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 8-week wellness program. Learn how you can achieve and maintain optimal health with nutritious foods and physical activity.

Topics to be covered include:

1. Basics of Gardening. How to put a garden to bed for the winter so it is ready for spring along with some fall container planting of Garlic and onions, drying (preserving) herbs.
2. Cooking Matters Classes:
   1. Learn to modify recipes and make a balanced meal and save money while grocery shopping.
   2. Hack your snack: Reading food labels and preparing healthy snacks
   3. Healthy starts at home: How meal planning can keep you on track, and learning to look for sugar in beverages
3. Chronic Disease Prevention/Management: 80% of all Chronic diseases that make us sick or even kill us are preventable. We will discuss prevention, treatment, and reversal of diseases through simple lifestyle changes and diet modification.
4. Yoga for all. It is so much more than physical movement. It is a great way to support physical and mental wellbeing. Yoga can be practiced almost anywhere by anyone. This class is suitable for all levels and abilities.
5. Behavior Modification: Mindfulness through gardening, watering of seeds of good positivity rather than negativity. Gardening as a coping mechanism, caring for others, caring for self.