By Cristen Bates
Being healthy is something that is important to many Americans, but do we really know what it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
This is just what the CBS Health and Beauty Expo aimed to do. On March 24 and 25, more than 25 businesses set up shop in the Boulevard Mall. In attendance were representatives from local day spas, nutrition clinics, dentist offices and even chiropractors to educate on staying healthy.
The mall was crowed and slow moving and the spa tables seemed to have bigger crowds than the others.
Katherine Andersen, 53, was just making a regular shopping trip to the mall and was surprised to see something going on.
A big poster board seemed to grab everyone’s attention at the Active Nutrition table. By lifting a flap, people could find out which foods had more sugar, fat or sodium. People were surprised to see they were wrong when it came to simple nutrition questions. This company is designed to educate people on how to change their eating habits for the better.
Active Nutrition offers a program called Choose to Lose that teaches things like:
- How to read food labels
- How to modify recipes
- Determining your “fat budget”
- Why aerobic exercise is essential to weight loss
“The focus isn’t so much on weight loss, but you end up losing weight when you’re eating healthy,” said Maria Weber, a registered dietician.
“At the end of the eight weeks, you end up with new habits rather than a diet,” she said.
The new IonCleanse at the West Seneca Chiropractic and Wellness Center also seemed to attract onlookers. Millions of positive and negative ions actually work together to pull acid wastes out of the body, said Dr. Phillip Jones. It’s as easy as putting your feet in the water and in seconds the ions enter the body and go to work.
“Depending on the color of the water you can tell what part of the body the toxins came from,” Jones said.
Besides just health information there were more than five spas and hair removal centers. The Belaya Anti-Aging and Aesthetic Center was passing out information on mesotherapy and lipotherapy procedures. Both are non-surgical methods of treating cellulite, fat reduction, or injecting vitamins.
People attending the expo last month seemed to be pleased with the events and got interested in learning new things.
Dietra Adams, 37, said she knew the expo was going on but thought it was going to be a little attraction at the end of the mall.
“I had to come to the mall anyways today, but I love that there’s so much set up to get information from,” said Adams. “I have two kids and by coming here I got some good information helpful to all parents.”
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