• Dispelling Medical Myths - This talk deals with the plethora of misinformation that Americans receive daily about health and nutrition, how to find reliable, accurate sources for health and nutrition advice; and present ideas for how to improve health through making the right types of diet and lifestyle changes.
  
  
• Improving Your Child's Health Through Dietary Improvement - Almost everyone with children wishes they would eat better. This workshop will discuss the reasons why parents should invest effort in improving the family diet, as well as offer tips as to how to do so.
  
  
• Sports Nutrition - Athletic performance is profoundly influenced by diet. Students desiring to compete at the elite level, adults who are interested in achieving better fitness, and professional athletes who earn a living through excellent performance can benefit from learning about the best diet for athletes. Includes a thorough discussion of supplementation, and sports nutrition myths.
  
  
• Weight Loss - 74% of the population is overweight, and more and more overweight people are becoming obese each year. Gaining weight is easy, but losing weight can be too! A thorough discussion of how to safely and permanently lose weight, complete with tips on how to overcome common obstacles.
  
  
• How to Increase Your Energy - Almost everyone complains about being too tired at least some of the time, but the reality is that people of all ages can have more than enough energy to do everything they want to every day.
  
  
• Food Addictions - If you can't stop eating sugar or potato chips, you're not suffering from a character defect, you're normal. Scientific research actually shows that certain foods affect the brain like drugs do. Learn the science behind how foods become addictive and also how you can beat your own food addictions.
  
  
• Depression - Millions of people are diagnosed with depression every year, and drugs are usually recommended for treatment. This workshop is directed at the increasing number of people who are questioning their diagnosis and interested in alternatives to drugs.
  
  

• Improving Academic Performance and Behavior in Children
• School Nutrition
• Women's Health
• Osteoporosis
• Take Charge of Your Hormones
• The Consumer's Guide to Evaluating Health Information and Research
• Biological Causes and Treatments for Autism
• Understanding Alternative Medicine: Learning About New Practices
• Cancer Prevention
• Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
• Diabetes
• Reversing Aging
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Politics and Health
• Dietary Myths
• An Introduction to Health and Wellness through Diet and Lifestyle Improvement (note: this is a 3-hour program)

Wellness Forum Foods offers a variety of hands on classes and cooking demonstrations, in our facility or yours, for the beginner cook, who wants to learn how to prepare healthy vegetarian meals using natural ingredients. Instructor Del Sroufe has been teaching vegetarian cooking classes for over 8 years and brings over 18 years of professional cooking experience to his classes. Del has a way of making his students feel at ease in his classes and is always entertaining.

• Intro to Grains
• Intro to Bean Cookery
• Meat Substitutes - tofu, tempeh, seitan
• Fat-Free Stir Fry
• Gluten Free Cooking
• Gluten Free Baking
• Healthy Vegan Baking - cookies, cakes, pies, breads, low fat baking
• Healthy Cooking for the Holidays - Making a Healthy Feast
• Cooking with Herbs
• Cooking for Diabetics
• Healthy Soups
• Thirty Minute Meals
• Cooking for Weight Loss - lose the fat, not the flavor
• Ethnic, Regional and International Cooking - Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Caribbean, Mexican, Southern, Mardi Gras, Moroccan
• Creative Healthy Lunches for Kids
• Cooking With Kids = pizza party, healthy snacks
• Making Bread from Scratch
  
  
• Talks:
• Intro to Veganism
• Why Vegan?
• Pursuing the Healthy Vegan Diet
• The Environmental Argument for Healthier Eating
• Vegan Weight Loss

• Structuring an Effective Exercise Program
• Executive Fitness and Health
• Fitness Boxing Demonstration
• Yoga Demonstration
• Weight Training for Beginners
• Exercise for the Injured
• Training for a Career in Athletics