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November 17, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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With Lorenzo Cohen, PhD & Alison Jefferies, MEd
This husband and wife team, authors of Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health, will discuss the current cancer epidemic and how to lower risks of cancer and improve outcomes for those touched by cancer. All of this starts with our lifestyle choices. During this event you will learn specific recommendations for anticancer living and how to put this into practice both as an individual and within a family.
Basing their recommendations on scientific evidence, Dr. Cohen and Ms. Jefferies will discuss:
- healthy eating
- incorporating physical activity into aspects of everyday life
- how to harness and expand on the benefits of one’s social network
- mind-body techniques that can become part of a daily routine to foster inner calm
- the role friends and community networks play in healthy living
People are encouraged to attend as couples or with supportive friends, as lasting change is best accomplished as a team.
Copies of Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health will be available for purchase and signing by the authors (checks and cash only).
Healthy appetizers will be offered from the Smith Center’s own culinary artist, Chef Laura Pole.
About Lorenzo Cohen PhD
LORENZO COHEN, PhD, is the Richard E. Haynes Distinguished Professor in Clinical Cancer Prevention and director of the Integrative Medicine Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is on the board of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health and is a founding member and past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology. Dr. Cohen has published more than 125 scientific articles in top medical journals and has edited two books on integrative medicine for cancer care.
About Alison Jefferies, MEd
ALISON JEFFERIES, MEd, has worked extensively as an educator. She is a former president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty and Family Organization and works closely with Lorenzo Cohen to foster health and wellness in individuals and their communities.
Cohen and Jefferies live in Houston with their three children.
