9:00 am - 5:00 pm
14 CEUs/PDAs
General Credit for the CAB & NCCAOM.

*pending

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch

Food is the most common staple of our lives and should reflect the most essential aspect of our health. Yet most people eat out of habit, based on cravings or convenience, or from latest news of what foods are supposedly healthy. As such, diet can easily compliment or interfere with an individual’s health, sometimes to the point of rendering one’s healing modalities ineffective.

Scientific research and nutrition tends to be based more on the notion of supplementation and the micronutrients of food. Often when a specific nutrient or substance is identified, recommendations are made to the consumers to eat more or obtain the benefits through a supplement or specific diet. Such an approach fails to recognize the synergy of the nutrients or even other factors (such as cooking, combinations, and individual concerns). Chinese dietary therapy is more interested in devising diets for individuals based on their unique constitution, instead of focusing on the fallacy of an all-encompassing fix. This workshop will discuss all of the above, as well as food combinations, the role of digestion, and the development of individual diet plans.