PMC Heart and Vascular Institute hosted the Pike County Extension Service Office to offer a heart-healthy recipe cooking class on June 5.
Pikeville Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Institute hosted a ‘Cook It Up’ cooking class on June 5.
The event was held in the PMC Cardiac Rehabilitation Center and was presented by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
Chelsea Workman, Family and Consumer Science agent at the Pike County Extension Office, prepared the recipe.
“Today we’re fixing Cowboy Skillet, which features turkey sausage, corn, brown rice, bell peppers, onions,” Workman said. “This gives us our whole grain with the rice, our veggies and our protein with the turkey sausage. It will be a really nutritious and well-balanced meal.”
Dr. Chas Reynolds, with PMC’s Heart and Vascular Institute, said good nutrition goes along with a patient’s rehabilitation process.
“We all want to eat healthy and that goes hand in hand with our rehabilitation efforts for heart and vascular patients,” Reynolds said. “This is really a good opportunity for us all to learn.”
Many of those in attendance were recently or continue to be patients following heart and vascular issues.
“We’re really excited to be offering this program to not only our patients but to the general public,” PMC Associate Vice President Shannon Deskins said. “We hope to make this a continuing program with the UK extension service office, perhaps once a month.”
