Los Angeles 4/28: CHANGE YOUR DIET, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

For you Angelenos, there is a very cool day-long event coming up this Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the Skirball Cultural Center, located in the foothills over Brentwood. Sign up with Real Cooking today to make sure you get included in the yummy lunch.

sidenote: if you live in LA and need a dentist, keep reading...

Change Your Diet, Change Your Life
All-day Seminar, Saturday April 28

Learn how food can make a dramatic difference in your health!

You are warmly invited to join Real Cooking as we welcome noted author and speaker Sally A. Fallon and holistic dentist Raymond Silkman, DDS for an information-packed event that will make a dramatic difference in your health and that of your family. This inspiring day will cover the importance of incorporating traditional, nutrient-dense foods into your diet on a daily basis.

You will learn about:

• Nutrient-dense comfort foods that give limitless energy and vibrant health
• Healthy, whole foods that help babies and children to grow smart and strong
• The essential role of butter and other beneficial fats
• The significant dangers of modern soy foods
• The importance of eating foods from pasture-fed animals

Program of Events

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 11:30 The Oiling of America, Sally A. Fallon
Sally will discuss the sources of fats and oils in traditional diets. You will learn about the basics of lipid biochemistry, and how to choose good fats while avoiding bad ones.

11:30 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 3:00 Nourishing Traditional Diets, Sally A. Fallon
Animal fats, properly prepared whole grains, enzyme-enriched foods and nourishing bone broths kept our ancestors healthy. Sally explains why we need these foods, too. Beginning with a presentation of Dr. Weston Price’s unforgettable photographs of healthy traditional peoples, Sally delineates the underlying factors present in a variety of traditional diets that provided beauty, strength and complete freedom from disease in so-called “primitive” populations.

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:30 Nutrition and Dental Health, Raymond Silkman, DDS
Dr. Silkman will cover the close relationship of diet and dental health, including cranial and dental development and their effect on overall physical and mental well-being. He will also discuss several cases and their treatment outcomes, as well as the importance of including nutrient-dense foods in our diet.

4:30 – 4:45 Break

4:45 – 6:00 Making the Transition to Whole Foods Cooking and Eating, Victoria Bloch and Hollie Greenwood
Hollie and Victoria will discuss real-world steps to make preparing and eating delicious, nourishing foods an essential part of your daily life.

6:00 Closing

BIOS
Sally A Fallon is president of The Weston A Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Ms. Fallon lectures extensively around the world on issues of health and nutrition. She is a prolific writer of numerous articles and books. In 1996, Ms. Fallon published Nourishing Traditions, the cookbook which launched her career in alternative health. Her most recent book is Eat Fat, Lose Fat, which she co-authored with Mary Enig, PhD.

Raymond Silkman, DDS, has studied functional orthodontic courses and treatment modalities since his graduation from USC in 1991 and has used and incorporated a multifunctional approach to cranial/dental mal-development using such other modalities as cranial/sacral osteaopathy and S.O.T. chiropractic approaches. Nutritional support is a must for all of his treatment cases and he also works closely with other alternative health care providers. Currently he maintains a private biologically based practice in Brentwood, CA.

Hollie Greenwood is co-founder of Real Cooking, a talented cook, and a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She is currently enrolled in Hawthorn Health and Nutrition Institute, where she is studying towards her Master of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition.
Victoria Bloch

Victoria Bloch, co-founder of Real Cooking, is a skillful cook, a frequent speaker on both cooking and nutrition, and the local chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She is currently enrolled in Hawthorn Health and Nutrition Institute, where she is studying towards certification as a Nutritional Consultant.

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective, including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.

Comments

[steven fineberg]

Thanks for posting, Carla!! In LA the WAPF community is excited to welcome Sally Fallon to LA!!