Learn how to make plant-based eating delicious with chef Jack Middleton from The Empowered Vegan.
Lifestyle MED LIVE are interactive online events where you join leading experts to explore the power of healthy lifestyles for the prevention, treatment and even reversal of today's most common chronic diseases.
Hosts: Lifestyle Is Medicine, Paradise Fields
This is a free Zoom event. You will receive the login link when you register. Share this event with a friend!
PRESENTER
Chef Jack Middleton
For all of his adult life (the better part of a decade), Chef Jack Middleton has been cooking professionally. He attended the Chef Training program at George Brown College in Toronto and completed his 5000-hour apprenticeship at Quatrefoil Restaurant in Dundas ON. He became a Red Seal Certified Chef in 2013 and has continued to grow his skills and passion for cooking since.
Towards the end of 2015, Jack weighed approximately 250lbs and despite his fine-dining background, was subsisting on fast food and pizza. He briefly went on a low-calorie diet and lost 50lbs in a short period of time. Despite the liberation of his weight-loss success, he knew that this kind of lifestyle was not sustainable. During that time his mentor introduced him to the lectures of Gary Yourofsky and films such as Earthlings and Cowspiracy. He realized the way he was eating was harming himself, the planet and other sentient beings and he decided to make a change. Instead of seeing the (meat-based) low-calorie diet to completion, he went vegan on January 1st, 2016 and proceeded to lose another 40lbs in the 8 months following without restricting his diet and without counting calories.
MAIN ORGANIZERS
Lifestyle Is Medicine is a not-for-profit in Toronto that shares science-based lifestyle medicine to help individuals and families prevent and reverse today's most common chronic diseases. Learn more: www.lifestylemed.org
CLINIC PARTNER
Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics is a group of lifestyle medicine clinics that focus on preventing, treating and reversing today's most common health conditions using evidence-based lifestyle medicine. Pathways operates two medical clinics in Toronto: the North York Lifestyle Medicine Clinic and Junction Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. To learn more about Pathways and book an appointment: www.pathwaystowholeness.ca
PARTNERS
Paradise Fields is a certified organic farm and health clinic on a mission to produce the world's most nutrient-dense food and help people experience wholistic health. Learn more at: www.paradisefields.ca
Western Toronto Korean Seventh-day Adventist Church. Seventh-day Adventists are widely recognized as one of the healthiest people groups in North America and promote healthy living as part of their health practice. Learn more at www.adventist.org