Appointments are back with “Enjoy prevention, health is on your plate” a cycle of events promoted by the Breast Unit of the Local Health Authority of Piacenza to raise awareness among Piacenza women of the importance of correct nutrition to stay healthy and prevent the main pathologies.
For this 2024 edition, healthcare professionals make use of the precious collaboration of Coldiretti Piacenza and Movimento Donne Impresa: the meetings take place in the spaces of the Campagna Amica covered market in via Farnesiana, 17 in Piacenza. There are three appointments on the agenda and they benefit from the patronage of the Municipality of Piacenza and the Technical-Scientific Association of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics of Italian Dietitians (Asand), in collaboration with the Amop and Armonia associations.
It starts on Wednesday 15 May, from 6pm to 7.30pm. The format is the one already successfully tested in previous editions. The chef and cooking teacher Caterina Petrosino offers a recipe that is prepared live. During the preparation phase of the dish, doctors and health professionals provide important advice to those present. Thanks to the partnership with Coldiretti, in this edition great attention is also paid to zero km foods, of the territory, to encourage conscious consumption of local products while respecting seasonality and consequently the environment. We start, in the first meeting on May 15th, with honey. In the second appointment, scheduled for May 31st (in the same time slot, from 6 to 7.30 pm), we talk about seasonal vegetables. The third episode of the mini cycle is scheduled for Saturday 22 June, this time from 10.30 to 12 and will be dedicated to flours.
“Our objective is to spend a pleasant time together with women, taking the opportunity to inform them about some fundamental issues for preventing breast cancer and, more generally, for living healthy”. The first meeting will feature Jessica Rolla, a nutrition expert, and dietician Elisa Carrai.
“Numerous scientific studies highlight an association between nutrition and cancer – continues the specialist – therefore adopting a balanced diet is important for the prevention of breast cancer. Excess weight represents a recognized risk factor that every woman can act on and modify. Through a Mediterranean-type diet and regular physical activity, the metabolic and hormonal structure can be improved: therefore, it is possible to reduce the risk of developing various pathologies or, in the case of breast cancer, even of recurrence”.
The director of Coldiretti Piacenza, Roberto Gallizioli, also underlines the importance of the proposal: “We are happy to host these events and to make, through the high quality of the products of the agricultural companies that we are proud to represent, a contribution to prevention. The covered market of Campagna Amica confirms itself not only as a place for shopping and consuming fresh and seasonal products, but a real laboratory of proposals that revolve around good food with many cultural, social, solidarity and aggregation”.