About this Event
Kickstart Your Health
A FREE 7-Class Food for Life Nutrition & Cooking Series
What if improving your health wasn’t about eating less—but about learning to choose foods that truly nourish your body?
Kickstart Your Health is a FREE seven-class Food for Life series designed to make healthy, plant-based eating practical, delicious, and sustainable. Participants are welcome to attend one class, several classes, or the entire seven-class series.
Based on the Physicians Committee’s successful 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program, this series explores how food choices can support healthy weight management and long-term health without focusing on calorie counting or restrictive dieting.
Throughout the series, we’ll explore:
• Power Your Plate
• Let’s Go!
• Getting in Gear
• Breaking the Food Seduction
• Keys for Natural Appetite Control
• Digestive Health
• Healthy Blood Pressure
• Grocery Store Tour
More Than a Nutrition Class
Each class combines evidence-based nutrition education with practical tools you can actually use at home. Classes feature a plant-based cooking demonstration, food tastings, helpful handouts, and easy, affordable recipes.
Participants will learn how plant-based nutrition can help support healthy weight management, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes management, digestive health, energy, and overall well-being.
Evidence-Based Nutrition You Can Trust
Food for Life is an award-winning nutrition education and cooking program of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in medical research.
The Physicians Committee brings together physicians, dietitians, scientists, and other health professionals to translate nutrition research into practical strategies for preventing and addressing chronic disease. Food for Life classes bring that evidence-based information into the community in a way that is approachable, useful, and delicious.
Your Instructor — Lorie Ward
Lorie Ward is a licensed Food for Life instructor through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, as well as a Certified Nutrition Coach and Food Healing Practitioner. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Education with a focus on nutrition and exercise physiology.
After spending approximately 20 years working in the pharmaceutical industry, Lorie’s path increasingly brought her back to something she had believed in for decades—the extraordinary role food and lifestyle can play in our health.
A longtime vegetarian and plant-based advocate, Lorie is passionate about helping people understand that healthy eating doesn't have to be complicated, expensive, or boring. Her approach combines evidence-based nutrition with real-life experience preparing healthy foods and helping people make choices they can actually sustain.
Her philosophy is simple: food is medicine, and some of the most powerful changes we can make begin right on our plates.
Come for One—or Join Us for All Seven!
You do not have to commit to the entire series. Choose the classes that interest you, attend several, or experience the complete Kickstart Your Health journey.
All classes are FREE. Advance registration is encouraged so we can prepare enough food and materials for everyone.
Come ready to learn, taste, ask questions, and discover just how good healthy eating can be.
Event venue & nearby stays
Dominion Farm Animal Sanctuary, 16610 Polo Club Rd, Fairhope, United States
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