Food for Life: Nutrition Essentials

This is a one session free class that will review how to jump start your goal of losing and maintaining healthy long-term weight loss. Many programs can assist you with losing weight but how do you maintain the loss? 

In this course: Mark Cerkvenik and Sharmila Veda - PCRM licensed Food For Life Instructors and board members of PBNM will co-facilitate this session and will be joined by 2 additional additional PBNM board members - Karen Bender and Joan Davis who as a group have over 20 years experience thriving on a whole-food plant-based diet. 

By the end of the event, you will be able to: 

1. Describe a diet that is associated with the healthiest weight. 
2. Explain how dietary fiber tricks the brain, improving satiety. 
3. List foods that are high in dietary fiber. 
4. State the calories in one gram of carbohydrate compared to one gram of fat.
5. List high-fat plant-based foods to avoid.
6. Describe healthy low-fat cooking methods.
7. Explain how a low-fat, plant-based eating pattern increases the after meal “calorie burn”.

Attendees will receive, recipes, tips on achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and valuable supportive resources they can access free of charge from the comfort of their own home!

Class is virtual and will be held on February 20, 2022 from 1pm-2:30pm Central Time