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WESTLAKE VILLAGE -- When it comes time for dinner, do you ever feel like you're in a rut? Cooking the same dishes, eating the same foods, ordering the same takeout? Well, if you want to get out of the that rut and at the same time learn new ways to eat healthy, step inside the Wellness Kitchen. Anyone can take a class inside the kitchen, but this is not your typical cooking class.
It is a two hour food experience that some say can change your life. The Wellness Kitchen is all part of the Health and Longevity Institute at the Four Seasons Hotel and Spa in Westlake Village. Registered dietician paulette lambert teaches mindful eating instead of simply gorging yourself. She offers strategies on how to prepare healthy meals year round.
One class focuses on preparing a holiday meal that's delicious and nutritious. Lambert says we have 65 percent of the people in the U.S. are overweight. She says people need to learn better eating habits and that would be an important chage in nutrition in this country. One of the students in her class is Emilie Rekart. She says she is re-learning the way she approaches cooking.
She says the class has given her a nice variety of choices when it comes to cooking. She says she's going to take the tools she learned in class and bring them with her the next time she goes to the Farmers Market. She says usually she buys the same old vegetables but now she'll try some new items and mix them with the knowledge she's getting from class to incorporate them into her nightly meals. She says it's exciting to have new ideas for cooking.
Lambert teaches everyone who comes throught the Wellness Kitcehn that food really is edible medicine. But this medicine tastes better than any medicine you've ever tasted before, starting with a twist on the holiday turkey. Lambert's version is stuffed with spinach and pine nuts and drizzled with a tart cherry sauce, so you can pack on the flavor without packing on the pounds. Rekart says it really doesn't even take that much time to make some of the savory dishes and that she's learned you really can make delicious meals that are still healthy. Lambert says the lessons her students learn in class can transform not only their meals, but themselves as well.
Nutritionists at the Wellness Kitchen have also paired up with local schools, bringing in cafeteria workers and cooks to teach them how to prepare tasty and healthy school lunches. For more information on the Wellness Kitchen and the entire California Health and Longevity Institute, go to www.CHLI.com
It is a two hour food experience that some say can change your life. The Wellness Kitchen is all part of the Health and Longevity Institute at the Four Seasons Hotel and Spa in Westlake Village. Registered dietician paulette lambert teaches mindful eating instead of simply gorging yourself. She offers strategies on how to prepare healthy meals year round.
One class focuses on preparing a holiday meal that's delicious and nutritious. Lambert says we have 65 percent of the people in the U.S. are overweight. She says people need to learn better eating habits and that would be an important chage in nutrition in this country. One of the students in her class is Emilie Rekart. She says she is re-learning the way she approaches cooking.
She says the class has given her a nice variety of choices when it comes to cooking. She says she's going to take the tools she learned in class and bring them with her the next time she goes to the Farmers Market. She says usually she buys the same old vegetables but now she'll try some new items and mix them with the knowledge she's getting from class to incorporate them into her nightly meals. She says it's exciting to have new ideas for cooking.
Lambert teaches everyone who comes throught the Wellness Kitcehn that food really is edible medicine. But this medicine tastes better than any medicine you've ever tasted before, starting with a twist on the holiday turkey. Lambert's version is stuffed with spinach and pine nuts and drizzled with a tart cherry sauce, so you can pack on the flavor without packing on the pounds. Rekart says it really doesn't even take that much time to make some of the savory dishes and that she's learned you really can make delicious meals that are still healthy. Lambert says the lessons her students learn in class can transform not only their meals, but themselves as well.
Nutritionists at the Wellness Kitchen have also paired up with local schools, bringing in cafeteria workers and cooks to teach them how to prepare tasty and healthy school lunches. For more information on the Wellness Kitchen and the entire California Health and Longevity Institute, go to www.CHLI.com
