This summer I took several cooking classes with a friend at the Cancer Center in Kalamazoo MI. These classes are part of a nation wide project to share information about how diet can influence cancer. While a strict vegan diet (No meat, fish or dairy products) is advocated by the cancer project, there really were lessons about healthy eating for everyone in these classes.
Our Food for Life Nutrition and Cooking Classes for Cancer Prevention and Survival were taught by Jill Ovnik. The series of four classes were well attended. The audience included a broad range of age groups, people with cancer and people that support people with cancer and folks trying to prevent cancer from touching their family. The recipes provided were fun to make and tasty. A great cookbook is also available for ~$20.00 and the Cancer Prevention project web site has lots of vegan recipes listed.
Each cooking class consisted of a short video presentation reviewing medical information related to healthy diets. The video was about 20 minutes long. The cooking demonstration was about 30 minutes longand then it was time to enjoy the delicious food.
Our instructor, Jill was an effective spokeperson for the effect of diet on your health. Jill shared her background during the class and how she made the change to a vegan diet and lifestyle.
Jill's Vegan-gal website has lots of interesting information. Be sure to try Jill's Chick Pea Smash Salad recipe, it is outstanding!
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