ROOTS OF WELLNESS

Food Is Medicine

Did you know what you eat can make a huge difference in your health? Food is our most basic medicine. What we eat fuels our body and allows it to function. Food helps us maintain our health. It can help prevent disease and can also be the best medicine to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes. (Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body has high sugar levels for prolonged periods of time. This disease can be deadly if not treated or managed.) Even your emotional well-being is affected by your diet.

Join us for this free 12-week wellness program. Learn how you can achieve and maintain optimal health with nutritious foods and physical activity.

Topics to be covered include:

• Six weeks of Cooking Matters Classes
• Farmers’ market tour and instruction in using Double Up Food Bucks
• Gardening
• Food Preservation
• Mental Health
• Physical Activity
• Chronic Disease Prevention

Partners In Health

You can learn how use food as medicine and promote your own health for free! Roots of Wellness is offered at no cost by a collaboration of ten agencies in Garfield County. These generous partners have come together to offer you:

• 12 wellness classes on a variety of topics
• Food to make one dinner for four people at home each week for 12 weeks
• Garden planters to take home
• Food canning kit

The Food as Medicine class will meet twelve times on Thursdays from August 9 through October 24. The first meeting will take place from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at the Rifle Farmers Market. The remaining 11 classes will meet at the Garfield County Fairgrounds Event Hall from 6:00 to 8:00.

Please call Siouxanne Mease at 970-945-2840, email SMease@mountainfamily.org, or click here to sign up.