For 40 years, Addiction Treatment Services (ATS) has provided outpatient and residential treatment and services for people experiencing substance dependencies with a mission to promote a patient’s overall health, wellness, and recovery. The organization works in Grand...
This article first ran in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Ag Forum. Above photo: Farmers face many challenges, and you can help simply by purchasing local food. (Photo by Dan Meyers) Local farms are a staple of the community, and they enrich Michigan’s environment,...
It might sound too good to be true, but one of the most effective ways to improve your diet is simply to cook more at home with whole foods. The strategy is so unadorned, so not a part of the diet fad industry that “just cook at home” can seem easy to dismiss. But...
From the earliest days of our Farms, Food & Health program—with its emphasis on culinary medicine methods—we have worked closely with physicians and other medical professionals to spread the word about the importance of cooking and eating nutritionally rich,...
If we embrace the centuries-old adage “let food be thy medicine,” a cooking class at the physician’s office makes all the sense in the world.