Wellness Around the World: Atlas Travels to Jamaica!

Join our friends at Wellness Around the World for a fun new episode! This time, Atlas is visiting Jamaica and learning all about the delicious and healthy foods kids there eat with their families. This ongoing series is created by four medical students at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Follow Atlas's adventures to learn about the healthy foods and fun activities kids across the planet enjoy, as well as what their daily lives are like!

Lung Health In The Community: Lung Cancer Screening, Smoking Cessation, New developments in COPD/Asthma & Beyond (ZOOM)

Please join us for a virtual educational program hosted by Astera Cancer Care

Discussion topics include:

1) Lung Cancer Screening - Finding the Right Candidate

2) How We Approach Abnormal CT scan - View of the Interventional Pulmonologist

CANCELLED Functional Food Series: Chocolate

~~Join Shailja Mathur, M.S., M.Ed, RDN Senior Program Coordinator from the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences to learn about this months functional food topic: Chocolate!~~

~~Join us to taste and discuss!~~

~~This event is sponsored by the Friends of the East Brunswick Library~~

World Braille Day

Are you struggling to read traditional print? Then you may qualify to borrow books from the New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC)! TBBC provides services and accessible books (audiobooks and braille) to New Jersey residents who are low vision, have reading disabilities, or cannot hold a book or turn the pages.

Health Information Table

Check out this week's Health Information table for materials about:

High blood pressure
Diabetes and living with diabetes
Eating with diabetes
how hypertension and diabetes affect each other.

Afterwards head to meeting room 3 to recieve your FREE BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING

[WALK-INS WELCOME] Diabetes Workshop & Blood Pressure Screenings

Get Pumped Up About Heart Health: Diabetes Workshop & Blood Pressure Screenings

The HEAL Team (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students) return to the library to share information about diabetes and hypertension, both of which impact blood pressure.

Following the program, there will be a physician conducting free blood pressure screenings, and students will be there to help calculate BMI and fat percentages

White Cane Safety Day

Join us in the lobby to:

Learn white cane safety tips for people who are sighted
Practice proper sighted guide
Learn about library programs for the visually impaired.
See and learn about the white cane and braille!

Health, Fitness & Wellness