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August 23, 2018

Episode 25: Caribbean Wellness Day and Week

Wednesday 22nd August, 2018

Welcome back to our podcast.  Today we’ll be discussing Caribbean Wellness Day (8th Sept) and Caribbean Wellness Week (7th – 14th Sept

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August 22, 2018

St Kitts National Sneaker Day

St Kitts National Sneaker Day

It’s National Sneak Day in St Kitts. No matter what you’re doing today – business meeting, conference, teaching, on the shop floor – put on your sneakers and make a commitment to be nice and active today. Walk as much as you can – walk to work, take a walk at lunchtime, wherever you go today, walk!

And share the fun too. Take a picture of your sneakers and share it with us on social media using the hashtag #SKNOnTheMove.

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August 22, 2018

St Kitts Caribbean Wellness Day Walk

St Kitts Caribbean Wellness Day Walk

Caribbean Wellness Day is recognised annually on the second Saturday in September and it is kicks off a week of events – Caribbean Wellness Week.

Caribbean Wellness Day  started in 2008  following the CARICOM Summit on Chronic Diseases in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in September 2007. This annual event was established to:

  • increase the awareness of the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden in the Caribbean
  • mobilise and strengthen public, private, and civil society partnerships for NCDs;
  • promote multi country, multisectoral activities in support of wellness; and
  • showcase national and community level activities to promote healthy living and encourage residents to develop good health practices.

We’re delighted to have attended the St Kitts Caribbean Wellness Week’s planning meetings organised by the Ministry of Health  and are delighted invite you to the St Kitts Caribbean Wellness Walk on Saturday 8th September at 5AM (!).

The meeting point is at the Caribbean Cinemas and we’ll be walking to the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and back.

Registration is just $10EC for children who are 12 and under, and $20EC for attendees who are 13 or older.  We delighted to say we have a special corporate registration package of $15EC per person for every 10 people registered from the same organisation.

Join us for an invigorating, fun walk to start your day on a healthy note. We hope to see you there!

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BlogEventsFibroids Blog Posts
July 30, 2018

Registration is Open: Fibroids Self-Care Webinar Series

Registration is Open: Fibroids Self-Care Webinar Series

We are delighted to let you know that registration for our Fibroids Self-Care Webinar Series is now open! Our series starts on Saturday 27th October at 11am AST/4pm GMT with a session led by Le’Nise Brothers, a Registered Nutritional Therapist and the Founder of Eat Love Move.

Le’Nise will deliver a webinar on Fibroids, Diet and Hormones giving attendees the opportunity to learn about the role that hormones play in the development of fibroids and how simple changes to your diet may improve symptoms.

Discounted Early Bird Tickets Are Now Available

Early bird tickets for this webinar are now available and are just $10 (about £8) and you can book your tickets on Eventbrite 

We Have A Special Giveaway Just For You

We’re pleased to let you know that the first 10 people who register for this webinar will be entered into a giveaway and one lucky person will win a copy of the book ‘Flow Fighters – How I Kicked My Fibroids and Heavy Periods to the Curb’ by Holly Bridges.

We’re also delighted to have formed a partnership with OH Services who will be launching their ‘Emotional Impact of Fibroids’ online course in November 2018.  The first 10 people to register for our webinar on 27th October 2018 can claim a £5 discount on the cost of the OH Services course.

Other Webinars in this Series

Other webinars in the series will include:

Session 2: Deciding on the Best Treatment For You, Apryll Chase, Consultant Gynaecologist, 5th December 2018

Session 3: The Importance of Exercise, Relaxation and Me-Time, Candice Bryan, Founder and CEO, Noire Wellness, 23rd February 2019

Session 4: Hair and Body Care for Women With Fibroids, Rachael and Jocelyn, Founders of Afrocenchix, April 2019 (To be confirmed)

Session 5: Dealing with the Emotional Impact of Fibroids, Olivia Haltman, Founder, OH Services, June 2019

Session 6: Our Fibroids Stories – A Time to Share, August 2019

More Information 

We hope that you’ll join us on 27th October for this really interesting online event and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at events@lakehealthandwellbeing.com or visit our Eventbrite page

Be Prepared. Period.

