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Good morning everyone.

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I'm a clinical and holistic nutritionist,

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and I have been for the past eight years.

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And I honestly can't imagine
ever being or doing anything else.

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This is a field that is just
so fascinating to me,

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and I feel like it's the reason
I was put on Earth,

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is to share this information.

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Because I believe so strongly
in using food as medicine,

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and over the last eight years,
I have seen over and over again:

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give the body what it needs
and it will heal itself.

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Take away what it doesn't need
and it will heal itself.

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There's one thing though,
that as I do this work,

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that blows me away every single day,

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and that is how much
our food supply has changed.

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Our food supply has changed
more in the last 50 years

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than it has in the previous 10,000 years.

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So many things have happened,

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and we're going to talk
all about what's happened

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and how to avoid
the landmines, the pitfalls,

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and how to use food
as medicine to really thrive.

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Because as a result
of the changes in our food supply,

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we're dealing with health issues
that we never had to deal with before.

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Our kids are dealing with health issues

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that they've never
had to deal with before.

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We have celiac disease.

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We have autoimmune issues in children

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that never existed before.

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Raging food sensitivities.

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I remember being a kid;

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as a benefit you get to eat
anything you want

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and it really doesn't affect you.

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Kids have really kind of lost
that privelege today

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because of what's happened
to the food supply.

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We've got major digestive disturbances.

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And the one that really gets me
is mental and emotional issues

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like we have never seen before
in children - depression and anxiety.

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And all of that can absolutely
be helped, reversed, eliminated

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through using food as medicine.

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And that's the power in this.

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In using this information,
taking it into your daily life,

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because your children's, our children's
organs are forming now

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to what their health is going to be
in their adult life.

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Their glandular systems,
their digestive systems,

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so what you choose to feed them
and how you feed them

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is laying the foundation
for their adult life,

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for how their health is going to be.

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So this field of holistic nutrition,
it still seems to be very new,

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and an alternative thought pattern.

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So I just wanted to describe
what it actually is.

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It's a philosophy that talks about health
as an interplay between all the systems.

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The mental and the emotional,
the physical and chemical,

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and the spiritual and environmental
aspects of one's health and being.

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How can we separate it?

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For me, I can't understand
how we can separate

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the mind from the body from the spirit.

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It's impossible.

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Sounds like this is a new concept
but it's not, it's ancient wisdom.

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And its time has come
to bring it back into the mainstream

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so that we can achieve wellness
and experience wellness

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on all levels.

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And I'm going to go into
what's happened to the food supply

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and we're going to talk about food,

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but I would be remiss if I didn't start,
especially as a holistic nutritionist,

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with the mental and with the emotional.

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Because in order to make this last
when we make changes in your diet

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and changes in your life,

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you take it away from being a diet
and it becomes a lifestyle.

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And so much of that
is your perspective around food,

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your approach to food.

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How many of us think
of food as a relationship?

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I think we think of food as a habit,

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as something we do, three times,
four times a day, however often we eat.

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But if we can start
to shift that perspective

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and look at food as an approach to life,

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something much bigger and deeper,

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something that can connects us
to the world around us

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and to our families,

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that's the perspective shift
that takes away the diet

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and becomes a lifestyle.

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And that's what we have to talk about.

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For years, I have been teaching
clients to separate

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emotional nourishment
from biological development,

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where we say that food feeds us
and advances us biologically,

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and it keeps us alive,

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but it shouldn't nourish us emotionally.

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We shouldn't turn to food
when we're stressed,

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and when we're tired
and when we're lonely,

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but we teach them, turn to primary foods -
your sense of spiritual connection,

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your relationships,
exercise that you enjoy,

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creative outlets.

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And that philosophy worked for me
for a really long time,

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but then most recently,
I really started thinking about it.

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Is that complete?

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Is that possible even,

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to separate emotional nourishment
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Is it honest?

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And the answer
that I came to was 'no'.

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And actually, it dawned on me,

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and I felt a little ashamed
that I hadn't come to it sooner,

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because I am 100 percent Italian.

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How can I separate emotional nourishment
from biological development?

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My friends knew during
my childhood and adolescence

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not to call me on Sundays,
I couldn't be with them,

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because, you know, we were eating.

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That's what we were doing on Sunday.

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And we would be at the table
from 12 to 6:00 or 7:00 at night

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and that was a tradition,
that was a ritual,

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it was a family ceremony.

