Food For Life: The Power of Your Plate

Adult – Want to learn more about how nutrition and our diet are involved in maintaining and restoring health? The Power of Your Plate is a cooking class that helps participants start on a journey toward healthy weight loss, healthy weight maintenance, and an overall healthful and sustainable diet. In this plant-based class, Leticia Nichols will discuss how incorporating more plants into your diet can not only lead to maintaining a healthy weight without restriction, but can help to lower cholesterol, control diabetes, lower blood pressure, and even boost energy and mood.  

Obesity now affects the majority of the U.S. population, increasing the risk of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease and taking a disproportionate toll on under-served populations. Improved lifestyle choices, especially dietary, need not be reserved for those in a particular income, social, gender, or racial demographic. Eating healthfully can be less expensive than diets fueled by seemingly inexpensive processed products, fast-food products, or nutrient-poor products. The savings can happen in the short term and certainly in the long term, measured not only by dollars but also in quality of life.  

Food for Life is a series of award-winning nutrition education and cooking class program that provides an innovative approach to diet-related chronic diseases. Designed by physicians, nurses, and registered dietitians, Food for Life promotes healthful eating based on the latest scientific research. Registration is required and will open three weeks before the event.