(March 1, 2022) Long Branch, Lakewood, NJ – RWJBarnabas Health facilities Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus will host a series of free virtual community events throughout the month of March in recognition of National Nutrition Month. The events will be hosted by Jennifer Klein, MS, a registered dietitian at both Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus and will include weekly cooking demonstrations featuring a variety of cuisines as well as a series of lectures exploring a range of nutrition-related topics.
In keeping with the 2022 National Nutrition Month theme, “Celebrate a World of Flavors,” the cooking demonstrations will feature a range of different cuisines including popular Korean, Indian, Irish, and Spanish meals. Participants will have the opportunity to follow along as Klein prepares an array of dishes, including bibimbap, shepherd’s pie, Spanish tapas, and masoor dal tadka. Additionally, a “kids cook-along” event will provide step-by-step instructions for kids to prepare rainbow fruit kabobs. Rounding out the cooking demonstrations for the month will be a “family cook-along” where families will be guided through a simple cooking class featuring flatbread pizzas and veggie cups. The full schedule of demonstrations includes:
- Korean Cuisine: Thursday, March 3rd – 11am – 12pm
- Indian Cuisine: Thursday, March 10th – 11am – 12pm
- Luck of the Irish: Shepherd’s Pie: Thursday, March 17th – 11am – 12pm
- Spanish Cuisine: Thursday, March 24th – 11am – 12pm
- Kids Cook Along: Rainbow Fruit Kabobs: Thursday, March 24th – 4pm – 5pm
- Family Cook Along: Flatbread Pizza Party!: Wednesday, March 30th – 6:30pm – 7:15pm
In addition to the cooking demonstrations, Klein will shed light on a variety of nutrition-related topics throughout the month, ranging from promoting healthy bones, the importance of fiber for colon health, nutrition 101, nutrition for healthy aging, and perinatal nutrition. Additionally, to recognize Registered Dietitian Day on March 9th, Ms. Klein will host an “Ask the RD” interactive Q&A session where she will answer attendees’ nutrition questions. The full series of National Nutrition Month lectures includes:
- Healthy Bones: Tuesday, March 8th – 11am -12pm
- Registered Dietitian Day: Ask the RD: Wednesday, March 9th – 12pm – 1pm
- Fiber Is Your Friend: Colon Health: Tuesday, March 15th – 11am – 12pm
- Nutrition 101: Celebrating National Nutrition Month: Tuesday, March 22nd – 11am – 12pm
- Women’s Health: Nutrition for Healthy Aging: Tuesday, March 29th – 11am – 12pm
- Women’s Health: Perinatal Nutrition: Wednesday, March 30th – 12pm – 1pm
“Nutrition is critically important to overall health and well-being. making it imperative that adults and children of all ages take time out of their busy schedules to learn about how to prepare healthy, nourishing foods and the benefits they have on the body,” Klein says. “We are thrilled to offer a comprehensive series of interactive, educational and fun cooking demonstrations and lectures in honor of National Nutrition Month to help provide our community with the tools, resources and knowledge they need to embark on or continue their nutrition journeys in the month of March and beyond.”
To register, visit rwjbh.org/events and search for your program. Please contact Jennifer Klein at Jennifer.Klein@rwjbh.org with any questions.
About Monmouth Medical Center
Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) facility, along with The Unterberg Children’s Hospital, is a regional teaching campus for Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As the first hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties, Monmouth Medical Center offers the most experienced surgeons in robotics and other minimally invasive procedures as well as bariatric and joint and spine surgery. Monmouth Medical Center delivers more babies annually than all other hospitals in Monmouth and Ocean counties combined and the fourth most in the state. The hospital offers access to the region’s top cardiologists and the award-winning, nationally recognized RWJBarnabas Heart Centers. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has conferred Magnet® recognition for Monmouth Medical Center, one of just 509 U.S. health care organizations out of more than 6,300 U.S. hospitals to achieve Magnet recognition. It is the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties to consistently receive an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization has been named a Leapfrog Top Teaching Hospital for a third time. RWJBarnabas Health and Monmouth Medical Center, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center — brings a world class team of researchers and specialists to fight alongside patients, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials.
About Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus
Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus, located in Lakewood, is a fully accredited acute care hospital dedicated to providing the finest medical and health care services to the residents of Ocean and Monmouth counties. An affiliate of the RWJBarnabas Health system, Monmouth South is a sister hospital to Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch. This partnership enhances patients’ access to emergency care, rehabilitation programs, health education, oncology services, geriatric medicine, and more. Monmouth South is the only hospital in the region to provide private rooms on all of its inpatient units, providing an environment more conducive to healing quickly. For more information about Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus, visit www.rwjbh.org/monmouthsouth.
Contact: Elizabeth Brennan
732-923-5005
elizabeth.brennan@rwjbh.org