WEBVTT 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:13.438 Good morning everyone. 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:18.746 I'm a clinical and holistic nutritionist, 00:00:19.131 --> 00:00:21.870 and I have been for the past eight years. 00:00:22.517 --> 00:00:27.238 And I honestly can't imagine ever being or doing anything else. 00:00:28.070 --> 00:00:31.963 This is a field that is just so fascinating to me, 00:00:31.963 --> 00:00:34.682 and I feel like it's the reason I was put on Earth, 00:00:34.682 --> 00:00:36.742 is to share this information. 00:00:36.742 --> 00:00:41.257 Because I believe so strongly in using food as medicine, 00:00:41.514 --> 00:00:46.471 and over the last eight years, I have seen over and over again: 00:00:46.471 --> 00:00:50.413 give the body what it needs and it will heal itself. 00:00:50.873 --> 00:00:54.599 Take away what it doesn't need and it will heal itself. 00:00:56.789 --> 00:00:59.703 There's one thing though, that as I do this work, 00:00:59.703 --> 00:01:02.694 that blows me away every single day, 00:01:03.425 --> 00:01:07.771 and that is how much our food supply has changed. 00:01:09.293 --> 00:01:13.343 Our food supply has changed more in the last 50 years 00:01:13.343 --> 00:01:17.163 than it has in the previous 10,000 years. 00:01:18.152 --> 00:01:20.221 So many things have happened, 00:01:20.221 --> 00:01:23.931 and we're going to talk all about what's happened 00:01:23.931 --> 00:01:27.523 and how to avoid the landmines, the pitfalls, 00:01:27.523 --> 00:01:30.820 and how to use food as medicine to really thrive. 00:01:31.741 --> 00:01:34.564 Because as a result of the changes in our food supply, 00:01:34.564 --> 00:01:38.564 we're dealing with health issues that we never had to deal with before. 00:01:38.564 --> 00:01:41.112 Our kids are dealing with health issues 00:01:41.112 --> 00:01:43.455 that they've never had to deal with before. 00:01:44.471 --> 00:01:46.713 We have celiac disease. 00:01:47.295 --> 00:01:50.245 We have autoimmune issues in children 00:01:51.081 --> 00:01:52.961 that never existed before. 00:01:53.363 --> 00:01:55.501 Raging food sensitivities. 00:01:55.501 --> 00:01:58.263 I remember being a kid; 00:01:58.263 --> 00:02:00.691 as a benefit you get to eat anything you want 00:02:00.691 --> 00:02:02.705 and it really doesn't affect you. 00:02:03.165 --> 00:02:05.591 Kids have really kind of lost that privelege today 00:02:05.591 --> 00:02:07.763 because of what's happened to the food supply. 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.565 We've got major digestive disturbances. 00:02:11.247 --> 00:02:15.543 And the one that really gets me is mental and emotional issues 00:02:15.543 --> 00:02:20.611 like we have never seen before in children - depression and anxiety. 00:02:21.234 --> 00:02:27.496 And all of that can absolutely be helped, reversed, eliminated 00:02:28.418 --> 00:02:30.670 through using food as medicine. 00:02:31.173 --> 00:02:32.935 And that's the power in this. 00:02:33.381 --> 00:02:37.673 In using this information, taking it into your daily life, 00:02:37.673 --> 00:02:42.614 because your children's, our children's organs are forming now 00:02:42.614 --> 00:02:46.141 to what their health is going to be in their adult life. 00:02:46.575 --> 00:02:49.303 Their glandular systems, their digestive systems, 00:02:49.303 --> 00:02:53.012 so what you choose to feed them and how you feed them 00:02:53.012 --> 00:02:56.143 is laying the foundation for their adult life, 00:02:56.143 --> 00:02:58.493 for how their health is going to be. 00:03:00.304 --> 00:03:06.352 So this field of holistic nutrition, it still seems to be very new, 00:03:06.995 --> 00:03:09.745 and an alternative thought pattern. 00:03:10.634 --> 00:03:13.557 So I just wanted to describe what it actually is. 00:03:13.557 --> 00:03:19.204 It's a philosophy that talks about health as an interplay between all the systems. 00:03:19.204 --> 00:03:23.432 The mental and the emotional, the physical and chemical, 00:03:23.432 --> 00:03:27.671 and the spiritual and environmental aspects of one's health and being. 