| News, Events, & Opportunities // December 2020 |
Dear Plant Powered Community,
I think we could all use a little help right now...
Help: I'm not making healthy food choices!
Help: How can I keep juggling my family and work from home?
Help: When can I take a real holiday?
Help: How long will these restrictions last?
As this crazed year comes to a close, Plant Powered Metro New York wants to offer you more of a lifeline, in recognition of the ongoing emotional trauma in our lives. How can we help?
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Next week, we're launching a monthly Nutrition Support Circle, facilitated by a social worker and psychologist from our volunteer team, to help you reach your goals for healthy eating and living.
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Our Plant Powered Lifestyle Mentorship program is open to anyone based in the NY metro area to get peer support, one-on-one, for a whole month.
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Join our community-wide Facebook Group, Plant Powered Metro NY Community, to ask your questions, swap food photos, and share recipes.
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Health care workers, we see you! As work gets tough -- again -- nourish yourself by joining our two-week jumpstart in January, just for you and your families. More details are below!
In nourishment and health,
Lianna Levine Reisner, Network Director
P.S. Congratulations to our survey prize winners! Virginia L. won the PlantPure meal starters, and Will B. and Priya P. won plant-based books by Dr. Michael Greger. Even though the prizes are gone, the survey is still open through tomorrow, and we'd love to learn from more of you! Complete the survey here.
SUPPORT FOR OUR HEALTH CARE WORKERS
Our 14-Day Plant Powered Jumpstart for Health Care Workers kicks off on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 7:00 PM and runs through Sunday, January 24!
Donation-based fee -- all are welcome: details and registration here - register by Sunday 1/3
Ring in the new year with our virtual jumpstart for metro-area health care workers and their family members! This unique food-as-medicine experience will educate and inspire you with the power of whole food, plant-based nutrition in preventing, treating, and reversing chronic diseases -- including the underlying conditions that make COVID-19 more dangerous: diabetes, heart disease, respiratory diseases, obesity, and hypertension, among others. We'll help you take home the knowledge, skills, and tools to adopt a whole food, plant-based lifestyle for a full two weeks.
Virtual sessions throughout the program will offer nutrition education, culinary skill-building and demonstrations, meal planning resources, peer mentorship, and group support. Don't miss this opportunity to build your own health resilience as you care for others -- whether you're a clinician, an administrator, office staff, or a health care facility worker.
Please share this opportunity with the health care workers in your lives!
Questions? Email jumpstart@ppmny.org. Interested in sponsoring a participant? Contact Lianna: lianna@ppmny.org
UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS
All times below are Eastern Standard Time.
Please make a donation as you take advantage of these free opportunities!
And subscribe to our YouTube channel to check out newly uploaded videos of past events.
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Plant-Powered Book Club: Healthy At Last Join us in discussing Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' new book, Healthy At Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes & Other Chronic Illnesses. Surprise: the author himself will join us! |
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Evidence-Based Nutrition for Healthy Aging |
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Ready, Set, Go: Plant-Based Meals for the Week Sunday, December 6, 5:00 - 6:30 PM |
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Virtual Potluck + Recipe Swap |
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Fortify Your Health with Food: 2-Day Virtual Conference Wednesday, December 9, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: How Food Policy Affects Your Health - register here ($10)
Wednesday, December 16, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM: The Science, Art + Practice of Plant-Based Nutrition - register here ($18)
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Cooking with Chef Carole: Healthier Hanukkah Favorites Wednesday, December 9, 7:00 - 8:15 PM FREE - register here Explore plant-based SOS-free cooking with PPMNY Culinary Educator Carole Levy, who will prepare some of her favorite Hanukkah dishes. |
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Own Your Health with Chef AJ: Dinner Chef AJ demonstrates dinner dishes from her new book, Own Your Health. |
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Nutrition Support Group Join our new monthly forum to help you meet your goals for healthy eating and living, led by PPMNY leaders Lori Pitkowsky, LSW and Health & Wellness Coach, and psychologist Denise Bassin, PhD. |
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Quick & Simple Plant Powered Meals: West African Peanut Stew Chef Cara Santamaria, PPMNY Culinary Educator, will demonstrate how to make a hearty recipe in just 30 minutes. |
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Save the Date...
- Tuesday, December 15, 8:00 PM: Virtual Roundtable for Plant-Based Health Coaches
- Sunday, December 20, 5:00 PM: Cooking with Chef Carole
MORE PLANT POWERED RESOURCES
How I Healed Painful Endometriosis Symptoms with a Gluten-Free Plant-Based Diet
featuring PPMNY Network Director Lianna Levine Reisner
A story for women: Food can change your hormones for the better!
Empowering Multiple Myeloma Patients with Nutrition
featuring PPMNY Medical Advisory Board member Urvi Shah, MD
Dr. Shah is conducting medical research on the impact of a plant-based diet on plasma cell disorders. Learn how to support her important blood cancer research.
Adapting Plant-Based Education During COVID-19
featuring PPMNY Medical Advisory Board member Eugenia Soliterman, MPH, MSN, FNP-BC
Nurse Eugenia shifted her whole food, plant-based nutrition programming online and has educated more than 100 families in her Bronx community!
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Plant Powered Metro New York empowers people to find better health and overcome chronic disease through whole food, plant-based nutrition. We offer evidence-based education, resources, and support to create community and inspire change throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Our mailing address: Plant Powered Metro New York, PO Box 20771, New York NY 10025
Questions? Email us at info@ppmny.org.
