Whole Foods Market Sixth and Lamar August Activities

Wednesday, August 22nd

Community Giving Day: Benefiting the Mexic-Arte Museum

Join us for a day full of culture, arts and food as we celebrate the Mexic-Arte Museum, the official Mexican and Mexican-American museum of Texas.  Dancers and Musicians will entertain you throughout the day along with kids activities and sculptures to contemplate.  5% of today’s sales will go toward Mexic-Arte A.I.S.D programs such as classes that create school murals, short-story writing and illustration workshops.

 

Saturday, August 25th

Wellness with The Crossings

Let Food be Your Medicine: Market Tour with Deirdre Earls, RD, LD

11:00 a.m. – Noon

Gain practical understanding of how to experience the healing power of food within your busy lifestyle. Learn how food can create and reverse disease along with common threads of success across many healing diets (like macrobiotics, raw foods, pH balance, Dr. Perricone and Dr. Dean Ornish's Diets). Savor the flavor of foods that promote natural healing during a tour of the store and leave inspired to take greater control of your health through good nutrition. Sign-up at the Concierge Desk or call 512-542-2243.
Limited to 12 participants.

 

Whole Body Beauty Extravaganza

Noon – 4:00 p.m.

Please join our beauty experts in our 1st Back to School Beauty Fair!  We will have lots of demos, samples, and complimentary makeovers to jump start your school year.  (You don't have to be a student to review the basics of great skin care!)

 

Thursday, August 30^th

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.                      Cost: $5.00

Life’s Sweet, with Less Sugar with Hannah Wong, RD, LD

Carbohydrates or fruit?  Good carbs and bad carbs?  Honey or organic agave nectar?  Net carbs, fiber, artificial sweetener, sugar alcohol, high-fructose corn syrup…  The list of confusing terms regarding sugar goes on and on.  What your body does with sugar and how to incorporate sugar healthfully into your life will be this tour’s focus.  Our registered dietitian, Hannah, will walk through the store with you, sampling products and talking about sugars: carbs, glucose, stevia, fiber, it’ll all be there! Sign-up at the Concierge Desk or call 512.542.2243.