00:03:28.838 --> 00:03:30.113 How can we separate it? 00:03:30.113 --> 00:03:32.391 For me, I can't understand how we can separate 00:03:32.391 --> 00:03:35.196 the mind from the body from the spirit. 00:03:35.989 --> 00:03:37.527 It's impossible. 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.053 Sounds like this is a new concept but it's not, it's ancient wisdom. 00:03:42.053 --> 00:03:46.096 And its time has come to bring it back into the mainstream 00:03:46.096 --> 00:03:50.611 so that we can achieve wellness and experience wellness 00:03:50.611 --> 00:03:52.034 on all levels. 00:03:53.194 --> 00:03:56.504 And I'm going to go into what's happened to the food supply 00:03:56.504 --> 00:03:58.241 and we're going to talk about food, 00:03:58.241 --> 00:04:03.232 but I would be remiss if I didn't start, especially as a holistic nutritionist, 00:04:03.232 --> 00:04:06.066 with the mental and with the emotional. 00:04:07.171 --> 00:04:10.847 Because in order to make this last when we make changes in your diet 00:04:10.847 --> 00:04:12.266 and changes in your life, 00:04:12.266 --> 00:04:16.806 you take it away from being a diet and it becomes a lifestyle. 00:04:16.806 --> 00:04:19.982 And so much of that is your perspective around food, 00:04:19.982 --> 00:04:21.825 your approach to food. 00:04:22.249 --> 00:04:25.411 How many of us think of food as a relationship? 00:04:26.221 --> 00:04:29.444 I think we think of food as a habit, 00:04:29.444 --> 00:04:33.865 as something we do, three times, four times a day, however often we eat. 00:04:33.865 --> 00:04:36.003 But if we can start to shift that perspective 00:04:36.003 --> 00:04:39.275 and look at food as an approach to life, 00:04:39.275 --> 00:04:41.535 something much bigger and deeper, 00:04:41.535 --> 00:04:44.298 something that can connects us to the world around us 00:04:44.298 --> 00:04:46.091 and to our families, 00:04:46.091 --> 00:04:49.435 that's the perspective shift that takes away the diet 00:04:49.435 --> 00:04:51.810 and becomes a lifestyle. 00:04:51.810 --> 00:04:53.616 And that's what we have to talk about. 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:59.636 For years, I have been teaching clients to separate 00:04:59.636 --> 00:05:03.729 emotional nourishment from biological development, 00:05:03.729 --> 00:05:08.369 where we say that food feeds us and advances us biologically, 00:05:08.369 --> 00:05:10.080 and it keeps us alive, 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:12.402 but it shouldn't nourish us emotionally. 00:05:12.658 --> 00:05:15.785 We shouldn't turn to food when we're stressed, 00:05:15.785 --> 00:05:17.957 and when we're tired and when we're lonely, 00:05:17.957 --> 00:05:22.909 but we teach them, turn to primary foods - your sense of spiritual connection, 00:05:22.909 --> 00:05:27.205 your relationships, exercise that you enjoy, 00:05:27.205 --> 00:05:29.033 creative outlets. 00:05:29.565 --> 00:05:34.250 And that philosophy worked for me for a really long time, 00:05:34.250 --> 00:05:38.641 but then most recently, I really started thinking about it. 00:05:38.641 --> 00:05:40.243 Is that complete? 00:05:40.582 --> 00:05:42.583 Is that possible even, 00:05:42.583 --> 00:05:46.313 to separate emotional nourishment from biological development? 00:05:47.664 --> 00:05:49.344 Is it honest? 00:05:50.034 --> 00:05:53.189 And the answer that I came to was 'no'. 00:05:54.181 --> 00:05:57.640 And actually, it dawned on me, 00:05:57.640 --> 00:06:02.765 and I felt a little ashamed that I hadn't come to it sooner, 00:06:04.514 --> 00:06:08.053 because I am 100 percent Italian. 00:06:10.034 --> 00:06:15.621 How can I separate emotional nourishment from biological development? 00:06:16.331 --> 00:06:19.910 My friends knew during my childhood and adolescence 00:06:19.910 --> 00:06:23.011 not to call me on Sundays, I couldn't be with them, 00:06:23.011 --> 00:06:24.784 because, you know, we were eating. 00:06:24.784 --> 00:06:26.605 That's what we were doing on Sunday. 00:06:26.605 --> 00:06:30.934 And we would be at the table from 12 to 6:00 or 7:00 at night 00:06:30.934 --> 00:06:33.932 and that was a tradition, that was a ritual, 00:06:33.932 --> 00:06:35.992 it was a family ceremony. 