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So food, it's not just for our bodies,

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it's also for our mind and our emotion.

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And it's a way to connect to so much more
than just the actual food that we eat.

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Now I've been calling this
the form and function of food, right?

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So food is more
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there'a form to it.

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It's the difference between
a house and a home.

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A house is a structure
that will protect us from the elements.

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But a home is a place
where we store our memories

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and our emotions, and the things
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the place that we go
for solace and nourishment.

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You can ask any morning coffee drinker -

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How many of you
are morning coffee drinkers?

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Right?

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It's not just about
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it's about the ritual of it,
it's about the ceremony of it.

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I see clients for the first session
and they say,

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"Don't take away my coffee.
I'm not coming back if you do."

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It's their weapon to the world.

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It's the security blanket
to go out into the world

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and have this warm cup
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your little buddy, your friend,
at your desk by your side.

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It's so much more...

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It's so much more
than just that morning coffee.

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I also relate - it's the difference
between clothes and fashion.

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Clothes are so much more
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to cover our bodies
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They are a tool for self-expression,
for creativity, for individuality.

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It's fun to dress according
to how you feel, right?

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It's a way to let the world know
who you are, how you feel,

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and how things are working.

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So if we can have this approach to food,
it lays a foundation,

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because I can talk all day long
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and all of that stuff,

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but it's not going to be a finishing work,
unless the perspective has shifted.

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So we get that foundation in place,
and then we move on to the physical,

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and to the chemical.

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That's what we're going to talk about:

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challenges in our food supply.

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And we have a lot of them.

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Because in the last 50 years, our food
supply has changed so dramatically.

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The reason I'm telling you this
is not to incite doom and gloom,

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but rather, empowerment,

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because awareness is the first step
towards changing anything.

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And the reason I'm standing up here
is because I am certain,

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I will tell you, so many of us
have no idea how amazing we can feel,

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how many extra levels
of wellness that there are

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than we're currently
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First major challenge
is soil depletion.

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Do you believe that we have
to eat three apples today

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to equal the nutrient value
of one apple in 1940?

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How do you like them apples?

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(Laughter)

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85 percent soil depletion is what
we're dealing with in North America.

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Less minerals in the soil - weaker plants.

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Weaker plants - we need
to spray them with more chemicals.

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We need minerals for so many
functions within the body.

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We need minerals
for our bones, for our teeth.

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We need minerals so that
our nervous system can function properly.

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There are nutritional
roots to mental illness.

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So much of it lies
in mineral deficiency.

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And we need minerals
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The body doesn't work without minerals.

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This next one is the one
that really gets me.

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Hormones and antibiotics
in our meat supply.

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So what I want to know
is when did it become okay

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for it to be looked at as the mainstream
to eat polluted meat?

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When did that become normal,

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and guiding people towards eating organic,
free-range, all these buzz words

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that seem on the fringe - we're just
guiding them to eat real food, that's all.

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Antibiotics - when we're eating
a low dose of antibiotics

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every time we eat out from these animals
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in conditions that really no living thing
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of course they have
to give them antibiotics

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because there's not enough room for them,
and there's disease that comes up.

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And the antibiotics that we're eating
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the good bacteria in our gut.

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And digestion is the cornerstone
of your health.

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If that's not the foundation
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nothing else is going to work
and everything else will be a band-aid.

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So taking antibiotics, a low dose,
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these animal meats, eggs, milk -
that's weakening our immune system.

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And then we have hormones.

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I think every other woman in the room
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it's hard enough to keep
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do we ever need to have anything else

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that's going to start
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In March, the New York Times
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and the title was:
"Puberty at Age 10: The New 'Normal'?"

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I'm not okay with that.

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Girls are developing three to five years
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largely due, in part, to the consumption

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of added growth hormones
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So if there's one thing to remember
from what I have to say,

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and there's one thing you need to take,
and you're going to shift your budget

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somewhere else with your food,
it's towards clean animal products.

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How may of you know what a GMO is?

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Good.

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Almost everyone.

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Genetically modified organisms

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are organisms where they take
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and they inject it into the DNA
of another species in a lab.

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And that creates a combination of plants
that have not existed in nature before

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and also do not exist in traditional
cross-breeding methods.

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So what we have with GMOs
is Frankenfood, in my opinion.

