Food For Life Classes

Food For Life Nutrition Education and Cooking Classes

Designed by physicians, nurses, and registered dietitians, Food for Life classes provide a unique blend of nutrition education with practical cooking demonstration providing information about how certain foods and nutrients work to promote health and fight disease.

The classes are designed to translate complex scientific nutrition information into simple to understand practical steps using cooking skills and tips that anyone can easily implement into their family cooking.

Food for Life nutrition and cooking classes feature a nutrition lecture and a live cooking demonstration of delicious, health-promoting dishes, along with handouts of easy and affordable recipes participants can prepare at home. Class content is versatile and can fit into 1-2 hour time frame, all within a fun supportive group environment.

Each Food For Life Class Includes:

Specific information about how certain foods and nutrients work to promote or discourage disease
Cooking demonstrations and sampling of delicious, healthful recipes that can be easily made at home
Practical cooking skills and tips for making healthful eating habits part of daily life
A supportive and motivational atmosphere to help you take charge of your health through the foods you choose and eat

INVESTMENT AND CLASS DETAILS

In-Person Classes*

SINGLE CLASS: 65 AUD per class

Discount apply for class series

Classes are held at various locations in Perth, Western Australia

Duration: 1.5 – 2 hours

Online Classes*

SINGLE CLASS: 35 AUD per class OR

Discount applies for class series

Classes are delivered online via Zoom

Duration: 1.5 hours

*Pricing applicable for all class curricula except the Kids Health class series, Nutrition Essentials class series and Employee Wellness program.

Our Food For Life classes are designed to address a variety of specific health needs.

Kickstart Your Health

This seven-class series guides participants on a journey toward healthy weight loss, healthy weight maintenance, and an overall healthful and sustainable diet.

For some participants, this may be the first time that food choice is prioritized over restricting food amounts as a guiding principle to support long-term health. This is a lifesaving learning experience bolstered by delicious plant-based recipes that help to lower cholesterol, control diabetes, lower blood pressure, and even boost energy and mood.

Power of Your Plate
Let’s Go!
Getting in Gear
Breaking the Food Seduction
Keys for Natural Appetite Control
Digestive Health
Healthy Blood Pressure

Cancer Project

This seven-class series guides participants to make the critical connection between diet and the risk of developing various forms of cancer. With a focus on low-fat plant-based nutrition, you will develop an understanding of specific foods and nutrients that either promote or discourage cancer development.

Classes are suitable for cancer survivors and their family and friends as well as individuals looking to prevent cancer. These classes are not intended for individuals currently undergoing breast cancer treatment.

Introduction: How Foods Fight Cancer
Fueling Up on Low-Fat Foods
Favoring Fiber
Discovering Dairy Alternatives
Replacing Meat
Cancer-Fighting Compounds and Immune-Boosting Foods
Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Diabetes Initiative

The eight-class series provides the knowledge, tools, and lifestyle strategies to help individuals reduce the risk of developing diabetes, and to manage and even reverse the disease.

Classes are intended for those with diabetes, prediabetes, or a family history or risk factors for developing diabetes, and their adult family members and loved ones.

Introduction to How Foods Fight Diabetes
The Power of Your Plate and Grocery Cart
Understanding Type 2 Diabetes
Designing a Diet for Maximum Weight Control
The Glycemic Index
Keeping a Healthy Heart
Diabetes Care From Head to Toe
Making It Work for You

Food For Fitness

Whether participants are competitive athletes or individuals with active lifestyles, this course will provide insight into the best plant-based foods and nutrients to power athletic performance and physical activity.

Similarly, participants will learn dietary strategies to reduce inflammation and support recovery outcomes.

Your Body In Balance

This nine-class series draws from the popular book Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC.

Focusing on hormone related conditions that impact women and men of all ages and life stages, class content examines how specific dietary changes work to bring hormone levels into balance and teaching strategies participants can apply in their daily lives to prevent, manage, or even reverse hormone-related conditions.

