Affordable Nutrition: Community Wellness Tools of the Trade with Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D. from the NANP 2021 HEALCon. Take this quiz to earn 1.5 NANP CECs.
Dr. Ed Bauman has been at the forefront of the holistic health and nutrition renaissance for the past 50 years. He is the founder of Bauman College: Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP). After studying traditional health and nutrition systems for more than 30 years, Dr. Bauman created the Eating for Health approach, which forms the basis of his professional and community nutrition programs. Dr. Bauman has recently founded Bauman Wellness, a non-profit educational institution dedicated to nourishing cultures of wellness through healing foods, arts, and community learning. The Bauman Wellness Center, on the Bauman College campus in Berkeley, CA, is the hub of on-site and virtual community and corporate events, classes, programs, and cultural celebrations. He is the co-author of many books, including the groundbreaking Holistic Health Handbook, Holistic Health Lifebook, Foundations of Nutrition Textbook, Therapeutic Nutrition Textbook, Flavors of Health Cookbook, Whole Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors, Spice for Life: Self-Healing Recipes, Remedies, and Research, Affordable Nutrition, and Nutrition Essentials for Everyone. Dr. Bauman is a tireless advocate for integrating holistic nutrition, culinary arts, and wellness culture into mainstream education, health care, and community development. His goal is to empower people from all backgrounds to become more self-reliant and compassionate towards all life on our embattled planet.
Presentation Description:
Affordable Nutrition is a teaching tool and business model for holistic nutrition professionals to serve their communities to fulfill our mission to transform society by teaching people to eat well to be well. Today, as many as two-thirds of our population either don’t know how to cook or prefer to purchase prepackaged convenience food with significant dollar and health costs (Hyman, 2018). The time is right to broaden the reach of holistic nutrition programs and services, locally and virtually. Learn to facilitate programs that encourage people, companies, and organizations to make conscious food choices that connect them to their ethnic heritage, highlighting traditional foods, herbs, spices, and beverages with evidence-based healing benefits.
Poverty is more than a state of low income; it is also poor mental and physical health, with limited access to healthy food, community gardens, farmers’ markets, and a caring, wellness-centric community. This presentation will provide practical tools for translating holistic nutrition, culinary and shopping skills to people at high risk for costly mental and physical disease. Ways to fund Affordable Nutrition programs and partner with community health providers will be shared.
Affordable nutrition broadens the definition of holistic nutrition to include the environment, economy, and community and promotes personal body, mind, and spiritual well-being. It is a valuable antidote to the problems of our age: hunger, poverty, social injustice, violence, illness, and climate change.
Learning Objectives:
- Why broadening the paradigm on Holistic Nutrition is essential to broadening its relevancy and economic base
- How fund, market and teach Affordable Nutrition programs locally and virtually
- How to partner with agencies, local government, clinics, HMOs, hospitals and schools to provide community nutrition programs
- How to overcome resistance from USDA based health and nutrition educators
- Affordable Nutrition teaching and research tools
