Healthy Basics

Who?

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Healthy Basics is the perfect introductory plant-based nutrition and cooking programme for anyone who would like to learn how to prepare wholesome plant-based meals for maximum health benefit. The course requires no previous knowledge of vegan cooking and is suitable for beginners.

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What?

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This interactive course combines nutritional education with live cooking demonstrations so that you've got the technical know-why as well as the practical know-how when it comes to starting your new plant-based diet. 

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Each one-hour class features a discussion and cooking demonstration.  Students will learn not only the basics of how to start a plant-based diet, but also how a plant-based diet contributes to good health.  Over the course of 4 weeks, we will cover:

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Week 1: The Power of Your Plate 

Week 2: How Foods Fight Diabetes 

Week 3: Foods For a Healthy Weight

Week 4: How Foods Fight Heart Disease

Healthy Basics is part of the Food For Life programme which has been created by the Physicians Committee, a not-for-profit based in the United States which is supported by over 12,000 doctors who realise that one of the most powerful ways to promote health is through a plant-based diet.