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News & Events for Health Empowerment // January 26, 2023
BLACK HISTORY ROOTED IN PLANTS
Plant-focused cuisines have existed throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America for centuries. Yet plant-based diets in the United States have been associated with whiteness and seem to be inaccessible for lower-income neighborhoods and among communities of color.
Black chefs today are shifting this narrative by offering more culturally resonant plant-powered meals. They are reimagining popular soul and comfort food dishes with both flavor and health in mind. By changing the food landscape we can promote health and well-being among Black communities that have been disproportionately affected by diabetes, hypertension, and other health conditions.
On the heels of our Health Freedom Walks honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., our Plant Powered community continues the celebration of Black culture, heritage, and foodways with Black History Month events in Harlem and Bushwick. Join us!
Join PPMNY over a dinner of plant-powered Ethiopian cuisine! You'll choose your meal off the menu and get to know other people in our health-seeking community. Hold your seat with a $10 deposit that will be put toward group appetizers. Hosted by Elaine Perlman, Karina Pearse, and Rebecca Johnson.
Whole food, plant-based nutrition has the power to nourish the African diaspora and reduce health disparities in Black communities. Let’s come together over food, with a series of demos and tastings that reinterpret and transform popular southern dishes led by local Black chefs Brandy Cochrane, Rebecca Johnson, and Genny Mack. Then learn the research case for plants with nurse practitioner Aisha Smith-Ellis from SmithCare.
Fusing Black History and American Heart Months — both celebrated in February — we’re drawing your attention to urgent health disparities in Black communities. Troubling data show that Black New Yorkers have by far the highest rates of early mortality from heart disease:
Figure from NYC Department of Health’s Epi Data Brief, November 2017
It doesn’t have to be this way! Plant-based nutrition has the power to turn these statistics around through both the prevention and reversal of heart disease.
Eat your greens and reduce oil intake. These are two top strategies for increasing healthy blood flow, recommended last night by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., at our Heart to Healthy Heart livestream event. A celebrated plant-based physician who pioneered food-as-medicine for advanced cardiovascular disease, Dr. Esselstyn shared findings from his research applying low-fat, whole food, plant-based nutrition to heal his patients. Watch the replay of the interview:
We all have our hurdles to healthy eating. Whether it’s cravings, skeptical friends, a busy lifestyle, or stress, each of us could use some help. Join our safe support space to breathe, reset, and learn supportive lifestyle strategies, led by Lori Pitkowsky, MSW, and Denise Bassin, PhD, PPMNY Community Support Facilitators.
El mes de febrero es el mes de la concientización sobre las enfermedades cardíacas, y los miembros de la comunidad en español de PPMNY estarán discutiendo los poderosos hechos basados en evidencia sobre la relación entre la salud cardiovascular y la comida en su plato.
In celebration of Lunar New Year, we’ll explore a wide variety of traditional Asian produce at a specialty market in Long Island. Michelle Loy, MD, FAAP, who specializes in culinary medicine will lead the tour, discussing nutritional benefits and ideas for healthful food preparation.
In March, PPMNY will be 4 years old! We’re gearing up for our 4th anniversary month with fun and meaningful activities including an online auction. Do you have products or services to contribute to our auction? Fill out this auction submission form by February 15th.
Participants in our 21-Day Plant Powered Jumpstart bundled up last weekend for farmers’ market tours at four different locations. PPMNY volunteers Kele Nkhereanye and Enrica Sacca took a group to Union Square Greenmarket, and Louise Cohen-Silver and Rhotochia AtkinsJones led participants through the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket followed by a group lunch.
Earlier this month, Chef Carole Levy taught us how to incorporate more spices into our food to not only improve flavor and enhance color but also pack more health-promoting compounds into our daily diets. Watch the replay.
Global and grassroots leaders offered solutions to pressing issues in an inspiring series of panels that was hosted by OneShared.World, including one featuring PPMNY’s Lianna Levine Reisner on “eating to save the world.”Watch the replay of the panel.
Engage in conversations about the impact food insecurity has on emotional well-being. The program will feature several speakers, with the keynote provided by Gia Merlo, MD, MBA, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a member of PPMNY’s Board of Directors.
Fight Diabetes with Food Tuesdays, February 7 - March 28, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET – Online Presented by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine FREE – register here
Learn tips and insights for controlling blood sugar, improving blood pressure, losing weight, and more with a healthy diet. Weekly guest panelists will share practical tips for diabetes management and their own personal success stories. Sign up to learn more about this easy, lifesaving, nutrition-based approach!
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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