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 11-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:

• 11 wellness classes on a variety of topics
• Food to make one dinner for four people at home each week for 11 weeks
• Garden planters to take home
• Food canning kit

The Roots of Wellness: Food as Medicine class will meet eleven times on Thursdays from August 15, 2019 through October 24, 2019. The first class will take place from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at Garfield County Fairgrounds North Hall & North Hall Kitchen at the Garfield County Fairgrounds (1001 Railroad Ave Rifle, Colorado 81650). The remaining 10 classes will meet from 6:00 to 8:00 at the same location.

You can sign up for the entire session by clicking here. **Update Wednesday August 14th, 2019: this class is full, registration has closed.**

This course is offered in partnership with Garfield County Healthy Communities Coalition, Grand River Health, Changing Lifestyles, Cooking Matters, Garfield County Public Health, Garfield County Master Gardener/CSU Extension, Garfield County Master Food Safety Advisor/CSU Extension, UpRoot Colorado, and LIFT-UP.