Schools
Tamalpais Valley Speaker Series
Two Dynamic Speakers for Sept. 15, 2010
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Speaker: Sharon Meyer, DipION CNC, nutritionist at the Institute for Health & Healing in San Francisco and Marin County.
Sharon Meyer, DipION CNC , has been a practicing nutrition consultant for over 15 years. She graduated from the Institute of Optimum Nutrition in London and specializes in cancer, auto-immune, digestive health, and weight management.
Eat well. Live well. This program provides insight as to how maintaining your health, and preventing and treating chronic diseases can be influenced by naturally occurring chemicals in foods. In addition to providing energy, these dietary chemicals can directly or indirectly influence gene expression . Learn about "brain foods" and how they affect brain function; the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet; and how phytochemicals promote health and protect against chronic disease.
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOR BETTER HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Speaker: Dr. Molly Roberts, Integrative Medicine Physician at the Institute for Health & Healing in San Francisco and Marin County.
Molly Roberts, MD, MS , has expertise in family medicine, psychotherapy, spirituality, functional medicine, and women's health and is the co-author of The Individual Optimal Nutrition Handbook.
Good health requires integrating many aspects of well-being, from the physical and mental to the environmental and spiritual. This holistic approach to health goes beyond symptom treatment and views each person as whole--and able to activate their own innate healing response.