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BlogFibroids Twitter Chats
July 27, 2018

Highlights From Our #FibroidsChat With Jenny Rosenberg, the Executive Director of CARE About Fibroids

Highlights From Our #FibroidsChat With Jenny Rosenberg, the Executive Director of CARE About Fibroids

Our July 2018  #FibroidsChat was with Jenny Rosenberg, the Executive Director of CARE About Fibroids.

CARE About Fibroids is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit whose mission is to elevate uterine fibroids as a women’s health issue and drive change. Bringing together many of the nation’s most respected women’s health advocacy and policy-focused organizations to advance solutions, CARE About Fibroids is a catalyst for increased awareness, research and education about uterine fibroids, leading to earlier diagnosis and improved treatment.

If you missed this Twitter chat you can read through the highlights of our conversation below and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section at the bottom of this page or send us an email, we’d love to hear from you. Additionally, you can read the highlights of our previous #FibroidsChats here

— Lake Health and Wellbeing (@lakehealthwell) July 25, 2018

Are you interested in this topic? Then please do sign up to our fibroids mailing list here

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BlogGardening
July 20, 2018

Improving Our Health and Wellbeing Through Gardening: Fruit Trees – Sour Orange and Mango

Improving Our Health and Wellbeing Through Gardening: Fruit Trees – Sour Orange and Mango

Our gardening and health series is back and Abi Begho, in this two-part blog, focuses on fruit trees. In this article she discusses her sour orange and mango trees.

I have really been enjoying my gardening journey, it has been fulfilling and rewarding in so many ways. I’ve grown enough okras and tomatoes to keep us going for months, overcome the challenges of growing peppers and delved into the world of sweet potatoes. This has given me a new-found love of the outdoors and provided an outlet to relieve stress, unwind and relax. I can’t begin to express the significant impact that just five minutes in the garden has on improving my mood and lifting the heaviness of a bad day. It’s been fabulous.

In my previous blogs I have covered vegetables and fruits that I have grown from seeds or cuttings, but in today’s blog  I want to focus on the lovely fruit trees that we inherited from the previous owners of our house.

We moved to St Kitts about ten months ago and when we moved into our new house we were just so happy about the fruit trees that came with it, and we have thoroughly enjoyed exploring each one of them, and they are:

  • Sour orange
  • Mango
  • Soursop
  • Guava

Today I am going to focus on our sour orange and mango trees.

Sour Orange

A sour orange from our tree

You may know sour orange by another name,  such as bitter orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange or marmalade orange.

It originated in south-east Asia and was believed to have been taken to Arabia in the 9th century and then made its way to many countries in the years to follow. An interesting fact about its journey around the world is: it was the first orange to arrive in the Americas.

Sour oranges, to me, taste like a cross between an orange and a lime. They are too sour to eat on their own but that hasn’t stopped them from being used in many recipes – its juice and peel are the key ingredients in marmalade, its oil is used as flavouring, its fruit is used in the preparation of liqueur and the dried peel is oftentimes used as a seasoning. And, just about every part of the plant itself  (the flower, leaf, fruit, juice and peel) has been used for medicinal purposes  but caution is needed as bitter orange supplements have been found to be “possibly unsafe”, especially if taken in combination with caffeine which can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, fainting etc.

Our Sour Orange Experience

Sour Orange: From Garden to Glass 🙂

When we arrived, our sour orange tree was laden with fruit and continued to produce fruit for a couple of months and then stopped for several months and now, about 8 months later, copious amounts of fruit are starting to appear again.

