Let’s tip our healthy chef’s hat to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona! Their sponsorship of Gregory’s Fresh Market Healthy Cooking Classes and Nutrition Education Programs has made healthier the lives of 915 seniors. These seniors participated in 26 classes in independent locations across the Greater Phoenix valley.
BCBSAZ has turned the vision of Gregory’s Fresh Market into reality: transforming and enriching communities by delivering a mobile, healthy lifestyles service program. Valuable lessons were not only positively received by the attendees through our on-site farmer’s markets, nutrition education, and fitness stops but also put into action, resulting in seniors’
- realizing that consumption of fast food is linked to lower diet quality and obesity in seniors
- ability to prepare quick and simple meals at home
- achieving a reduction in consumption of saturated fats
- minimizing inflammation and dehydration
On behalf of the team at Gregory’s Fresh Market, we send heartfelt thanks for assisting us in fulfilling Diana Gregory Outreach Services fundamental mission: to ensure no senior and their families in our community go to bed hungry.”
As for those 915 new, healthy chefs, this sample testimonial, one of many we received from seniors as an outcome of the Healthy Cooking Classes, sums it up: “On behalf of the seniors at Tolleson Senior Center, we thank Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona for sponsoring classes that show seniors how to cook healthy meals with fresh fruits and vegetables.” (Ann at Tolleson Senior Center).