Friday, January 23, 2015

11:30am - 1:00pm  |  Whole Foods Market at Avalon

Join TurningPoint Dietitian Lisa Eisele and Chef Samantha at the NEW Whole Foods Location at Avalon in Alpharetta in a healthy cooking class that includes lunch!

As a breast cancer survivor, it's important know what to do to decrease your chance of recurrence and to stay as healthy as you can.  Food plays a large role in this fight.  TurningPoint's dietitian, Lisa Eisele, along with Chef Samantha Enzmann have planned a healthy, cancer fighting menu.  The menu includes ingredients such as kamut and quinoa, two non-traditional grains, that are not only high in protein, but are great cancer fighters. Lisa will be discussing simple ways to make everyday eating as healthy as can be, while Chef Samantha will show us that eating healthy does not need to be labor intensive.

Class Held at  Whole Foods Market  at Avalon 2800 Old Milton Pkwy Alpharetta, GA  30009

RSVP Required by Tuesday, January 20, 2014

to staff@myturningpoint.org

or call 770-360-9271

Class size is limited. 

This program is open to all breast cancer survivors. TurningPoint's monthly educational programs are offered free of charge through the support of our community partners and donors. 

For this event, guests of breast cancer survivors are welcome with a fee of $15.

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For the past several years coconut oil has been marketed as a "wonder oil".  Marketers claim that coconut oil provides an array of health benefits due mainly from the medium chain-fatty acids (MCFA) it contains. Medium chain-fatty acids are less readily absorbed compared to longer-chain fatty acids, and MCFA's have been shown to have less of an effect on LDL (bad cholesterol).  With that being said, coconut oil is still a saturated fat.  Over 90% of coconut oil is saturated.  Even when we subtract the amount of MCFA's it possesses it still registers at 45% saturated.   Coconut oil may sound like a better alternative based on those numbers, but think of it like this:  Lard, the most "feared" fat of all is only 43% saturated in comparison, and we all know lard is not a health food. So, to answer your question, coconut oil is not a healthy alternative.   There isn't enough reliable research out there to support the use of coconut oil and health, especially at the quantities we are consuming these days.   Until further reliable research is presented, I generally tell my patients to use caution when it comes to the use of coconut oil.