

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Food Groupies: Good Gut Health w/ Ruthie Chipps
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 13 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Learn more about good gut health with a Regional Registered Dietitian for this month's Food Groupies! You'll leave the event knowing about gut-brain basics, food factors, pre- and probiotics, and on-the-go foods. Get some shopping tips and leave with some gut-healthy food samples! Please call 608-269-2010 to register so we can be prepared with enough samples. Free and open to those 18 and over. 

Ruth Chipps, MS, RDN, CD, LD, is Regional Registered Dietitian for Hy-Vee, Inc., providing individual consultations and worksite-wellness programs based at the La Crosse, WI and Winona, MN stores. Her mission is to inspire others through personalized nutrition and purposeful living. She's passionate about teaching healthy (and tasty) cooking methods, providing social and traditional media communications and advancing Food as Medicine initiatives. While directing nutrition services for a chain of wellness centers in Atlanta, Ruth was a frequent guest on CNN and received Georgia's "Recognized Dietitian of the Year" award. Currently she hosts "Harvest of the Month" on NBC-TV (WEAU) which is taped in the Hy-Vee produce department. She is also a monthly "Foodie Friday" guest on WKBT-TV(CBS) morning news in La Crosse. Ruth enjoys spending time on her "green" rooftop garden cultivating vegetables (pulling weeds), cooking outdoors and hiking through the bluffs of Southeast Minnesota's Driftless Zone with her husband.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sparta/food-groupies-good-gut-health-w-ruthie-chipps/200029814078039
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, trips-adventures, trekking, shopping
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 25

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Sparta
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 124 W Main St, Sparta, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54656
- **lat**: 43.94451
- **long**: -90.81187
- **full address**: 124 W Main St, Sparta, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54656

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Sparta Free Library (https://allevents.in/org/sparta-free-library/19203433)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 13 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 124 W Main St, Sparta, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54656
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Sparta Free Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, trips-adventures, trekking, shopping
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Food Groupies: Good Gut Health w/ Ruthie Chipps ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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