• Learn from Betsy Bragg, certified as a Hippocrates Health Educator in the techniques of the Hippocrates Health Institute’s leaders -Ann Wigmore,  Brian Clement, Viktoras Kulvinskas & Paul Nison. 25 years of teaching and counselling experience.  MA Stanford University and MA Boston University.
• Be revitalized and re-energized by eating nourishing, vibrant, life-giving, healing and enjoyable foods that will build your immune system to its highest level.  
• Learn to Prepare New Recipes – Each week the class learns and shares great healthy living foods recipes .
• Take home Hippocrates DVD’s and workbook to learn at your leisure and then get your questions answered in class.
• Talk with weekly guests – Hippocrates graduates -recovered from diabetes, cancer, chronic fatigue, peptic ulcers, lyme disease, depression and other dis-eases.
• Lose weight easily and naturally.
• Discover how easy and quick it is to prepare healthy food that adults and kids love to eat.
• Free on-going support and free post class meetings.

Be certified as Health Educator upon completion of 10 weeks.LIFE FORCE ENERGY

 
 
Week One – Principles of Health

• Taste treat – “Potato (really Cauliflower)” Salad Roll-ups, Flax Crackers & Sprouts
• Who We Are
• Importance of Health Assessments
• Study Guide Discussion – DVD – Principles of Health
• Getting Started: Kitchen Equipment
• Juicing & Tasting Wheatgrass
• Hands-on Comparison of Juicers
• Discussion of the DVD – “Principles of Health”
• Discussion of the Benefits of Wheatgrass – The Complete Food
• Making & Tasting Hippocrates Green Drink
• Hippocrates Approach to Optimum Health

Week Two -Special Event – Guest John Kohler  –  “Just Because It’s Raw, Does Not Mean It’s Healthy”, “Growing Your Own Greens” & Spectacular Food Demo  – See folowing article

• Study Guide Discussion – Sprouting Seeds and Growing Wheatgrass by Michael Bergonzi
• Benefits and how to sprout adzuki, mung and lentil and how to grow wheatgrass and sunflower sprouts.
• Guest speaker:  Randy Jacobs  will teach you how to grow wheatgrass & sunflower sprouts
• Take home trays, earth and seeds and experience growing your own.

Week Four – Supplements -  Dorothy Torrey
 

• Prepare & Eat  Vegetarian Nori/Sushi Rolls
• Learn to make and enjoy eating another appetizer – mock salmon served on red pepper squares – this is in section 17 of your notebooks since it is often served as an entrée.
• Discussion of the article – “Enzymes” and the Hippocrates DVD “Supplements”
• Guest Speaker – Dorothy Torrey, who tells her story of recovering from cancer and suicidal depression through living foods.  See her article, “Alkalizing with Unconditional Love”.
• Discuss with Dorothy the DVD – “Healing Cancer from Within”.

Week Five- Fasting on Liquid Nourishment/Purification-  Guest Tom Lindsley

• Salad dressing demos/presentation and sharing of salads, dressings and recipes
• Guest speaker: Tom Lindsley, Hippocrates graduate with 20 years nutritional background and 8 years of eating living foods.
• Discuss Hippocrates DVD “Fasting on Liquid Nourishment”:  The benefits of fasting on green juice rather than water.  A review of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual benefits of fasting.  Discuss Hippocrates DVD Detox & Elimination:  The workings of the elimination systems (Lymph, Liver, Lung, Kidneys and Skin) and your bodies’ reactions to a detoxifying program).

Week 6 – Raising Children in the Living Food Lifestyle – Guest Wendy Snyder
     

•  Dehydrating demo/presentation and sharing of many dehydrated living foods.
•  Guest Speakers:  Wendy Snyder, Life Force Energy & Hippocrates Health Institute graduate, chiropractor, mother of 7 year old twins, diagnosed with breast cancer July 2008, now feeling great – will share her journey to health and getting her family healthy. 
• Discuss Hippocrates DVD “Practical Living:  How to really live the Hippocrates Lifestyle when you return home. How to have what you need at home, work, and in social situations”. Also discuss handouts – “Kids, Fruits & Veggies: An Awesome Combination” and “The Joy of Dehydrating”. 
   

Week 7 -  Detoxification – Guest Jim Rabb

•  Marinara Sauce demo and hands-on preparation of many different types of pastas  using many gadgets and gizmos.
• Each term, class members have requested that we spend one session on water systems.  After doing my due diligence which included drinking the water and researching the company, its history and warranty, I have asked Jim Rabb to give you a presentation of the Enagic SD 501  Kangen Water ionizer, which I decided to buy and support. Bring gallon jugs to take home water and bring your questions. Learn about what you drink and that makes up 70% of your body.

 
Week 8 -  Internal  Awareness  – Guest David Korkosz

•  Fermentation – hands-on learning to make sauerkraut and other preserves and take them home with you.
• Discuss the Hippocrates DVD  Internal Awareness:  The basics of the digestive/eliminative system and how to detoxify.
• You might think you know your digestive system until David describes it to you so you won’t forget and answers questions you might have.

 
Week 9 – Bringing it all home  Guest Speaker – Bonnie Sinclair

•  Dessert demo/presentation.  Learn to make a “living food” icecream with no sweetner added and other healthy desserts.
•  Guest speaker:  Bonnie Sinclair,  graduate of Life Force Energy, Hippocrates Health Institute, single mom with 6 year old twins and full-time job practices the “living food” lifestyle recovering from breast cancer
• Discuss Hippocrates DVD – “Bringing it all home: The physical, emotional and spiritual healing process. How to achieve your highest goals in life.  Applying the Hippocrates lifestyle at home.”
• Graduation Ceremony

Week 10  –  Feast – Guest Presenter Joseph Lucier

• Healer and Chef Joe Lucier, will be leading his famous class on Vegan Nutrition, Alkalizing for Health and Live Food Preparation.   
• Joseph Lucier is a Raw Food Chef and Massage Therapist, Tong Ren Healer, as well as founder of the Raw New England Community (RNEC) and has years of extensive training and certification from various leading institutions and centers including Tree of Life AZ, Living Light culinary Arts CA, Living Foods Institute GA, boston School of Herbal Studies MA, Alissa Cohen Chef Training CA and more.