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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute presents "Fighting Cancer with Your Fork"

BOSTON– On Jan. 29, Wellesley resident Stacy Kennedy, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, a senior nutritionist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, presented “Fighting Cancer with Your Fork,” a culinary guide to wellness and cancer prevention, as part of an interactive demonstration and tasting at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Seventy top fundraisers of the 2013 Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk known as Pacesetters, fundraising champions who last year raised more than $1,500 each, were in attendance. During the event, Kennedy shared the latest information on diet and cancer survivorship.  Following the presentation, guests dined on food selected from Dana-Farber’s free Nutrition App, available for the iPhone and Android, that provides recipes and nutritional information that can be searched by cancer patients based on their needs. Pacesetters also toured Dana-Farber, the very institution they support through their efforts walking in and raising money for the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk.  For more information about the 26th annual of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk, which is set for Sunday, Sept. 21, visit www.JimmyFundWalk.org or call (866) 531-9255.

Featured from left to right: Karen Shecter, of Newton, an eight-time Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk participant and team captain of Team Lenny, a group of walkers who walk and raise money in honor of Lenny Zakim, one of Boston’s most prominent civil rights leaders who was treated at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for multiple myeloma, a rare type of bone marrow cancer, before succumbing to the disease in 1999; Suzanne Fountain, director of The Jimmy Fund; Stacy Kennedy, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, a senior nutritionist at Dana-Farber; and Joyce Zakim, of Newton, the wife of the late Lenny Zakim, and a 12-time Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk participant.

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