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Eat to Heal: Chronic Disease and a Plant-based Diet

Event:  Eat to Heal: Chronic Disease and a Plant-based Diet
Date: Feb. 7, 2014Speaker: Jill Edwards, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Nutrition Educator
Time: 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Location, Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota, 3975 Fruitville Road, Sarasota
Admission: Free 
This Freethinkers’ Briefing will consider that all too often, disease treatments focus only on the symptoms, not the causes. Changing what we eat can reduce the risks associated with chronic disease and bring about significant improvements in our health, according to Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Nutrition Educator Jill Edwards. 

 

Edwards received her B.A. in Education from the University of Michigan and M.S. in Exercise Science from Oakland University.  In addition to being a Nutrition Educator, she is an Exercise Physiologist in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and public speaker.

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She is currently enrolled in the University of South Florida's Public Health Graduate Certificate Program. Jill is a certified Clinical Exercise Specialist through ACSM (American College for Sports Medicine) and has a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the Center for Nutrition Studies. She has attended Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's Heart Disease Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic and currently works under Dr. T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and Whole) as an instructor for a CME nutrition course offered by Cornell.

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"Plant-based foods and exercise are powerful healers,” Edwards said.  “I am on a mission to share with people how food and movement can heal their body, mind, and spirit.  Unfortunately, many people suffering from these diseases do not realize that their wrong dietary choices since childhood have caused these serious problems. People need to learn that their health is in their own hands. The fact is, they can be free of illness and brilliantly healthy if they choose a plant-based diet and lead an active lifestyle

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