- Food as Medicine Symposium 2020, all presentationsOriginal Date: February 1-2, 2020This discounted package includes all of the individual presentations from the conference, which are listed below.12.0 CEUs (general) approved by OBNM
- Infuse Your Food with Energy: A Chinese Nutritional Approach to HealthPresenter: Ellen Goldsmith, MSOM, LAc, Dip CHOriginal Date: February 2, 2020This presentation offers an overview to the energetic approach to food through the lens of Chinese medicine. The power of food as medicine is well documented in the Chinese medicinal literature and offers people today a direct way to engage with eating in a healthful and delicious manner. Food energetics is a powerful compliment to any health and medical practice when making food recommendations to improve health outcomes.This class introduces the fundamentals of food energetics through the thermal nature (Qi) of food, flavors of food and various cooking methods throughout the seasons as a way to adapt everyday eating for optimal health.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- Food Story Coaching – A Narrative Approach to Improving Dietary Change in PatientsPresenter: Ian Rubin, MAOriginal Date: February 2, 2020Helping clients start, succeed and sustain meaningful dietary change is one of the most difficult tasks for any wellness practitioner. A multitude of powerful forces, including cultural, mental, emotional and spiritual—present hurdles, preventing patients from applying the nutrition know-how they already possess, and prevents them from being ready, willing or able to receive and implement new information. Dietary programs given to patients are rarely successful due to these under-appreciated influences. A new approach that increases patient efficacy and program adherence is needed. Food Story Coaching® is one such system that takes an inside-out approach to creating behavior change. Drawing from motivational interviewing, health coaching and positive psychology, Food Story Coaching® is a deeply humanistic way to empower patients to make long term dietary change.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- The Ethics of Dietary Prescribing: First Do No HarmPresenter: WendyLeigh White, ND, MSOriginal Date: February 2, 2020The principles of naturopathic medicine can be applied to explore disordered eating and the ethical implications of dietary recommendations. What is 'normal' eating and does that definition apply to everyone? Are healthcare practitioners screening patients for eating disorders or disordered eating patterns? Learn to assess and protect patients from the harms brought on by inadvertent food and body shaming.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- From Traditional Healing Onward: Honoring Our Indigenous RootsPresenter: Gary L. Ferguson II, NDOriginal Date: February 2, 2020Naturopathic Medicine has a deep connection to indigenous ways of knowing, healing. In this presentation, we explore the rich history of herbal medicine and healing traditions that contribute to the amazing efficacy of holistic naturopathic medicine. As we embrace these deep traditions and the ancestral wisdom they come from, we gain insight into healing mind, body and spirit. In this session, we do a deep dive into ways that Naturopathic Medicine can re-invigorate and assist indigenous populations in their reclaiming of these powerful medicines, healing ways.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- Kitchen Culture: How Learning to Ferment at Home Promotes Healthy External and Internal Microbiomes and Helps Us Connect to our Bacterial AncestorsPresenter: Chelsie Falk, NDOriginal Date: February 2, 2020Humans have evolved alongside bacteria internally and externally for all of humanity. There is a growing interest in understanding and researching the human microbiome and numerous health and disease connections have been made pertaining the health of our internal microbial communities. We explore culture in the microbial sense and culture in the human sense as the two collide when we discuss the processes of fermentation, which is found in every civilization across the globe throughout history. Fermented foods and/or the knowledge to make these items have traveled the globe with human migration sometimes against great odds. In this talk we consider how teaching people to ferment foods and beverages in their own homes may have an impact on creating a healthy kitchen microbiome, and thus may positively impact their health through improved internal microbiomes from the regular production and consumption of fermented foods. We also discuss how these techniques are a way to connect back to our ancestral diets.Encouraging and teaching people/patients/clients how to ferment foods at home may have a positive impact on a broad range of health concerns due to the increased production and consumption of fermented foods, which contain probiotics. Learning these techniques can also be healing for people as it allows them to create autonomy over their food production and foster a connection to non-processed ancestral diets.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- Gut-Skin Axis: Nutrition and the MicrobiomePresenter: Raja Sivamani, MDOriginal Date: February 2, 2020Multiple chronic dermatological conditions, such as acne and rosacea, are typically treated with repeated courses of antibiotics such as doxycycline and minocycline. However, the newer guidelines within dermatology call for decreased antibiotic use to reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria and the impact on the microbiome. This presentation reviews how gut health and the gut microbiome can relate to the skin. In particular, we highlight the role of foods and nutritional supplements like probiotics in their impact on skin diseases such as acne and rosacea.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, and Naturopathic MedicinePresenter: Joshua Corn, ND, MSOriginal Date: February 2, 2020Weight bias and weight stigma are common in medicine. Patients in larger bodies are marginalized in the medical system and frequently receive worse care than patients in average sized bodies. In addressing the whole person, naturopathic medicine is fundamentally weight neutral and body positive in a way that can benefit many patients who have experienced negative interactions with medical providers in the past. This presentation focuses on educating providers on the negative effects of weight bias and weight stigma on patients. The presenter shares tips and tools for working with patients in larger bodies and providing weight neutral, whole person centered healthcare.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
- Ethics of Prescribing a Gluten-Free DietPresenter: Lisa Shaver, ND, LAcOriginal Date: February 2, 2020The gluten-free diet is a frequent staple in a practitioner’s list of modalities to use for a myriad of conditions. “Try a gluten-free diet” or “go gluten-free” has become a common phrase heard between friends and neighbors, nutritionists and bloggers. However, a gluten-free diet (GFD) is a medical prescription for celiac disease. When prescribing a therapeutic GFD prior to thoroughly testing for celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), a practitioner is unwittingly denying that patient a chance at revealing the root cause of symptoms and a life-long/permanent systems-damaging inflammatory autoimmune process with grave associated repercussions. We wouldn’t ask a non-type 1 diabetic to “try insulin” – it’s inappropriate. As conscientious practitioners, the medical and health community needs to be diagnosing celiac disease appropriately, or thoroughly ruling it out, prior to prescribing a GFD.Dr. Shaver presents the top reasons why prescribing a GFD is unethical in the absence of first performing thorough testing for celiac disease and NCGS, from high risks of developing other unidentified autoimmune diseases to repercussions amid an entire family tree, to increase risks for cancers in celiacs who continue undiagnosed.1.5 general CEUs approved by OBNM