00:06:36.818 --> 00:06:40.045 So food, it's not just for our bodies, 00:06:40.752 --> 00:06:43.851 it's also for our mind and our emotion. 00:06:43.851 --> 00:06:50.033 And it's a way to connect to so much more than just the actual food that we eat. 00:06:51.114 --> 00:06:55.794 Now I've been calling this the form and function of food, right? 00:06:55.794 --> 00:06:59.881 So food is more than its physiological function, 00:06:59.881 --> 00:07:01.251 there'a form to it. 00:07:01.251 --> 00:07:04.446 It's the difference between a house and a home. 00:07:04.446 --> 00:07:09.126 A house is a structure that will protect us from the elements. 00:07:09.126 --> 00:07:12.813 But a home is a place where we store our memories 00:07:12.813 --> 00:07:17.056 and our emotions, and the things that are most dear to us, 00:07:17.056 --> 00:07:20.831 the place that we go for solace and nourishment. 00:07:22.730 --> 00:07:25.482 You can ask any morning coffee drinker - 00:07:25.995 --> 00:07:28.484 How many of you are morning coffee drinkers? 00:07:28.850 --> 00:07:29.960 Right? 00:07:29.960 --> 00:07:32.807 It's not just about getting a cup of coffee, 00:07:32.807 --> 00:07:35.759 it's about the ritual of it, it's about the ceremony of it. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.063 I see clients for the first session and they say, 00:07:38.063 --> 00:07:41.990 "Don't take away my coffee. I'm not coming back if you do." 00:07:41.990 --> 00:07:44.675 It's their weapon to the world. 00:07:44.675 --> 00:07:47.356 It's the security blanket to go out into the world 00:07:47.356 --> 00:07:50.954 and have this warm cup of something that nourishes you, 00:07:50.954 --> 00:07:54.299 your little buddy, your friend, at your desk by your side. 00:07:54.714 --> 00:07:56.463 It's so much more... 00:07:57.763 --> 00:08:00.815 It's so much more than just that morning coffee. 00:08:02.202 --> 00:08:06.239 I also relate - it's the difference between clothes and fashion. 00:08:07.244 --> 00:08:09.657 Clothes are so much more than their function 00:08:09.657 --> 00:08:11.798 to cover our bodies and to keep us warm. 00:08:11.798 --> 00:08:17.288 They are a tool for self-expression, for creativity, for individuality. 00:08:17.288 --> 00:08:20.598 It's fun to dress according to how you feel, right? 00:08:20.598 --> 00:08:23.821 It's a way to let the world know who you are, how you feel, 00:08:23.821 --> 00:08:26.192 and how things are working. 00:08:26.599 --> 00:08:31.720 So if we can have this approach to food, it lays a foundation, 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:38.110 because I can talk all day long about greens, and water, and grains, 00:08:38.110 --> 00:08:40.023 and all of that stuff, 00:08:40.023 --> 00:08:44.851 but it's not going to be a finishing work, unless the perspective has shifted. 00:08:45.310 --> 00:08:50.209 So we get that foundation in place, and then we move on to the physical, 00:08:50.209 --> 00:08:51.726 and to the chemical. 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.661 That's what we're going to talk about: 00:08:54.661 --> 00:08:57.173 challenges in our food supply. 00:08:57.706 --> 00:08:59.951 And we have a lot of them. 00:08:59.951 --> 00:09:04.630 Because in the last 50 years, our food supply has changed so dramatically. 00:09:04.630 --> 00:09:08.406 The reason I'm telling you this is not to incite doom and gloom, 00:09:08.406 --> 00:09:10.281 but rather, empowerment, 00:09:10.281 --> 00:09:14.652 because awareness is the first step towards changing anything. 00:09:14.652 --> 00:09:18.552 And the reason I'm standing up here is because I am certain, 00:09:18.552 --> 00:09:24.483 I will tell you, so many of us have no idea how amazing we can feel, 00:09:24.483 --> 00:09:28.141 how many extra levels of wellness that there are 00:09:28.141 --> 00:09:30.800 than we're currently experiencing right now. 00:09:32.482 --> 00:09:35.833 First major challenge is soil depletion. 00:09:36.777 --> 00:09:40.671 Do you believe that we have to eat three apples today 00:09:40.671 --> 00:09:44.702 to equal the nutrient value of one apple in 1940? 