Healthier Eating: Why It's So Hard to Do What's Best

A diet rich in whole plant foods delivers numerous health benefits while dramatically reducing one's environmental footprint. From weight management to preventing, treating, and even reversing many chronic diseases, a diet filled with whole plant foods has been proven to promote better health outcomes. Despite this knowing this, many people struggle to shift away from health-damaging eating habits and shift to more health-promoting plant-based foods.

At this lively no-judgment talk, you'll learn what makes it more challenging to shift and maintain healthier eating habits.

• How our own wiring works against us
• What social pressures keep us stuck eating less healthy foods
• How our toxic "hyperpalatable" food environment impacts choices

Most importantly, you'll learn concrete steps you can take to overcome these challenges, start eating better, and fuel a better you.

We will start our time together with a whole food, plant-based potluck. Please bring a dish to share that is made exclusively from whole plant ingredients and is free of added oil. Please avoid bringing dishes containing meat, dairy, fish, eggs, or other animal-derived ingredients.

Here are some recipe sites for inspiration:

• Forks Over Knives Recipe Collection (Please note that Forks Over Knives now includes some recipes with oil in their collection. Avoid these recipes or leave out the oil.)
• Monkey and Me Recipes
• Center for Nutrition Studies Recipes

If you are new to this way of eating, feel free to bring something simple like a fresh fruit platter or green salad.

Jan Liband is a fact-based environmentalist, long-time enthusiastic vegan, public speaker, and Silicon Valley veteran who has studied the environmental impacts and health impacts of our global food system for decades. Jan is the is the Chief Researcher and Speaker for Plant-Based Advocates, a Bay Area-based non-profit focused on grassroots actions to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable, plant-based food system and lifestyle. Jan is a sought-after speaker who has presented at numerous conferences, universities, and community organizations on a variety of food, environmental, and health-related topics. He holds a degree in Psychology from U.C. Santa Cruz.

in addition to your plant-based dish to share, please bring your recipe or a list of ingredients. And please invite your friends!

Drive towards the back of the parking lot. About halfway down you will see a smaller parking lot towards the left. We are in Sundean Hall, between the side parking lot and the street.

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