1. Eating for a Healthy
New Year
Edward Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D., N.C.
Founder, President and Director
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2. Core Concepts
– Eating for Health
– 4 Levels of Eating
– Nutrition Heroes and Bandits
– Food and Chemical Sensitivity
– Sustainable Nutrition
– Creating Personal and Community Health
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3. Are You What You Eat?
Nutrition
Heroes
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4. What is Eating For Health™?
“ Eating for Health is a way of life.
It reflects a relationship to food and culture
based on consciousness, gratitude, art,
science, and service.”
~ Ed Bauman., M.Ed., Ph.D.
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5. Eating For Health™
• Whole Foods • Seasonal
– Fresh and Unrefined – Produce & Meal Plans
• Organic Foods • Strategic
– Chemical-free – Person-centered
• Diversified • Pure Beverages
– Variety
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7. Quantity and Quality Matter
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8. Holistic Nutrition Defined
• Nutrition: Food and beverages we ingest
• Nutrition: The nutrients we assimilate
– Macronutrients: protein, fat, carbohydrate
– Micronutrients: vitamin, mineral & enzyme
co-factors that balance pH
– Phytonutrients: plant compounds that
promote healthy gene expression & resilience
– Vital Factors: light, air, water, touch & love
Plants support life!
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9. What Many People Are Eating
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10. Eating for Health Foods
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11. 4 Levels of Eating
Level One
Eating for Pleasure
• Immature & impulsive
• Maximizing pleasure, minimizing pain
• Immediate gratification
• Refined foods such as cookies, ice
cream, candies…
• Excessive alcohol, coffee, or
chocolate
• Emotional eating in response to
stress
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12. Level Two: Eating for Energy
• Blood sugar regulation drives one’s food choices.
• Foods chosen to allay hunger.
• Burgers and burritos are common choices.
• Quality not really an issue.
• Highly acid-forming, allergy inducing, &
clogging.
• Unconcerned with ecological impact of food choices.
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13. Level Three: Eating for Recovery
• Inevitable outcome of Levels One & Two Eating is
illness: mental, physical, social, ecological, spiritual
• Response: Diet (Atkins, Zone, Weight Watchers,
Ornish, Raw, Food Combining, Blood Type, Twinkies)
• Positive effects of diets often diminish over time.
• Can plateau, become tiresome, judgemental or
product driven
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14. Level Four: Eating for Health
• Lifelong learning about optimal nutrition.
• Allows for personal choice.
• Choose from fresh, healthy, natural foods
• Care in preparation & presentation.
• Eat in a relaxed and peaceful way
• Food is understood & appreciated as an instrument
of personal healing & sharing with community.
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15. Nutrition Bandits
• Devoid of nutrients
• Rob nutrients from body
• Disrupt digestion
• Toxic to liver
• Damage immune system
• Inflame brain, nerves and muscles
• Increase weight gain & fat storage
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16. Big 5 Bandits
• Refined
carbohydrates
• Damaged fats
• Factory farmed
animals
• Nutrasweet and
artificial chemicals
• GMO Foods
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18. Lower the Total Load
• Cow’s milk: #1 most • Chocolate contains
common allergen; also: substances that can be
• Citrus, egg, sugar, wheat, allergenic for some, just
chocolate, soy mood-raising for others
• Rice & peanuts may also • Gluten: tough, hard-to-
be at issue—due to mold digest protein in
• Wheat
• Rye
• Barley
• Kamut & spelt
Whether allergies, intolerances or sensitivities, all add to Total Load
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19. Detox 101
• Bauman Mantra…
Booster Foods: sea vegetables, miso, leafy
vegetables, green drinks, juices, Vital ScoopTM
Liver herbs: milk thistle, burdock, Oregon
grape, yellow dock, dandelion
Sulphur foods: onions, garlic,
cruciferous vegetables
• Hydrate – Vitality FastingTM
• Read Food Labels carefully
• Sweat, move, eliminate waste
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20. Sustainable Actions
• Make your own: juice, vegetable & bone broths, nut
& seed milks, dips & dressings
o Reduce packaging & transportation
o Increase nutrients
• Dry, freeze and can food for later use
– Reusable packaging
– Known food sources
• Host community 'sustainability'
pot lucks and share information
and resources.
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21. Practice, Teach, Speak OUT
• Demand transparency from food purveyors
o Know the source of your food & what’s in it
• Make choices with awareness and consume less, if
possible
• Teach others to eat ‘outside of the box’
• Be more water and energy conscious
o Local food = less water & less
energy inputs
• Raise awareness, provide options,
show benefit, connect with our
beautiful roots.
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22. Hungry?…Let’s Eat!
Welcome Chef Sitarani Brian
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