We welcome back Chef Robyn Webb and kick off the year with an exciting new class offering.

Have more fun and exert so much less effort while cooking!

Cooking can be so much more pleasurable when you really know the secrets of success. Whether you’re brand new to cooking or have been cooking for a lifetime, you will enjoy learning all about the essential knife skills needed to create healthy simple everyday foods. We’ll then put those skills to good use while creating a variety of dishes.

Balsamic Chicken with Grape Tomato Relish
Shrimp Mango Salad
Italian Vegetable Bean Soup

Please join us.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012: 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Hands-On Cooking Classes Limited to 8 Participants
Pre-Registration and Payment is Required

Registration Fee: $75 per class

Due to Limited Class Size, Registrations are Non-Refundable

Take advantage of this opportunity to work with a caring and non-judgmental fitness professional in a safe setting!

Whatever your current fitness level – from couch potato to high level exercise enthusiast – Jennifer is available to help you:

? Work with motivation
? Modify your psychological and/or physical barriers
? Establish an initial fitness program
? Set goals based on your interests and capabilities
? Develop consistency in your fitness plan
? Give you new ideas to maintain interest and enthusiasm

She will be here every Friday morning from 8:30 – 11:30 am for individual appointments.

Your comprehensive plan includes 2 free sessions with Jennifer in addition to your regular health provider appointment.

After these 2 sessions, an appointment with Jennifer can be substituted as part of your rotation with your other providers (physician, dietitian, therapist).

We offer this new service to our Program because of the central role movement, activity and fitness play in your ability to maintain your weight loss, as well as physical functioning and improve psychological wellbeing.

The flowing equipment will be utilized in the class and available for purchase if desired:

Thera-bands = $5
Thera-band Loop = $7
Door Anchors = $8

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Time: 10:00AM (Part of the 9AM Group)
Location: Conference Room*
*Next to the front lobby – 1st Floor

Please sign up at the front desk with Melina Luizaga,
or call the WCWMR office: (703)-807-0037 by Friday June 24, 2011

Special guest speakers:
Shaya Myers PT, DPT and Leslie Fazio PT, DPT from the NRH Regional Rehab therapy center in Ballston will be discussing and instructing basic core stabilization exercises, including pelvic floor exercises as well as indications for physical therapy.

WILL ADAPT TO ANY PHYSICAL LIMITATION

Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 10:00 am – as part of the Mind/Body Group Class

Spring is in the Air! Get cooking with fresh vegetables and learn all the techniques to make them super delicious. You’ll learn how to select, store and cook a variety of spring vegetables.

Wed, April 6: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Registration Fee: $75

Due to Limited Class Size, Registrations are Non-Refundable

Evan Haning wtop.com
WASHINGTON – Obesity may be a major health threat with few effective treatments, but new weight loss drugs failed to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration this month.

In December, Orexigen Therapeutics announced that in the first round of clinical trials, their new weight loss medication Contrave exceeded FDA requirements An FDA advisory panel also recommended approval (pdf). But as the Wall Street Journal notes, the FDA has been reluctant to approve any weight loss drugs, in recent months.

“I think the main concern was a potential increase for cardiac risk,” says Dr. Domenica Rubino, director of the Washington Center for Weight Management and Research.

Among patients whose blood pressure was monitored for 24 hours, there was no difference between those taking the drug and those given the placebo, says Rubino, who participated in clinical trials.

“We must also take into account the cardiac risk and blood pressure risk – and risk of diabetes and wear and tear on joints – that overweight people have.”

“Fifteen years of research has proved that weight loss is not a matter of will power,” Rubino says.

Our bodies are wired to hold on to the weight they have, even when it’s unhealthy.

“The body doesn’t say, ‘Oh, I’ve got diabetes now and I’ve got high blood pressure so I’d better let a little weight off.’ At each new weight gain, it hunkers down and tries to keep that weight gain.”

Popular culture keeps unhealthy myths about weight alive, Rubino says, taking a swipe at TV reality shows.

“I actually know a colleague who works for [one] show as an advisor, and I saw him at a meeting and I said, ‘What are you talking about? Nobody loses 16 pounds in one week, that’s crazy!’ And he smiled and said, ‘Well, that’s a TV week.’”

Rubino does expect eventual approval of safe weight loss medications, especially as more Americans become obese.

But until then, many people will continue to rely on dangerous mail order drugs and quackery, “some arbitrary clinic out there that just passes out buckets of pills, stuff that’s completely unregulated, hormone shots that don’t do anything. We’re in 2011. Why do we have to accept charlatan-based medicine?”

(Copyright 2011 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)

If you are interested, please go to our website – www.wtmgmt.com and click on Patient Forms, then complete the Research Screening Form and fax it to us at 703.807.0038.

Award winning nutritionist, cookbook author and teacher, Robyn Webb has been a passionate advocate of cooking well and making it enjoyable for most of her life. In collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, Robyn Webb has published numerous cookbooks that teach people how to maintain healthful
diets with food that is satisfying and flavorful.

Hands-On Cooking Classes Limited to 8 Participants
6:30 pm—9:00 pm

Wed, Feb 9: Easy Weeknight Meals
Learn the art of preparing enough food for the week. You’ll learn how to parlay one dish into a fresh idea for another! Meal planning was never so easy or this much fun!

Wed, April 6: Spring is in the Air!
Get cooking with fresh vegetables and learn all the techniques to make them super delicious. You’ll learn how to select, store and cook a variety of spring vegetables

Wed, May 4: Healthy Vegetarian
Reducing meat from your diet is always a wise idea, but how do you make your meals tasty? In this class you will learn the ins and outs on how to use grains, beans, vegetables and more to create simple fabulous meat free meals

Wed, June 1: Main Dish Salads
Everyone loves a cool refreshing salad, but making them at home can be a challenge. Learn the fine art of crafting main dish salads that are so good you might want to include them year round!

Registration Fee: $75 per class
Due to Limited Class Size, Registrations are Non-Refundable