Healing Ourselves, Healing the Planet:
The Power of Food
For over 30 years Kushi Institute (http://www.kushiinstitute.org) has been guiding individuals and families on ways to improve their health and lives through natural food and lifestyle changes. Whether you want to improve your health, help prevent serious illness, achieve your weight and appearance goals or support a healthy environment, come by the cooking demo area to learn how food can help you and the planet, and how to make complete, healthy, nutritionally balanced, 20-minute meals.
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Growing Younger
Mirea Ellis — 58 years young — will show you how to incorporate foods into your daily meals that can dramatically transform your appearance for the better, including reducing wrinkles! You’ll also learn how some foods can be easily used as effective and economical body care treatments.
Food for A Healthy Heart
Learn about the dietary changes that can have the greatest impact on your heart and circulatory system, foods that can strengthen the heart and clear arteries of plaque and thin the blood naturally, and studies that show complete reversal of advanced heart disease through dietary changes alone.
Immune System Booster
Did you know that everyone produces cancer cells on a regular basis? It is the strength of a healthy immune system that keeps these cells from developing into a cancerous condition. Find out about foods that weaken the immune system and foods that strengthen it.
Ease Digestive Distress
Learn how dietary changes can relieve acid reflux, Crohn’s disease and celiac disease symptoms. See how to prepare whole foods and gluten-free meals that also help with other digestive problems.
Hypoglycemia and Diabetes Natural Solution
Dramatic peaks and falls in blood sugar level contribute to many health risks, emotional stresses, and make the whole body age faster. Learn the adverse effects of specific foods and how to make meals that are satisfying and help reduce cravings for refined sugars and processed foods.
Healing Ourselves and the Environment
Learn about how food purchases influence your health and how the purchasing patterns of individuals contributes to the overall health of global natural resources. See how easy and affordable it is to make complete and healthy, environment-supporting meals from organically grown whole foods.
Traditional Probiotics: Delicious Fermented Foods
Learn what probiotics are and how to get them through food sources such as pickles, sauerkraut, miso and soy sauce that are naturally fermented and retain their full probiotic activity. Discover how to use natural whole foods and condiments with probiotic activity in daily meals.