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• January 12, 2025 - Insulin and Statins - Not a Life Sentence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn how adding plants can prevent and turn around diabetes, heart disease, dementia, arthritis and more. Join us for a food demo by Chloe Sutliffe. The demo will be followed by a presentation by Jay Sutliffe PhD, RD. Bring a plant-based dish for a potluck style buffet, or just bring yourself to check it out. 

 

• Jay Sutliffe, PhD, RD; Professor of Nutrition & Foods and Director of the PRANDIAL Lab. Northern Arizona University. Research interests are related to: disease prevention and reversal using non-invasive lifestyle practices, wellness across the lifespan, and lifestyle habits of college students. The courses he teaches include: Food Is Medicine, Nutrition for Sport & Wellness, Nutrition Research & Communication, Culinary Arts for Health, Global Nutrition & Foods, & Nutrition for Community Wellness. In addition to his academic experience, he has years of experience in community and residential-based health promotion programs, plant-based restaurant & health food store ownership, and broad experience working with athletes and those interested in wellness. Jay is a Registered Dietitian and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine @ NAU Student Club faculty advisor. Jay is the CFO of Full Circle of Wellness, an Arizona non-profit corporation.

 

• Chloe Sutliffe, BS, LMT, CHWC. Chloe knows her way around the kitchen! She is the culinary lab coordinator for the Health Sciences Nutrition & Foods program. She is also a Rouxbe Culinary Certified chef who has owned and operated three plant-based restaurants, taught many cooking classes, and has a passion for health. Chloe continues to assist in local interventions by guiding participants in applying dietary change and adherence practically. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Natural Health from Clayton College of Natural Health, is a licensed massage therapist, and is a Wellcoach certified health and wellness coach. She has carefully saved the many recipes she used in her restaurants and cooking classes that her customers and students loved. These have been compiled into a cookbook hot off the presses, “Cooking with Chloe,” sold on Amazon. She continues to educate herself in the natural health field. Chloe is the CEO of Full Circle of Wellness, an Arizona non-profit corporation.

 

See also new research published just in October 2024 on an aging study they conducted that found that women who eat nutrient-dense, plant-rich diets age slower: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-research-finds-that-women-who-eat-nutrient-dense-plant-rich-diets-age-slower-302290836.html?tc=eml_cleartime

 

Link to the full article: https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(24)02431-4/fulltext​​​​​​​​​

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• ​February 9, 2025

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Great food and conversation. This is Superbowl Sunday, but we will still get together. 

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• March 9, 2025 - Food as Medicine

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Enjoy a presentation by Ugonna Woods, MD during the potluck gathering.

Dr. Ugonna Woods is a pediatrician in Phoenix, Arizona and has been practicing for the past 21 years at a local community hospital and clinic. Dr. Woods entered medical school directly from high school and completed her Bachelors and Medical degree in six years, graduating as one of the youngest African American females to graduate from medical school in the United States. After graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, she completed her pediatric residency at St Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.  She loves her job and considers it a privilege to serve her patients and show them God's love. She currently is a clinical lead at a Phoenix Community Health Center and is the Health ministry director for the Arizona conference. She also enjoys being one of the area coordinators for the Arizona adventurer club.  In her free time she spends time at her country home with her three boys and loves to be involved with her church's youth groups, hike, cook and travel the world on various mission trips. She is anxiously awaiting the Lord’s very soon return.

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• April 13, 2025​

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Learn how you can use something as ordinary as water to treat illness and injury. You will be amazed at the power to restore in such a simple method of healing. You can easily use it on your family and friends. Rich and Ronda Smith have worked in the Lifestyle Medicine field for decades using and teaching Hydrotherapy. Rich has worked as a Massage Therapist and Exercise Coach and Ronda as an RN.

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• May 11, 2025 - Charcoal Poultices - Testimonial and Demonstration

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Cheryl Reth will present her personal testimony of how charcoal poultices, coupled with hydrotherapy, saved her leg from amputation. Her husband, Fred, will then demonstrate how to make a charcoal poultice.