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News & Events for Health Empowerment // January 9, 2024
EAT WITH PURPOSE THIS MLK DAY
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, PPMNY is uniting communities to stand up for health freedom with our 2nd Annual Health Freedom Walks. Join us for a plant-powered restaurant crawl paying tribute to Dr. King’s enduring legacy of justice.
Hold your spot for just $5 by registering below at your preferred location by Friday!
*Princeton, NJ is currently full. Waitlist available.
PPMNY’s commitment to overcoming health disparities and food inequities doesn’t stop. Keep reading to learn more about opportunities to overcome the status quo.
“In three weeks I was able to get off of blood pressure medicine and dropped 10 pounds.”
— Jonathan, Plant Powered Jumpstart graduate
Experience the freedom of taking charge of your own health in 2024! We’re one week away from our next round of the 21-Day Plant Powered Jumpstart — a virtual health empowerment program designed not only to help you overcome chronic health conditions, but also to thrive and flourish with plant-based nutrition!
The Jumpstart offers insightful educational sessions, delicious recipes, cooking demos, and personalized mentoring in small groups. You’ll also join a virtual community of plant-powered peers, all finding your power and freedom together. It all starts next Thursday, January 18th!
Register by Monday, January 15
Sign up with a friend, family member, or colleague to have fun and get healthy together!
👉 Choose the price that fits your budget: Standard rate of $150, sponsor rate of $250, and discounted spots for just $50. Register now.
We were at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s free fitness fair over the weekend — both in-person and online! In the JCC lobby, Chef Brandy Cochrane demoed an Israeli salad with a garbanzo bean “feta” while Wendy Sax, Nicole Scholet, and Sergio Villavicencio talked to community members. Chef Carole Levy was also featured in the fair’s virtual series, preparing a lemony chickpea soup and healthy wraps.
Join us for Chef Carole’s next livestream demo on Sunday, February 4th!Sign up here for a reminder and advance recipes.
Netflix recently released the new limited documentary series You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment which follows two identical twins as they change their diets and lifestyles for eight weeks in a unique scientific experiment designed to explore how certain foods impact the body. Watch on Netflix here.
Don’t have a Netflix account? Check out the 2018 documentary Eating You Alive, completely free on YouTube.
Global Movie Nights is a new project that gets the word out about plant-based nutrition through monthly documentary screenings. Anyone can join in by hosting a screening event in your home with a few friends — or make a big party out of it! Global Movie Nights selects a film for each month, aligning people across the planet. February’s film is The Game Changers, which follows the performance, recuperation, and career longevity of top athletes who follow a plant-based diet, produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Learn more here.
Our mailing address: Plant Powered Metro New York, PO Box 20771, New York NY 10025
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.
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