Lifestyle Medicine: Take Health to Heart

Join us for our Fall 2025 three-month series, sharing evidence-based information for improving our physical and mental health through the six pillars of lifestyle medicine. Each of the Sunday afternoon presentations will include a cooking demonstration with samples for all and time for Q&A. Participants will leave each session with delicious recipes to try at home!


Kristin Linzmeyer MD FACC has board certifications in general cardiology and lifestyle medicine. She currently is working at Oregon Heart and Vascular Institute at Riverbend Hospital developing a preventive cardiology clinic where she can use her skills and knowledge about lifestyle choices to help patients treat and potentially reverse their cardiovascular risk factors. Kristin will discuss lifestyle prescriptions that encourage whole food plant-based nutrition, physical activity, good sleep hygiene, healthy stress management, avoidance of toxic substances, and the importance of social connections. Following Kristin's presentation, there will be a heart-healthy cooking demonstration with samples for all by chef Tamera Wilhite. Tamera is a talented chef who received her training though the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's "Food for Life" award-winning nutrition education and cooking class program.


Topic: Take Health to Heart: Lifestyle Medicine and Heart Disease

Presenters: Cardiologist Kristin Linzmeyer, MD, and chef Tamera Wilhite

Location: Kalapuya Community Room and Camas Teaching Kitchen

Visit the Lifestyle Medicine webpage to register and learn more: https://www.eugeneymca.org/plant-based-medicine

Registration is required. If program costs are a barrier to participation, financial assistance is available.

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