00:09:46.324 --> 00:09:48.105 How do you like them apples? 00:09:48.105 --> 00:09:49.683 (Laughter) 00:09:49.683 --> 00:09:55.752 85 percent soil depletion is what we're dealing with in North America. 00:09:56.415 --> 00:09:59.692 Less minerals in the soil - weaker plants. 00:10:00.397 --> 00:10:04.084 Weaker plants - we need to spray them with more chemicals. 00:10:05.292 --> 00:10:08.795 We need minerals for so many functions within the body. 00:10:08.795 --> 00:10:12.363 We need minerals for our bones, for our teeth. 00:10:12.363 --> 00:10:17.055 We need minerals so that our nervous system can function properly. 00:10:17.055 --> 00:10:20.335 There are nutritional roots to mental illness. 00:10:20.335 --> 00:10:23.225 So much of it lies in mineral deficiency. 00:10:23.613 --> 00:10:27.486 And we need minerals for our metabolic process to function. 00:10:28.208 --> 00:10:31.202 The body doesn't work without minerals. 00:10:33.005 --> 00:10:35.532 This next one is the one that really gets me. 00:10:36.708 --> 00:10:40.426 Hormones and antibiotics in our meat supply. 00:10:41.101 --> 00:10:44.363 So what I want to know is when did it become okay 00:10:44.363 --> 00:10:48.963 for it to be looked at as the mainstream to eat polluted meat? 00:10:49.967 --> 00:10:51.827 When did that become normal, 00:10:51.827 --> 00:10:57.247 and guiding people towards eating organic, free-range, all these buzz words 00:10:57.247 --> 00:11:02.537 that seem on the fringe - we're just guiding them to eat real food, that's all. 00:11:03.187 --> 00:11:06.872 Antibiotics - when we're eating a low dose of antibiotics 00:11:06.872 --> 00:11:11.095 every time we eat out from these animals that are raised in feed lots, 00:11:11.095 --> 00:11:15.520 in conditions that really no living thing should have to be subjected to, 00:11:15.520 --> 00:11:17.575 of course they have to give them antibiotics 00:11:17.575 --> 00:11:22.545 because there's not enough room for them, and there's disease that comes up. 00:11:22.545 --> 00:11:26.474 And the antibiotics that we're eating are killing the good bugs, 00:11:26.474 --> 00:11:29.355 the good bacteria in our gut. 00:11:29.355 --> 00:11:32.441 And digestion is the cornerstone of your health. 00:11:32.441 --> 00:11:35.171 If that's not the foundation and that's not working, 00:11:35.171 --> 00:11:38.546 nothing else is going to work and everything else will be a band-aid. 00:11:39.205 --> 00:11:43.533 So taking antibiotics, a low dose, when we eat out, 00:11:43.533 --> 00:11:49.451 these animal meats, eggs, milk - that's weakening our immune system. 00:11:50.709 --> 00:11:52.451 And then we have hormones. 00:11:52.451 --> 00:11:55.693 I think every other woman in the room would agree with me when I say, 00:11:55.693 --> 00:11:58.992 it's hard enough to keep our hormones balanced, 00:11:58.992 --> 00:12:01.169 do we ever need to have anything else 00:12:01.169 --> 00:12:03.889 that's going to start to throw them off course? 00:12:05.439 --> 00:12:08.702 In March, the New York Times came out with an article, 00:12:08.702 --> 00:12:14.764 and the title was: "Puberty at Age 10: The New 'Normal'?" 00:12:16.035 --> 00:12:17.538 I'm not okay with that. 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:22.810 Girls are developing three to five years earlier on average now, 00:12:23.568 --> 00:12:26.505 largely due, in part, to the consumption 00:12:26.505 --> 00:12:29.281 of added growth hormones to the meat supply. 00:12:29.726 --> 00:12:32.552 So if there's one thing to remember from what I have to say, 00:12:32.552 --> 00:12:36.190 and there's one thing you need to take, and you're going to shift your budget 00:12:36.190 --> 00:12:40.005 somewhere else with your food, it's towards clean animal products. 00:12:41.933 --> 00:12:44.472 How may of you know what a GMO is? 00:12:45.992 --> 00:12:47.065 Good. 00:12:47.065 --> 00:12:48.390 Almost everyone. 00:12:48.780 --> 00:12:51.091 Genetically modified organisms 00:12:53.448 --> 00:12:57.505 are organisms where they take the DNA of one species 00:12:57.505 --> 00:13:01.716 and they inject it into the DNA of another species in a lab. 00:13:02.632 --> 00:13:09.325 And that creates a combination of plants that have not existed in nature before 00:13:09.325 --> 00:13:13.219 and also do not exist in traditional cross-breeding methods. 