NUTRITION CONFERENCE FOR FEED MANUFACTURERS
WE ALL EAT ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, AND WE ALL KNOW THE SAYING, “WE ARE WHAT WE EAT” BUT FOR SOME REASON, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO EAT SHOULD WE EAT MORE GRAPES OR DRINK MORE RED WINE? ARE EGGS A GOOD SOURCE OF PROTEIN OR A SOURCE OF BAD CHOLESTEROL? DO DAIRY FOODS HELP US GAIN WEIGHT OR LOSE WEIGHT? NUTRITION IS A FUNNY SCIENCE IT’S THE ONLY FIELD WHERE PEOPLE CAN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVE OPPOSING THEORIES AND STILL BE RIGHT IN SCIENCE, WE STICK TO FACTS THE EARTH ROTATES ON AN AXIS AROUND THE SUN THE FREEZING POINT OF WATER IS 32 DEGREES BUT WE ARE YET TO DISCOVER THE SAME DEFINITIVE TRUTHS ABOUT NUTRITION WE ARE ONLY BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR DIET AND OUR HEALTH DESPITE ALL THE NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH THAT’S BEEN DONE AND ALL THE DIET BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED, MOST AMERICANS ARE INCREASINGLY CONFUSED ABOUT FOOD I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE FIELD OF NUTRITION FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, AND WHAT I’VE LEARNED IS THAT THERE IS PROBABLY NO ONE RIGHT WAY OF EATING I KEEP AN OPEN MIND ABOUT NEW IDEAS THAT ARE PUBLISHED AND RESPECT OTHERS WHO ARE BRAVELY WORKING IN THIS STILL-EMERGING FIELD MY OWN BACKGROUND IS IN MACROBIOTICS, AN APPROACH TO HEALTHY EATING AND BALANCED LIVING DEVELOPED IN JAPAN THAT EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF WHOLE FOODS AND A PLANT-BASED DIET I’VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY FOOD AND HEALTH AND SPENT YEARS EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT WAYS OF EATING, NOTICING THEIR EFFECTS AND LOOKING FOR THE BEST ONES FOR ME AND FOR MY CLIENTS I STUDIED WITH THE TOP MACROBIOTICS EXPERTS AND APPRECIATED THE SIMPLICITY AND BALANCE OF THEIR SYSTEM I SPENT YEARS COUNSELING AND TEACHING OTHERS TO FOLLOW THE PRINCIPLES OF MACROBIOTICS TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AS I WENT ALONG, I BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT MACROBIOTICS WAS GETTING SOME PEOPLE WELL, BUT NOT EVERYONE I STARTED THINKING THERE WAS MORE TO HEALTH THAN SIMPLY EATING HEALTHY FOOD WHAT WAS THE MISSING INGREDIENT? AS I BEGAN TO WORK WITH MORE AND MORE CLIENTS, I FOUND SOME INTERESTING RESULTS SOME OF MY CLIENTS GOT BETTER IF THEY ATE MORE RAW FOODS, WHILE OTHERS GOT BETTER IF THEY ATE LESS RAW FOODS I HAD ONE CLIENT WHO DIDN’T GET BETTER UNTIL SHE STARTED EATING SOME HIGH-QUALITY DAIRY PRODUCTS, EVEN THOUGH MACROBIOTICS ADVISES AGAINST EATING DAIRY FOR OTHER CLIENTS, IT DIDN’T MATTER WHAT THEY ATE THEY GOT WELL BY LEAVING A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAREER OR FALLING IN LOVE THE MORE I OBSERVED HUMAN BEHAVIOR, THE MORE CONVINCED I BECAME THAT THE KEY TO HEALTH IS UNDERSTANDING EACH PERSON’S INDIVIDUAL NEEDS RATHER THAN FOLLOWING A SET OF PREDETERMINED RULES I SAW PLENTY OF EVIDENCE THAT HAVING HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS, A FULFILLING CAREER, AN EXERCISE ROUTINE, AND A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ARE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO HEALTH THAN DAILY DIET FROM THESE IDEAS, I DEVELOPED THE CONCEPTS OF INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION AS I BEGAN EVOLVING THIS NEW APPROACH WITH CLIENTS, THEIR RESULTS IMPROVED DRAMATICALLY I FOUND MANY PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO CREATE A HAPPY, HEALTHY LIFE AND RELIEVED TO DISCOVER AN APPROACH THAT WAS FLEXIBLE, FUN, AND FREE OF DOGMA AND DISCIPLINE DRAWING ON MY BACKGROUND IN EDUCATION, I STARTED MY OWN SCHOOL TO HELP INDIVIDUALS DISCOVER THE FOODS AND LIFESTYLE CHOICES THAT WORK BEST FOR THEM AND TO EMPOWER THEM TO CHANGE THE WORLD INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION IS A THRIVING SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY DEDICATED TO HELPING EVOLVE THE FUTURE OF NUTRITION SO THAT ALL BEINGS CAN LIVE HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, AND MORE FULFILLING LIVES FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS, PEOPLE TRAVELED FAR AND WIDE TO STUDY AT INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION IN NEW YORK CITY WE NOW OFFER A LIFE-CHANGING ONLINE COURSE, ALLOWING STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO EXPERIENCE OUR UNIQUE PROGRAM AS WE SPREAD OUR MESSAGE TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE, THE INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION COMMUNITY HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY WE ARE NOW 16,000 STRONG, WITH STUDENTS AND GRADUATES IN ALL 50 STATES AND 80 COUNTRIES WE ARE THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE WORLD INTEGRATING ALL OF THE DIFFERENT DIETARY THEORIES, COMBINING THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHIES LIKE AYURVEDA, MACROBIOTICS, AND CHINESE MEDICINE WITH MODERN CONCEPTS LIKE THE USDA FOOD GUIDES, THE GLYCEMIC INDEX, THE ZONE, THE SOUTH BEACH DIET, AND RAW FOODS WE TEACH MORE THAN 100 DIFFERENT DIETARY THEORIES AND ADDRESS THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS, ISSUES, AND ETHICS OF EATING IN A MODERN WORLD WE COMBINE THIS INFORMATION WITH SIMPLE STEPS FOR LIVING A MORE BALANCED LIFE FULL OF LAUGHTER, JOY, AND ABUNDANCE MY INTENTION IS FOR YOU TO UNCOVER THIS PROCESS FOR YOURSELF AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS I HAVE NOTICED THAT AS PEOPLE IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH, THEY BECOME EMPOWERED TO PURSUE THE LIFE OF THEIR DREAMS — THE LIFE THEY CAME HERE TO LIVE IF THIS BOOK FOUND ITS WAY TO YOU, OR YOU FOUND YOUR WAY TO THIS BOOK, I TRUST IT MEANS YOU ARE A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, HIGHLY SENSITIVE HUMAN BEING WITH AN APPRECIATION FOR THE BENEFITS OF WHOLE FOODS AND HOLISTIC LIVING LET THIS BOOK EMPOWER YOU TO STAND UP, SPEAK UP, AND ACT UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE MAY YOUR ALIVENESS CREATE A RIPPLE EFFECT IN THE WORLD, AND MAY ALL YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS COME TRUE