Free Webinar: Eating Healthy During the Holidays with Laura Pole
Tuesday November 10th at 4 PM PT/7 PM ET
What you’ll learn in this webinar:
When you’re living with cancer, what you eat matters. And enjoying nourishing foods during the holidays matters. Join Chef and Oncology Nurse Laura Pole and see how you can include deliciously nourishing holiday meals that you, your family and friends will relish eating.
In this class, we’ll find out about your favorite winter holiday foods. Then you’ll learn tips for making typical holiday side dishes and treats delicious and healthier. You’ll learn how to use real ingredients instead of processed ones, how to substitute dairy ingredients, and how to increase nutritional content in recipes. Chef Laura will also share recipes including her “deja chew” recipes for holiday leftovers!
Please Note: Every individual’s needs are unique. Chef Laura aims to offer a variety of health-promoting options for each individual to consider, but does not prescribe the specific dietary content of any program for anyone.
About Laura
Laura Pole, Director of Smith Center’s Nourishment Education Programs, has served as the head retreat chef and nurse consultant since 1997. She is an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist and Integrative Oncology Navigator with over 45 years experience in caring for people with serious illness. She is also a certified Health Supportive Chef and a culinary translator, who learned how to cook at the apron strings of Creole and Cajun cooks in her southwest Louisiana hometown. She is a professional musician and tends to “fold in” music and movement into her programs.
Her popular cooking classes are centered on culinary translation: that is, helping participants translate a diet prescription to a plate of nourishing delicious food. Laura spearheaded Smith Center’s project to create Soul Savory, a cookbook of healthy and delicious African American and African heritage foods.
She co-created and presented Smith Center’s workshop for oncology dieticians and chefs on Culinary Translation in Cancer Care. Laura is the founder of Eating for a Lifetime, a consulting business dedicated to teaching individuals and professionals about health supportive eating and food preparation.
In addition to Laura’s work with nourishment, she is the co-coordinator of Smith Center’s Patient Navigation Training in Integrative Cancer Care. In addition, Laura is Senior Clinical Consultant for CancerChoices.org, a free, evidence-based website providing information and guidance to people with cancer, their caregivers, and health professionals on integrative cancer care.