00:13:14.428 --> 00:13:20.268 So what we have with GMOs is Frankenfood, in my opinion. 00:13:20.855 --> 00:13:24.526 Corn, soy, canola, dairy - 00:13:25.035 --> 00:13:28.351 these are the foods that are the most genetically modified 00:13:28.351 --> 00:13:30.489 and in 30 countries around the world, 00:13:30.489 --> 00:13:32.759 and all the countries of the European Union, 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:37.631 there's severe limitation and restrictions or outright bans on GMOs. 00:13:37.961 --> 00:13:38.942 That's what I mean. 00:13:38.942 --> 00:13:42.515 It's not that the food supply has just changed towards processed foods, 00:13:42.515 --> 00:13:46.170 but the raw materials that go into those processed foods 00:13:46.170 --> 00:13:49.970 have changed so dramatically, and we need to avoid them. 00:13:49.970 --> 00:13:51.562 Especially when we're eating out, 00:13:51.562 --> 00:13:54.622 restaurants are using genetically modified soybean and canola oil 00:13:54.622 --> 00:13:57.516 because it's not that expensive, 00:13:57.516 --> 00:13:59.953 and we're not getting the nutrients out of our meal. 00:13:59.953 --> 00:14:03.793 We're getting maybe 50 percent of the nutrients out of our meal 00:14:03.793 --> 00:14:05.734 when we're consuming GMOs. 00:14:07.384 --> 00:14:10.327 There's lots of chemicals that we're contending with. 00:14:10.327 --> 00:14:15.401 The FDA has 2,700 intentional food chemicals from food dyes, 00:14:15.401 --> 00:14:18.634 FD&C yellow number 5 and yellow number 6. 00:14:19.073 --> 00:14:22.734 We've got artificial sweeteners, MSG - 00:14:23.850 --> 00:14:25.839 we really have to start to look at that. 00:14:25.839 --> 00:14:29.945 And bath and body products is the other part of the hormonal equation 00:14:29.945 --> 00:14:33.912 because there's a huge opportunity to disrupt your endocrine system 00:14:33.912 --> 00:14:35.473 by what you put on your body. 00:14:36.071 --> 00:14:41.402 And I just want you to think about the skin as the largest absorbative organ. 00:14:41.402 --> 00:14:43.273 So if you wouldn't put it in your body, 00:14:43.273 --> 00:14:45.731 a good rule of thumb is don't put it on your body. 00:14:47.424 --> 00:14:49.470 And this one I could talk about all day long 00:14:49.470 --> 00:14:52.295 because this is how I got into nutrition. 00:14:52.591 --> 00:14:56.513 There is no doubt in my mind I would have diabetes right now 00:14:56.513 --> 00:14:59.853 and I would probably be 50 pounds heavier than what I am 00:14:59.853 --> 00:15:01.574 had I not found this field, 00:15:01.574 --> 00:15:04.143 because I used to eat a package of Sour Patch Kids 00:15:04.143 --> 00:15:06.799 and a package of Swedish fish every day for lunch. 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.291 I was a total sugar junkie. 00:15:09.811 --> 00:15:11.966 And we don't have to talk too much about sugar 00:15:11.966 --> 00:15:16.645 because I think everyone knows that it's not good for you at this point. 00:15:17.023 --> 00:15:19.381 But I just want to point out: 00:15:19.381 --> 00:15:24.362 How did it become okay to drink a soda the size of your head? 00:15:24.362 --> 00:15:25.787 (Laughter) 00:15:25.787 --> 00:15:28.081 I don't know how that happened. 00:15:28.081 --> 00:15:30.110 Clients say, "I only drink one soda a day." 00:15:30.110 --> 00:15:31.648 I have to say, "But what is it?" 00:15:31.648 --> 00:15:33.347 "It's a Big Gulp, but that's okay, 00:15:33.347 --> 00:15:36.104 it's from, like, lunch, all the way to the end of the day." 00:15:36.104 --> 00:15:37.504 Right? 00:15:37.504 --> 00:15:42.216 One soda today is the equivalent of 18 in 1955. 00:15:44.955 --> 00:15:47.154 The solution is simple. 00:15:49.985 --> 00:15:53.351 That's a simple solution to changing things. 