Health and Wellness Education

The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation is committed to creating a world without heart disease. We know that helping Americans be more active, eat better and stop smoking has the potential to prevent 80% of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer (CDC). Our goal is to provide individuals, worksites and communities with the tools, skills and knowledge they need to make the healthy choice the easy choice. Our experts are prepared to provide credible, practical and effective guidance to ensure individuals are empowered to protect their health and reduce their risk of the number one killer, heart disease. 

Wellness Seminars

Our informative, interactive presentations will motivate attendees and provide them with the information needed to live a healthy lifestyle.  They are the perfect fit for:

• Worksites
• Community groups
• Parent groups
• Any group that wants to learn more about healthy living

Presentation Topics

Your Heart and You
This comprehensive presentation explains heart disease, its risk factors and assists the audience in understanding their cholesterol numbers and key behaviors to prevent heart disease. It empowers the audience to act now for a healthier life which will later prevent heart disease. It also guides the audience to online resources for better heart health.

What’s Your Risk Picture? Know Your Numbers
Describes risk factors, and provides specific action steps to decrease your risk of heart disease. Understand what cholesterol is and how to achieve desirable values. This presentation pairs nicely with cholesterol and blood pressure screening.

Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart
Describes the key components of a heart healthy diet. Identifies several on-line tools to examine your own diet and eating patterns and offers information about how to improve them. Includes practical healthy eating strategies that can improve high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and tips to decrease your fat intake and cook with healthier fats.

Physical Activity for Heart and Health
Identifies how exercise works to counteract heart disease risk factors and how it benefits our overall physical and emotional health. The components of a balanced exercise program are discussed and strategies to overcome barriers and stay motivated are shared.

How to Master Stress Management
Identifies what stress is, how stress affects the body and how it can be effectively managed. Practical techniques are demonstrated and practiced in this presentation for “stressing down.”

Healthy Eating on a Budget
Provides practical suggestions on how to eat well while on a budget. It includes a deep explanation of the dietary guidelines, and how to plan, purchase and prepare menus that are healthy, enjoyable and fit within a budget.

Women and Heart Disease
Describes heart disease and risk factors specific to women. It also includes a description of differences men and women have with heart attack signs and symptoms. Practical strategies to prevent this number one killer of women are discussed.

Eating Well on the Run
This presentation helps individuals identify specific steps that can be taken to improve eating habits, even when busy. A fun interactive game tests and strengthens your ability to make the healthy choice when eating out.

Weigh to Win at Losing
Learn about the keys to healthy weight management and how to incorporate them into your lifestyle. Cut through the confusion and learn credible strategies to eat better, move more and manage stress for successful weight management.

Raising Healthy Eaters
Children today are bombarded with messages to consume, consume, consume. This makes a parents’ job more challenging than ever when it comes to instilling healthy eating habits. Learn about which strategies are most effective to raising healthy eaters and which ones to avoid!

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Interactive Displays

Our interactive education displays are perfect for health fairs or other drop in education opportunities. The cost is $325 for events up to 3 hours.  Events longer than 3 hours will be charged an extra $40 per hour. Additional fees may be added for materials with large groups and travel outside the Twin Cities area. Displays include:

• One health educator
• Posters, props and other visual aids
• Interactive component, which may include food samples, quiz questions or a game
• Small incentives to engage participants
• Handouts or recipes for take-home information

Choose one of the following topics:

• Know Your Numbers and Risk for Heart Disease
• Heart Healthy Eating with Fruits and Vegetables
• Eat More, Crave Less: Tricks to Cut Calories Mindlessly
• Pouring on the Fat? How to Make Better Beverage Choices

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