Oregon Cancer Foundation
The Oregon Cancer Foundation empowers, strengthens, and sustains those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support, and financial assistance.
Positive Community Kitchen
Positive Community Kitchen is inspiring community wellness through food. Every week, volunteer teen and adult chefs and gardeners come together to prepare organic healing meals for community members fighting a life-threatening illness.
Eugene YMCA
The LIVESTRONG program at the Eugene Family YMCA is a 12-week exercise program offered at no cost to help cancer survivors improve their strength and physical fitness, diminsh the severity of therapy side-effects, develop supportive relationships, and improve their quality of life.
Camp Kesem
Kesem is a nationwide community, driven by passionate college student leaders, that supports children through and beyond their parents cancer. Kesem is the largest national organization dedicated to supporting children impacted by a parents cancer, at no cost to families. Our innovative and fun-filled programs provide children with peers who understand their unique needs, and create long-lasting impact. Summer camps for 2019 are accepting applications now.
NON GMO Project
Finding foods that are not genetically modified (non-GMO’s) just got much easier. There is some preliminary proof that GMO’s may be dangerous to our health and that of coming generations.
There is little proof of safety, so at the very least we are undergoing a vast experiment on the outcome of ingesting genetically modified foods. Most of the corn, soy and cotton grown in the US is GMO-based. It is in the animal feed and throughout the food industry. Go to this website and download the app for an up to date look at GMO foods.
Old Ways
Oldways is a non-profit consortium of academics in nutrition who aim to bring native/ethic diet education to the public. While the Mediterranean diet has indisputably the most evidence in medical literature on its health benefits, it is really most relevant for persons of European descent. Other continents and cultures have native diets that are more relevant for descendants from those geographic areas. Oldways continues to create food pyramids that vary by ethnicity. They also have recipes and even 28-day guidebooks for various diets to jump start your nutritional journey.
Local Harvest
Ideally, we would all eat local, organic and in season. Where do we even begin? This site lists Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s) across the United States. Often, getting to know the ranchers, farmers and markets in your area is the most reliable and economic way to eat well.