For us, we have kept it very simple with our sour oranges and have used them to make a refreshing juice, very similar to lemonade but with more of an orangy-lime flavour (delicious!). The trick to making the juice is getting your proportions of sour orange juice, water and sugar just right. After several tries, I think I mastered it. I found that the juice from two medium sour oranges mixed with 1L of water and sweetened with 1-2 tablespoons of sugar makes the perfect drink, we couldn’t get enough of it and were so sad when we had used up all our fruit. We can’t wait to make some more juice when the current batch of oranges ripen.

Mango

Mango overload!

When we first saw the mango tree in our garden it looked like it was on its last legs – the leaves were brown and dropping, in what seemed like large numbers. We kept looking at the tree and thinking: ‘is it going to survive?’, but then a few months later there was a re-birth. We noticed new leaves, and the tree started to look really healthy. Then, in March, we were so excited when we noticed lots of little flowers and it was at that point that we knew we were going to be inundated with mangoes. And, sure enough, a few months later, in May, our tree was absolutely covered with young mangoes (yay!) and in June we had so many mangoes we honestly didn’t know what to do with them. We started giving bags of them away and we’ve also frozen bags, and bags, of mangoes, and still they keep coming, so we’re probably going to run out of space in our freezer soon.

Making a strawberry, mango and banana smoothie

So far, apart from eating the mangoes as is, we’ve made a lot of smoothies. We’ve tried the simple, so almond milk, banana and mango (nice), then moved on to adding pineapple (very nice) and then added some spinach (not as nice). We then tried mango, strawberry, banana and almond milk and that was delicious, the best so far.

I continued experimenting with recipes and made a  mango tart/pie (same concept as a French lemon tart, but I used almond milk to make it a bit healthier) and it was absolutely delicious. All I can say is thank God for the internet, I pretty much combined three recipes to get what I had pictured in my mind (I wanted a mango pie with a key-lime pie/lemon tart consistency) and it turned out much better than I expected. I highly recommend it.

Next I would like to make dried mangoes because I have liked buying them in the past as a quick and easy snack.  I’m also contemplating making mango ice-cream as I found a very straightforward recipe online. I will let you know how it all goes!

At the moment I have to admit that I am getting a bit tired of mangoes – we have waaay too many and as I type I have about 10 more that dropped overnight that I need to get from the garden. This is truely mango overload!

Freshly baked mango tarts

Mangoes are very well-known so I won’t say much more about them except that I have discovered so many creative, simple recipes that we wouldn’t have come across had we not had an abundance of mangoes to experiment with.  So,  if you’re looking for something tasty, healthy and tropical then mangoes are a great option as they are very versatile.

Next Time

Our fruit trees have really been a blessing and we’re enjoying experimenting with various recipes. It has been fun. In my next blog I’ll tell you about the final two trees, our soursop and guava trees.

See you next time and happy gardening!

Previous Blogs

If you missed the previous blogs in this series you can read through them here:

  1. Improving Our Health and Wellbeing Through Gardening: An Introduction
  2. How I Got Started
  3. Growing Tomatoes
  4. Growing Okra
  5. Growing Peppers

You Can Get In Touch

Are you a gardener? Are you new to gardening or an experienced gardener? We’d love to hear your story and experiences with gardening and how its impacted your health and wellbeing.  You can email us at info@lakehealthandwellbeing.com with your experience and we’ll include it in this blog series.

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June 27, 2018

Episode 20: How We Stay Healthy

Wednesday 27th June, 2018

Our volunteers are back with another episode in their childhood obesity series. Today, is a quick podcast with Marecia, Eurecia, Jorecia, Chris and Vikell sharing how they stay healthy. In this episode they provide some great insight on easy ways to adopt a healthy lifestyle. They’re on a mission to make the Caribbean a healthy place.

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By Lake Health and Wellbeing
June 22, 2018

Fibroids Chat with Jenny Rosenberg

Fibroids Chat with Jenny Rosenberg

Our July Fibroids Twitter Chat will be with Jenny Rosenberg on 25th July 2018 at 2pm EST (that’s 7pm GMT, or 2pm AST).

