Shavuot is known as the White Festival and is packed with calcium and the best of the best.
The Israel Heart Society recommends integrating dairy products to prevent heart diseases.
Carmel Hospital's Diet Unit recommends dairy products and explains who they are suitable for and why they are advisable.
Recommendations from Adina Ben-Aharon, chief clinical dietician at Soroka Medical Center:
If you are on medication, consult with your doctor to find out whether you may fast, and for instructions on how to conduct yourself on the fast day.
Before the fast
Lag Ba'Omer bonfires may pose a risk and cause burns of various degrees of severity. The most common types of burns are from open fire, but sometimes a burn may also arise from the chemical used to light the bonfire.
Hanukkah – the Donut and Latke Festival
How to enjoy the festival delicacies and maintain your weight
And also tips for a safe Hanukkah for kids
Every year at Hanukkah, we are surprised with a variety of new donuts fillings and toppings and for eight days we light candles, fry donuts and latkes and try to resisting temptation.
During the upcoming holiday season, we will linger over countless holiday meals abundant with fattening cuisine. The everyday principles of nutrition hold true during the holiday season as well: consume the right amount of calories, reduce fat content, and minimize the quantity of saturated fats and trans fatty acids, as well as the cholesterol, simple carbs and salt in your diet.
The following are some suggestions from Adina Ben-Aharon, chief clinical dietician at Soroka Medical Center
The free application to monitor pregnancy includes consulting specialists directly, 3D videos of the fetus, explanations about tests during the pregnancy, a personal photo album and more.
We are all busy preparing for the coming holiday - especially the festive Seder meal.
It's no secret that Passover is the most fattening holiday. All those on diets know how hard it is to maintain healthy nutritional habits and refrain from eating holiday delicacies. Especially hard to resist are mom's home-cooked dishes that whet the appetite.
We have barely recovered from matzah and are already starting to plan celebrating the country's independence. And how can one celebrate without food...
An independence day BBQ culture has developed here as an inseparable part of the recognition and respect for the country. On this day, Israelis will visit forests and parks to barbecue heaps of meat, kebabs, skewers, wings, sausages, etc. accompanied by humous and various salads in pita bread, sweet and alcoholic beverages, and dessert of cake, cookies and fruit, and to round off the meal by cracking seeds and nuts.
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Itzik Kochav, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Clalit Health Services, was awarded the Outstanding Information Security Manager Prize for 2011. This prize is awarded by the annual IT Awards Competition, the "Oscar" of the Israeli computing world and Israel's most prestigious competition in the field.
“Ligdol bari” (Growing Up Healthy), is a joint information project between Clalit and Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronot to instill healthy habits in the entire family.
The purpose of the project is to increase awareness about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and provide information and tools to adopt one. The project focuses on the health of children, integrates professional information and deals with a wide range of subjects: the damage involved in obesity, the importance of physical exercise, tools for nutritional change, reduction of screen time, healthy school sandwich suggestions, recommended menus, etc.
Schneider Children’s Medical Center of the Clalit Group summarizes 2011 as a fruitful and successful year.
The center contains 208 hospital beds as well as 50 out-patient beds. It is operated by a skilled, dedicated staff of some 1,200 doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and laboratory, administration and housekeeping employees who serve the children and their families arriving to receive medical care.
Towards Pessach, Clalit offers its members a medicine guide containing a list of kosher for Pessach medicines.
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Innovative technology developed especially for Beilinson Interventional Cardiology Institute at the initiation of Prof. Ran Kornowski, Director of the Interventional Cardiology Institute at Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson and Hasharon hospitals), which allows viewing all the medical material collected during catheterization directly on the iPad screen.
Clalit is now opening its flu vaccination winter campaign. In anticipation of the campaign, Clalit ordered 830,000 injection vaccines intended for adults and children, to be administered to Clalit patients free of charge. Clalit is also offering a significant discount on the FluMist nasal spray vaccine – recommended primarily for children.
It is now possible for new immigrants to become CLALIT customers directly upon arriving to Israel - at the Ben Gurion airport