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46:49
Breastfeeding & Beyond: Celebrating Breastfeeding with a Mom’s Voice
Dear Listeners,August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. The main focus is to highlight the benefits of breastfeeding for babies and moms, promote breastfeeding friendly spaces, to promote breastfeeding when possible, and to pro...
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59:06
Food Connects Us: Farming and Food
Dear Listeners,March is National Nutrition Month. This years theme is "Food Connects Us". As we observe National Nutrition Month, spokes persons from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics across the USA encourage us to connect in severa...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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36:06
Food Connects Us: Know Your Experts
Dear Listeners,This week let's take a moment to Celebrate Registered Dietitians Nutritionists (RDNs). Every year on the second Wednesday in March we celebrate the important roles that Registered Dietitians Nutritionists play in our commu...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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24:55
Food Connects Us: Gardening as a Way Forward to Address Food Insecurity
Dear Listeners,We continue to observe National Nutrition Month and how food connects us. Food connects us to health, tradition, culture, and relationships. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics emphasize that "health, memories, traditio...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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32:45
Food Connects Us: Food and Culture
Dear Listeners,What is your earliest memory of food? What is your favorite cuisine?As we near the end of National Nutrition Month think about how food connects you to your roots, your family, your community, traditions, resolving ...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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39:32
Autism Awareness: Understanding Autism, Dispelling Myths, Resources and supports
Dear Listeners,April is National Autism Awareness Month. The aim of the observance is to raise awareness, foster environments of acceptance, advocate for resources and support for people with autism. Bermuda, this month take the time lea...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:18
Alcohol Awareness: Understanding Alcohol Misuse, Providing Resources and Support
Dear Listeners,April is Alcohol Awareness Month. This is a time to raise awareness of the impact of alcohol use on health, the impact of alcohol abuse on communities, to advocate for increased prevention education, prevention of alcohol ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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58:57
Camp Smart: Finding the Right Fit for Your Child
Dear Listeners,For many parents and guardians summer and out of school breaks mean finding camps that suit your child or children. When we think about finding quality camps we think about safety, fun, continued skill development and qua...
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1:03:53
Nutrition 101: Let’s talk about the Eat Well Plate
Dear Listeners,Many of us have learned at point in our lives that the food we eat can impact our health. Research indicate that nutrition can have a major impact on our health. In an article called "Non-communicable disease prevention, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:12:42
From Play to Progress: Understanding Early Childhood Development, their needs, helpful tips and community resources
Dear Listeners,At some point in your life I know you've heard the statement "The Children Are Our Future". I've heard people say it and I've heard it in songs. If you think about this statement it is quite literally true. Children grow t...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:00:54
Darkness to Light" with SCARS: Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention
Dear Listeners,April is Child Sexual Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month. Last week on Bermuda Health-Abets we talked about how the children are our future and this continues to resonate through this weeks episode. The protection of o...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:11
The Heart of Nursing: Stories from the Front Lines
Dear Listeners,Today I wan to echo the words of the Chief Nursing Officer in recognitions of our nurses. Please join us as we acknowledge and celebrate 12th of May as International Nurses Day in recognition of Florence Nightingale. The I...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:01:30
From First Sounds to First Words: Let’s Talk About Why Early Intervention Matters with Speech & Language Pathologists
Dear Listeners,Would you agree that speech, language and hearing are crucial to how we communicate and connect as humans? Would you also agree that it is important to create services and spaces where all members of our community are incl...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:14:45
Rerun ....... Fight the Bite: Mosquito Awareness
Dear Listeners,July is mosquito awareness month. The aim of this observance is to highlight the dangers of mosquitos borne disease like dengue, chikungunya, Zika, malaria, and yellow fever, and to promote prevention by encouraging the re...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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11:13
HIV/AIDS Awareness: From Fear to Facts - Test. Know. Act. End Transmission
Dear Listeners,We know that stigma impacts many things in our society including preventive health measures like HIV testing. Stigma is characterized as negative perception, disapproval, or judgment associated with a particular characteri...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:24
Behind the Numbers: Your Health, Your Data a Focus on the STEPS to a Well Bermuda Survey
Dear Listeners,Have you ever wondered how public health and chronic disease NGOs health organizations develop programs to help the community? Many times this is done using population health surveys. The World Health Organization emphasiz...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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45:14
Heartbeats & Help: Saving Lives with the Bermuda Red Cross
Dear Listeners,Every year June 1st -7th National CRP (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and AED (Automated External Defibrillator) Awareness Week is observed. The aim of this observance is to highlight how CPR saves lives and the importance...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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33:57
Lung Cancer Unmasked: Expert Talk with Bermuda Cancer and Health
Dear Listeners,Let's talk about lung cancer! Cancer is a topic that we hear more and more about in our community from, awareness to prevention or knowing someone who has fought it, or survived it. Many of us come together and join te...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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47:16
Let's Talk Sickle Cell Disease: A Real-Life Perspective
Dear Listeners,June 19th is World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America emphasizes that the goal of this annual observance is to raise awareness, and "to increase public knowledge and understanding of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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38:38