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Celebrity Chefs and New Classes Teach Plant-Based Diabetes Prevention
The new season of the TV show Top Chef just started and it’s packed with celebrity chefs. In the show’s challenges, chefs typically create high-fat, cholesterol-laden meals—like the ones that have contributed to America’s diabetes epidemic. But last month, PCRM presented its own challenge to |
PCRM Seeks Nominations for Dissection Alternatives Award
Each school year, educators and students who realize the value of nonanimal learning methods take great leaps to adopt educationally superior alternatives to animal dissection. In 2009, PCRM’s inaugural Cut Above Awards for Dissection Alternatives will honor an educator and a student who have implemented hum |
Diabetes Educators Learn Vegan Approach
PCRM educated health care professionals about the benefits of a plant-based approach to treating diabetes at the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting in San Antonio this August. More than 500 diabetes educators attended PCRM’s screening of Forks Over Knives, the new documentary examining |
Celebrity Chefs Teach Plant-Based Diabetes Approach
Four high-profile chefs joined PCRM in August to spread the word that a low-fat vegan diet can help fight type 2 diabetes. During PCRM’s “Celebrity Chefs Cook Vegan and So Can You” program, celebrity chefs taught diabetes educators how to inspire their patients to cook and eat more healthfully. Mor |
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Apples versus Avandia: Vegan Diets Treat Diabetes
As diabetes drugs such as Avandia are being linked to dangerous side effects, PCRM is providing evidence and education on the power of a low-fat vegan diet to treat and prevent type 2 diabetes. Last month, PCRM published diabetes studies in two major nutrition journals—and PCRM nurse practitioner Caroline Tra |
Nurses Nutrition Network
NEW Earn Continuing Education Credit: Teach the Food for Life Program in Your Community: Application Deadline Feb. 10 NEW PCRM’s AADE Foundation Plant-Based Diet Scholarship This scholarship is designed to rec |
Deaths in ACCORD Study Raise Questions About Diabetes Treatment Risks
Diabetes experts with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) are available for comment about the large government diabetes study that has been partly stopped because of 257 unexpected deaths. The study—Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD)—is run by the National He |
Information on Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
Vegetarian Starter Kit A good place to begin is the Vegetarian Starter Kit, which is also available in Spanish-language: Guía de Iniciación una Dieta Vegetariana. The Power Plate PCRM's Power Plate offers a healthy alternative to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Pyramid. The Power Pla |
PCRM 2005: The Year in Review: PCRM Presents
Part of PCRM’s mission is to get the word out about new research on nutrition—not only to the public, but also to other scientists, doctors, and nutritionists. In 2005, PCRM experts shared groundbreaking information about the benefits of vegetarian die |
Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-ADM, C.D.E.
Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-ADM, C.D.E., is director of diabetes education and care with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting preventive medicine, especially better nutrition, and higher standards in research. She is |
Teach Cancer Prevention Cooking in Your City
Want to help others learn how foods can help cancer prevention and survival? If you are an educator, health care professional, or just interested in good nutrition, The Cancer Project can help you get started. The unique method of combining nutrition educa |
educators
Educators Power Plate Poster: Easy-to-print PDF poster in 8 1/2 x 11 size Healthy School Lunch Campaign The Healthy School Lunch Campaign, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), is dedicated to improving the food served to children in schools by educating government and scho |
NBA Champion Visits Congress to Urge Child Nutrition Act Reform
Children dream big. Many want to be basketball stars or celebrity chefs or members of Congress. But the opportunity to grow up healthy shouldn’t be just a dream. That’s why NBA basketball star John Salley went to Capitol Hill last month to explain why hea |
Meet Caroline Trapp: PCRM’s New Diabetes Care Expert
Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-ADM, C.D.E., recently joined PCRM as the director of diabetes education and care. Board-certified in adult primary care, advanced diabetes management, and diabetes education, she has worked with people with diabetes for more than 20 years. Her role at PCRM is to oversee ne |
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