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Corn, soy, canola, dairy -

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these are the foods
that are the most genetically modified

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and in 30 countries around the world,

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and all the countries
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there's severe limitation and restrictions
or outright bans on GMOs.

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That's what I mean.

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It's not that the food supply
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but the raw materials
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have changed so dramatically,
and we need to avoid them.

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Especially when we're eating out,

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restaurants are using genetically
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because it's not that expensive,

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and we're not getting
the nutrients out of our meal.

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We're getting maybe 50 percent
of the nutrients out of our meal

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when we're consuming GMOs.

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There's lots of chemicals
that we're contending with.

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The FDA has 2,700 intentional
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FD&C yellow number 5
and yellow number 6.

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We've got artificial sweeteners, MSG -

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we really have to start to look at that.

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And bath and body products
is the other part of the hormonal equation

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because there's a huge opportunity
to disrupt your endocrine system

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by what you put on your body.

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And I just want you to think about
the skin as the largest absorbative organ.

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So if you wouldn't put it in your body,

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a good rule of thumb
is don't put it on your body.

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And this one I could talk
about all day long

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because this is how I got into nutrition.

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There is no doubt in my mind
I would have diabetes right now

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and I would probably be 50 pounds
heavier than what I am

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had I not found this field,

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because I used to eat
a package of Sour Patch Kids

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and a package of Swedish fish
every day for lunch.

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I was a total sugar junkie.

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And we don't have
to talk too much about sugar

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because I think everyone knows
that it's not good for you at this point.

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But I just want to point out:

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How did it become okay to drink
a soda the size of your head?

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(Laughter)

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I don't know how that happened.

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Clients say, "I only drink
one soda a day."

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I have to say, "But what is it?"

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"It's a Big Gulp, but that's okay,

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it's from, like, lunch,
all the way to the end of the day."

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Right?

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One soda today is the equivalent
of 18 in 1955.

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The solution is simple.

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That's a simple solution
to changing things.

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But you need to know
what real food is in order to change it.

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A chicken breast - a client will say,
"It's just a chicken breast" -

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isn't a chicken breast any more.

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We need to know,
what did the chicken eat?

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How was it raised, how was it fed?

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So that's why we have
to challenge the food supply,

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so you can discern what's
real food and what's not real food.

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You can be part of the solution.

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Local, organically grown
fruits and vegetables.

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We have Community Supported Agriculture -
farms that we can buy our food from.

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We're so blessed to live in this area.

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You buy local, organically
grown fruits and vegetables,

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you don't have to eat three apples,
you can just eat one,

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because the nutrients will be there,

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the minerals will be there,

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because of the way that they're using
traditional farming techniques.

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Wild fish and pastured animal products.

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'Pastured' - such a buzzword these days.

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It just means the animal ate
what it wanted to eat in nature,

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and lived how it should have lived,

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then you're getting
nutrients from that food.

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Choosing gluten-free grains -
that's really important.

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Gluten sensitivity is huge.

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Staging beans, legumes
and root vegetables throughout your diet,

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will slowly release the glucose
in your system,

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so you never really get those cravings
for the white stuff or for the sugar.

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I'm such a fan of healthy fats and oils.

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There's nothing wrong
with grass-fed butter, coconut oil,

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avocados, all these things
are so important.

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And keep the sweetness,
but lose the sugar.

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Learn about sugar alternatives.

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There's so many of them out there.

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Coconut sugar - looks and tastes
exactly like brown sugar.

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It doesn't affect you nearly 
like regular sugar does.

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Stevia has no effect on blood sugar;
it's 100 times sweeter than sugar.

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We can still enjoy sweet treats.

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We don't have to have this approach
of denial or deprivation,

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it's just upgrading.

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And we're creating rituals, traditions,
having that anchor around food.

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Mindful eating, not being
a stand-at-the-kitchen-counter eater,

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or eat-in-your-car eater.

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It's eating for true nourishment.

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This is not a new concept.

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Two-and-a-half thousand years ago,
Hippocrates said,

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"Let food be thy medicine,
and medicine be thy food."

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So if I leave you with one thought,

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it's that healthcare reform,
it doesn't start in Washington,

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it starts in our kitchen.

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We need to vote with our dollars
when we go to the grocery store

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and that's voting
for a cleaner food supply.

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My favorite quote
by Margaret Mead states,

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"Never doubt that a small commited group
of individuals can change the world;

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indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has."

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Thank you.
(Applause)