Plant Based Nutrition Movement
March, 2019 Newsletter
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REMINDER - Saturday, April 27, 2019
SPRING INTO HEALTH 5K - Run with the Docs
In Beautiful Busse Woods
Elk Grove Village
Join us in our Family Friendly 5K Run/Walk. Not only will you be joined by dozens of Physicians  and other Healthcare Providers, you'll enjoy a delicious, HEALTHY post-run meal, free massages from DuPage Medical Group, and brief informational talks by some of our favorite docs and a special message from Mrs Illinois International!
Care to help us PROMOTE this event? Here are some flyers you can print out and distribute...the more the merrier. They are in PDF format, so everyone should be able to use them!!!
This is a fundraising event, so we encourage you to build teams and share YOUR reason for your interest in plant based nutrition. When you register on the racing site, you be able to create your own personal page to talk about why health matters to you! Details are at SpringIntoHealth.org, or go directly to our RaceRoster site
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PBNM was thrilled to participate in a fabulous program hosted by CHEF (Community Harvest Education Foundation) in Elgin at the Elgin Community College. Our own Dr Steven Lome was the Keynote Speaker focused on heart health, PBNM Board Member and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Dr Ashwani Garg (shown here) shared insights into the impact of food on health, and Dietitian / Plant Based Food Coach/Chef Carol D'Anca treated attendees to a cooking demo and delicious food sampling. It was a very informative morning, and judging from comments heard after the event, more than a few eyes were opened! All 3 presentations can be viewed here.
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Do you have an expertise you'd like to put to work in volunteering for a worthwhile cause? We're looking for help in a number of areas! PBNM is looking for a Treasurer (so if you have accounting experience, or have  volunteered with other non-profits in that capacity before, that would be very helpful!) Also, if you have experience with Wordpress and would like to help create quality content for our website about whole food plant based nutrition, we're looking for content creators. There are numerous other opportunities for volunteers as well...like contacting self-identified plant based physicians to be added to our local database and promoted on our website, to reaching out to local restaurants to determine how "plant based" and "oil free" they are, again to be added to our database.
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Chicago PBNM Groups
S everal PBNM Group Meetings have begun, and new ones are due to begin shortly. Click this MAP for an overview of current and coming soon PBNM Group Meetings.
There are several others as well where we have leaders, but location is still undetermined. So STAY TUNED!!!!
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Currently Active Groups
The PBNM Schaumburg Group meets on the 1st Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm at the Wellspring Church (Covenant Church of Schaumburg) located at 301 N Meacham Road, Schaumburg, and is led by health and fitness advocates, Marcy & Steve Pritzen. Here's a link to the map.
The PBNM Aurora (Hispanic) Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:00 pm at the Rush Copley Heart Institute located at 2088 Ogden Avenue in Aurora, and is led by nurse practitioner, Esparanza Roman. Here's a link to the map.The PBNM Naperville Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:00 pm at the DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church located at 1828 Old Naperville Road in Naperville, and is led by Registered Dietitian, Deepa Deshmukh Here's a link to the map
The PBNM Naperville (DESI-Indian) Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 6:00 pm at the Edward Heart Hospital located at 801 S Washington St, Naperville, IL, and is led by Health & Wellness Advocates, Sharmila & Venkata Vedam. Here's a link to the map.
The PBNM Oak Park Group meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm at Oak Park Library-2nd Floor Veterans Room located at 834 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL, and is led by Functional & Integrative Physician, Carlos Reynes, Here's a link to the map.
The PBNM Lockport Group meets on the 4th Sunday of every month at 3:00 pm at Naked Sprouts Organic located at 938 State Street in Lockport, IL, and is led by Health Enthusiast, Janet Pearson. Here's a link to the map.
The PBNM Plainfield Group meets on the Last Sunday of every month at 4:00 pm at the Plainfield Congregational Church located at 24020 W Fraser Rd, Plainfield, IL, and is led by Health Enthusiast, Craig Theimer, Here's a link to the map
BONUS - KENOSHA, WI is having a meeting on April 18 at 6:00 pm at the Southwest Library / Kenosha Public Library. 7979 38th Avenue in Kenosha. This meeting is being led by Plant Based Enthusiasts Jay Robinson & Meryl Fury. Here's a link to the map.
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Just a quick reminder that there is an informational event scheduled for WEDNESDAY, April 10, from 6:30 - 8:00 pm in Schaumburg at Saladmaster. For information, please visit the informational page on our website and sign up to attend. We will be sending out an email as another quick reminder to all those who have signed up. If you DID sign up, but do not receive a reminder in the next day or two, be sure complete this form!
To help insure a "standard of excellence," we are developing a PBNM Cooking Instructor Certification program with guidelines for instructors to follow to insure high quality and consistency in our cooking classes as well as health and safety protocols. TRAINING for Cooking Coaches is scheduled for June 8 in Schaumburg!
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Find Upcoming PBNM Events - 2 Ways
Our calendars, which may be found on our (PBNM.org/events) as well as on Meetup are the best places to keep abreast of PBNM activities. PBNM Group Meetings and PBNM Cooking Classes (both of which are just getting started) as well as other events are readily found on our calendars. Check them out, and we hope to see you!
For our APRIL events (including PBNM Group Meetings) Click the image below!
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Be sure to Bookmark our Events section on your device so you can always know what's coming up!
As these events also appear our our Meetup Group, by all means join us there so you can sign up for events and be notified of any changes.
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