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1d ago
Food for Life Classes Reach Record 17,263 Participants Worldwide in 2023 Jeff Surak Mon, 03/25/2024 - 15:32
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The We Are Food for Life: 2023 Community Impact Report highlights the exponential growth of the Physicians Committee’s Food for Life plant-based nutrition and cooking class program.
Last year, 403 instructors in 23 countries taught 1,686 classes about the lifesaving power of a plant-based diet to 17,263 participants, which was a 36% increase in participants from 2022. The program also had a 26% increase in reach to peop ..read more
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2w ago
Faith, Food, and Health Plant-Based Cooking Classes Launch This Spring Jeff Surak Tue, 03/12/2024 - 13:27
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The Food for Life: Faith, Food, and Health plant-based nutrition and cooking classes, designed to promote wellness in faith communities, are celebrating the interfaith holiday season.
New series and classes will be added throughout the spring to provide faith communities with nutrition education and practical cooking tips and recipes to help prevent or overcome heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cer ..read more
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1M ago
Celebrating Black History Month With Plant-Based Recipes From Food for Life Instructors Jeff Surak Fri, 02/23/2024 - 16:53
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During our celebration of Black History Month, we’ve been sharing our recipes created by Physicians Committee Food for Life instructors! Learn more about the instructors and find their recipes below!
Vegan Cornbread Best Dressing by Charles Smith
This recipe is inspired by Charles’ mother’s recipe. Charles says that his mom cooked many rich, delicious foods, and cornbread dressing was always at the top of that list ..read more
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2M ago
Celebrate Black History Month With Food for Life Plant-Based Cooking Classes Jeff Surak Wed, 01/24/2024 - 10:13
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The Food for Life plant-based nutrition and cooking class series will honor Black History Month in February with classes that celebrate Black culinary traditions, as well as classes that help fight diet-related health conditions that disproportionately impact Black Americans.
Food for Life classes being offered during Black History Month include the African American Culinary Heritage class series, which honors the ancestral ..read more
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4M ago
Celebrate the Season With Festive Plant-Based Recipes Jeff Surak Thu, 12/07/2023 - 12:48
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Celebrate the season with Colorful Potato Pancakes, No-Bake Fruit and Oat Balls, and other healthful vegan recipes that Physicians Committee Food for Life instructors share at their own holiday gatherings.
No-Bake Fruit and Oat Balls
From Mary Montequin
This recipe is very forgiving and accepting of any dried fruits your family enjoys. It is great for little hands to create, because there is no baking involved. Once an adult has mixed the ingredi ..read more
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4M ago
55 New Food for Life Plant-Based Nutrition Instructors From Across the Globe Jeff Surak Fri, 11/17/2023 - 15:17
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Fifty-five new instructors, including five physicians — one of whom is a bariatric surgeon — six nurses, and five professional chefs have just joined the Physician Committee’s Food for Life plant-based nutrition education and cooking class program.
The new instructors, with a dozen languages spoken among them, just completed eight intensive weeks of training and will soon start teaching classes in their comm ..read more
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4M ago
54 New Food for Life Plant-Based Nutrition Instructors From Across the Globe Jeff Surak Fri, 11/17/2023 - 15:17
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Fifty-four new instructors, including five physicians — one of whom is a bariatric surgeon — six nurses, and five professional chefs have just joined the Physician Committee’s Food for Life plant-based nutrition education and cooking class program.
The new instructors, with a dozen languages spoken among them, just completed eight intensive weeks of training and will soon start teaching classes in their comm ..read more
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5M ago
Students Need Plant-Based School Lunches, Not Lunchables Jeff Surak Mon, 10/23/2023 - 10:26
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Stephanie McBurnett, RDN
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Turkey and Cheddar Cracker Stacker and Extra Cheesy Pizza. These sound like items on the menu at a greasy spoon. Instead, these unhealthy meals—in the form of Lunchables—are now available to the 100,000 school cafeterias participating in the National School Lunch Program. As a mom and dietitian, I’m worried this puts the health of our nation’s children at risk.
But sadly, these Lunchables have been formulated ..read more
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5M ago
Dairy Industry, USDA Partner With Fast-Food Pizza Chains to Push 12 Million Pounds of Disease-Causing Cheese Jeff Surak Tue, 10/17/2023 - 08:50
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The dairy industry announced this month that it is working with U.S. Department of Agriculture to push 12 million pounds of disease-causing cheese through partnerships with the fast-food restaurant Domino’s in the United States and a pizza chain abroad.
In the United States, the dairy checkoff program, which is run by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), recently worked with Domino’s to add Pepperoni Stuffed Chee ..read more
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5M ago
Frightfully Delicious Plant-Based Halloween Treats Jeff Surak Fri, 10/13/2023 - 13:29
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We’ve scared up some sweet treats for you to try this Halloween. Make a Clementine Pumpkin Patch or Healthy Halloween Fruit Board for your spooky season celebrations and kids will be screaming for more!
Creative ideas like these are often the trick to getting kids to eat more fruit. That’s critical, because the scary fact is a third of children don’t eat fruit daily, according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not eating eno ..read more