Food, Chemicals & Your Health

What's for dinner tonight? Learn ways to keep chemicals out of your kitchen.

The Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project invites the public to a lecture at the Wellesley Free Library’s Wakelin Room, Feb. 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., by Michelle Gottlieb, MEM (Master of Environmental Management), who will review the scientific underpinnings of an industrialized food system, and strategies for change. 

Michelle Gottlieb, from Healthcare Without Harm, will share 
guidelines for buying healthy foods as well as tips on how to avoid harmful chemicals in the food you buy and prepare for yourself and your children.

Michelle Gottlieb serves on the Steering Committee of the national non-profit Health Care Without Harm, where she is co-coordinator of its National Healthy Food and Healthcare Program and coordinator for the New England region.  She also works with maternal and child health care professionals to promote healthier food systems and improved environmental health.

Healthy food is a vital component of healthy aging across the lifespan. A growing body of evidence indicates that numerous nutritional factors influence the risk of disease.

Learn about:

•The risks of pesticides and herbicides in everyday food. 

• The dangers in BPA-lined canned goods, and how to find cans that don’t contain BPA.

This free event is open to the public and includes informational resources.  More information about WCPP can be found at http://wcpponline.org/