00:15:54.068 --> 00:15:57.220 But you need to know what real food is in order to change it. 00:15:57.220 --> 00:16:00.450 A chicken breast - a client will say, "It's just a chicken breast" - 00:16:00.450 --> 00:16:02.015 isn't a chicken breast any more. 00:16:02.015 --> 00:16:04.804 We need to know, what did the chicken eat? 00:16:04.804 --> 00:16:07.530 How was it raised, how was it fed? 00:16:08.423 --> 00:16:10.897 So that's why we have to challenge the food supply, 00:16:10.897 --> 00:16:14.838 so you can discern what's real food and what's not real food. 00:16:16.976 --> 00:16:19.535 You can be part of the solution. 00:16:20.195 --> 00:16:22.846 Local, organically grown fruits and vegetables. 00:16:22.846 --> 00:16:28.548 We have Community Supported Agriculture - farms that we can buy our food from. 00:16:28.548 --> 00:16:30.717 We're so blessed to live in this area. 00:16:30.717 --> 00:16:33.305 You buy local, organically grown fruits and vegetables, 00:16:33.305 --> 00:16:36.442 you don't have to eat three apples, you can just eat one, 00:16:36.442 --> 00:16:38.911 because the nutrients will be there, 00:16:38.911 --> 00:16:40.905 the minerals will be there, 00:16:40.905 --> 00:16:44.793 because of the way that they're using traditional farming techniques. 00:16:46.343 --> 00:16:49.350 Wild fish and pastured animal products. 00:16:49.350 --> 00:16:52.420 'Pastured' - such a buzzword these days. 00:16:52.420 --> 00:16:55.524 It just means the animal ate what it wanted to eat in nature, 00:16:55.524 --> 00:16:57.429 and lived how it should have lived, 00:16:57.429 --> 00:17:00.173 then you're getting nutrients from that food. 00:17:00.867 --> 00:17:03.861 Choosing gluten-free grains - that's really important. 00:17:03.861 --> 00:17:06.501 Gluten sensitivity is huge. 00:17:07.289 --> 00:17:12.657 Staging beans, legumes and root vegetables throughout your diet, 00:17:12.657 --> 00:17:15.474 will slowly release the glucose in your system, 00:17:15.474 --> 00:17:19.751 so you never really get those cravings for the white stuff or for the sugar. 00:17:21.234 --> 00:17:23.532 I'm such a fan of healthy fats and oils. 00:17:23.532 --> 00:17:27.222 There's nothing wrong with grass-fed butter, coconut oil, 00:17:27.222 --> 00:17:30.715 avocados, all these things are so important. 00:17:31.031 --> 00:17:33.710 And keep the sweetness, but lose the sugar. 00:17:33.710 --> 00:17:36.308 Learn about sugar alternatives. 00:17:37.117 --> 00:17:38.774 There's so many of them out there. 00:17:38.774 --> 00:17:42.036 Coconut sugar - looks and tastes exactly like brown sugar. 00:17:42.036 --> 00:17:45.455 It doesn't affect you nearly like regular sugar does. 00:17:46.066 --> 00:17:50.299 Stevia has no effect on blood sugar; it's 100 times sweeter than sugar. 00:17:50.299 --> 00:17:51.883 We can still enjoy sweet treats. 00:17:51.883 --> 00:17:56.519 We don't have to have this approach of denial or deprivation, 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:58.370 it's just upgrading. 00:17:59.188 --> 00:18:05.148 And we're creating rituals, traditions, having that anchor around food. 00:18:05.148 --> 00:18:08.415 Mindful eating, not being a stand-at-the-kitchen-counter eater, 00:18:08.415 --> 00:18:10.375 or eat-in-your-car eater. 00:18:10.375 --> 00:18:12.717 It's eating for true nourishment. 00:18:15.197 --> 00:18:17.111 This is not a new concept. 00:18:17.541 --> 00:18:20.320 Two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Hippocrates said, 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:23.851 "Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food." 00:18:24.312 --> 00:18:27.616 So if I leave you with one thought, 00:18:27.616 --> 00:18:31.820 it's that healthcare reform, it doesn't start in Washington, 00:18:31.820 --> 00:18:33.962 it starts in our kitchen. 00:18:33.962 --> 00:18:38.437 We need to vote with our dollars when we go to the grocery store 00:18:38.437 --> 00:18:41.140 and that's voting for a cleaner food supply. 00:18:42.431 --> 00:18:46.654 My favorite quote by Margaret Mead states, 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:53.181 "Never doubt that a small commited group of individuals can change the world; 00:18:53.181 --> 00:18:56.564 indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." 00:18:57.552 --> 00:18:59.180 Thank you. 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