Foods for Fertility
Curing Cramps and Premenstrual Syndrome
Tackling Hormone-Related Cancers
Reversing PCOS and Conquering Diabetes
Tackling Menopause
Curing Erectile Dysfunction and Saving Your Life
A Healthy Thyroid
Foods and Mood
Avoiding Environmental Chemicals

Let's Beat Breast Cancer

The classes in this series will bring into focus the undeniable connection between diet and cancer risk. Participants will learn about the role of different foods and nutrients in either promoting or discouraging growth of different cancers, including breast cancer. The last class will focus more specifically on foods that have been shown to directly reduce breast cancer risk and support survival.

The intended audience are cancer survivors and their family and friends, as well as those looking to prevent the disease. These classes are not intended for individuals currently undergoing breast cancer treatment.

Cooking to combat COVID-19

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, studies and data have shown individuals with underlying chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, or obesity are at greater risk of developing severe infection.

This series of four classes will illuminate how a diet rich in low-fat plant-based foods counters chronic conditions and supports a healthy immune system, and thereby reduces the likelihood of severe COVID-19 and hospitalization. Participants will leave with knowledge and skills to boost immunity long after the pandemic.

Foods For a Healthy Heart

This class will arm participants with the knowledge and practical skills to take action to bolster heart health through simple diet and lifestyle changes. Class topics focus on cardiovascular risk factors with recipes and nutrition strategies for improving or reversing these conditions and reducing incidence of cardiovascular disease.

High blood pressure: A plant-based diet, rich in potassium, improves blood pressure.
High cholesterol: Aim for high-fiber foods, which can help to lower cholesterol.
Atherosclerosis: Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol reduce plaque build-up in the arteries and improve blood flow.
Inflammation: Plant-based diets help reduce inflammation, which can lead to heart disease.

Power Foods For the Brain

This class will shine a light on the foods and nutrients to prioritize for optimal brain health.

Drawing from the book Power Foods for the Brain by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, the class will guide participants through the research supporting a low-fat plant-based diet for maintaining brain function and minimizing risk for cognitive decline.

Kids Health

This four-class series is designed to be a fun and engaging learning experience for kids between the ages of 9 and 12 and in grades 4-6. The goal of this series is to provide foundational knowledge and skills to children early in life to set them up for success well into adulthood.

As the children are exposed to the benefits of consuming a healthful diet, they are also tasting delicious foods prepared during a live cooking demonstration. Kids will participate in games and activities to cement their learning, and they will be provided with handouts of the recipes so they can share and prepare them at home.

Employee Wellness

This nine-week workplace class series is designed to guide employees as they work to unlock the role of food choices for better health. Through the introduction of plant-based nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, and supportive group discussion, employees will take away the learning and tools they apply practically for improving overall health and reducing chronic disease risk.

Further benefits include lowered health care costs, fewer sick days, improved productivity at work and improved energy and moods.

Power of Your Plate
Let’s Go!
Getting in Gear
Breaking the Food Seduction
Keys for Natural Appetite Control
Digestive Health
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Introduction to How Foods Fight Diabetes
Healthy Blood Pressure

Nutrition Essentials (No live cooking demonstration)

This four-class series promotes a low-fat plant-based diet for preventing some of the most common chronic diseases. Grounded in evidence-based science, this series will empower participants by revealing the whys and hows—the knowledge and skills—for effective and long-term weight loss and maintenance in support of overall health.

Participants receive helpful, easy-to-follow handouts and guides to cement learning and ease them into implementation of new dietary changes, including healthy menu ideas, weekly menu planning guides, suggested plant-based recipe substitutions, an easy-to-follow fiber-tracker, and more.

"This class is a gem - the most delicious cooking class I have taken. An opportunity for healthy people and for those with chronic illness to learn to prepare delicious and nutritious food." —Lynn M. at Kaiser in Santa Rosa, CA

“Everyone who is concerned about nutrition will benefit from this class - and enjoy it. For those of us challenged to survive cancer, it is a great inspiration!”

The FFL class offered a wealth of information on how the foods we eat interact within the body to nourish and detoxify. The cooking class is wonderful, watching the preparation with the pleasure of food sampling together while making new relationships.