Jenny Rosenberg is the Executive Director of CARE About Fibroids and is an internationally recognized leader in health care policy and strategic communications. Mrs. Rosenberg served for more than a decade in senior-level policy and communications positions in the Obama Administration and Congress.

Previously, Mrs. Rosenberg was Director of Communications to former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin and former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard Koh. ​Her broad experience as a regulator, policymaker and communications expert brings a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to enhancing public awareness over critical public health issues.

CARE About Fibroids is a Washington, DC-based non-profit whose mission is to elevate uterine fibroids as a women’s health issue and drive change. Bringing together many of the nation’s most respected women’s health advocacy and policy-focused organizations to advance solutions, CARE About Fibroids is a catalyst for increased awareness, research and education about uterine fibroids, leading to earlier diagnosis and improved treatment.

Join our #FibroidsChat to find out more about the great work that CARE About Fibrioids is conducting. To take part in the conversation find us on Twitter on 25th July at  2pm (US EST and 7pmGMT ) and use the hashtag #FibroidsChat.

You can find out more about CARE About Fibroids here: www.careaboutfibroids.org and you can follow CARE About Fibroids on social media:

Twitter: @CAREAbtFibroids

Facebook: @CareAboutFibroids

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BlogEvents
May 25, 2018

St Kitts Marriott Wellness Lunch

St Kitts Marriott Wellness Lunch

On 23rd May, we attended the St Kitts Marriott Wellness Lunch. This was a lovely event, organised by the hotel for its staff, that aimed to promote healthy eating.

We were invited to have an information table to raise awareness of the work that we’re doing, and it really was a pleasure being at this event. We received a very warm welcome from everyone and had a steady stream of visitors to our information table who were genuinely interested in learning more about our projects and campaigns.

A member of staff signing the HCC’s childhood obesity prevention petition

We had some great conversations about a number of health issues and got the opportunity to talk to attendees about the Healthy Caribbean Coalition’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Campaign. This was very well-received with many showing their support by signing the childhood obesity prevention petition which will be presented to Caribbean leaders at the CARICOM heads of governments conference in July. You can find out more about this campaign and sign the e-petition here

We were able to speak to women about our fibroids survey which aims to understand the experiences of women with fibroids so that we can determine if there is a need to develop an awareness and support programme here in St Kitts. From our conversations, we learnt that  many women have been affected by fibroids and we hope that we can, in the future, provide some form of help to those who need it.

Additionally, it was  nice meeting representatives from other organisations such as MASA Assist, Nagico, the National bank and credit union, all doing great work in some form or the other to support the wellbing of the public.

The lunch also gave us the opportunity to showcase our new ‘Be Healthy’ badges which we recently released to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Our badges as well as our key rings, t-shirts, tote bag and mug are available on our new online shop. Please do visit our shop to find out more about these products. You can visit our shop here.

This was a fun event, in the beautiful ball room of the Marriott with some lovely healthy food and great conversation – the perfect way to spend an afternoon! We’d like to say a big thank you to the organisers for inviting us to take part and to everyone who visited our table, we really appreciate all the support and kind words, and we look forward to attending future events at the Marriott.

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November 20, 2017

Fibroids Wellness Retreat Survey

Fibroids Wellness Retreat Survey

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation has declared 2018 as the Year of Wellness and Rejuvenation in the Caribbean. With this in mind The Lake Foundation in collaboration with Noire Wellness are exploring organising a fibroids wellness retreat and we would be grateful if you could complete the following survey.

This survey will help us understand if there is a need and interest in this type of event.  We want to determine whether this type of event would be a useful form of support for women affected by fibroids.

Any and all feedback is welcome and we would be very grateful if you could share this survey with anybody that you think would have an interest in this event.

Create your own user feedback survey

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