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The Roots of Health – Episode 41: Dietary Guidelines – The Definitive One.

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Dietary food guidelines are a distinctly modern phenomenon. Why do they even exist? Probably because all of the sudden, consumers have so many choices, that they can no longer instinctually feed themselves… and remain healthy.

While the US has been making dietary recommendations to its citizens for over a century, and have updated them every 5 years or so since the 1980’s, have you ever wondered what other governments recommend to their people?

This week I make some observations about the recommendations that we get in the United States vs. a country that has really embraced a holistic, ancestral view of eating.

Of particular note this week, I make mention of the US dietary recommendations and how they have leaned heavily toward some of our most subsidized commodities (corn, wheat, cotton, & soy subsidies top the list), about how the US focuses on calories, isolated ‘nutrients of concern’, and recommends ~3 ‘eating patterns’ (ignoring hundreds of not thousands of traditional diets that sustains humans worldwide – see 2010 US Dietary Guidelines here). And I review some interesting new recommendations that may be part of the 2015 US Dietary Guidelines.

In comparison – The Ministry of Health for the country of Brazil recognizes some very important principles – not reductionist & highlighting ‘nutrients of concern’ – but holistic, highlighting food preparation, community, tradition, equality, and justice. Their efforts culminate in the Ten Steps to Healthy Diets.

You can, and should, read the entire document here.

Tell me what you think about this.

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The Roots of Health – Episode 40: How to Get Healthy… Without Being a Jerk.

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*This show is more about not driving your family away when you decide to change your dietary choices… but it will equally apply to your friends… carry on.

Hi, I’m Meredith, and I was once a jerk – disguised as a health coach.

I understand this is a common problem – where one-half of a couple is motivated by some health issue to make a positive change, and the other half of the couple really likes the status quo. Even more – if you throw kids into the mix – and the motivated party suddenly wants health for the entire family… you have a recipe for rebellion.

What can you do? How to you go about getting healthy without being a jerk? 😉

This show is full of lessons learned from my very own story – complete with snippits straight from my kids. I offer a handful of suggestions for you to own your own health story and be a positive role model at home – without making your family feel like they are being dragged in against their will.

You’re not a jerk… I know you – you’re my kind of people.

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The Roots of Health – Episode 39: Healing Cancer with Biological Medicine, the story of Dayna Baumeister

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Cancer is a group of diseases that is characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells, and the American Cancer Society suggests that it can be treated with things like surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immune therapy, and targeted therapy – or drugs that interfere with cancer cell growth. These are the primary options that are presented to us in America. These treatments are designed to target and kill the cancer as if it was an isolated unit in our body. And none of these treatments are without side effects, which are often worse than housing the cancer itself.

Today I wanted to introduce to you an alternate approach to healing cancer. Biological medicine is not some new-age-woo-woo philosophy, it’s a real science and it’s based on the biology and physiology of the human being down to the cellular level. It is understanding that we are nature, that all of our systems are interconnected, that we’re unique individuals, that we each have our own story, and therefore our own unique healing journey.

Last week, I interviewed Dayna Baumeister of Biomimicry 3.8 and organization that looks to nature to solve modern human problems (listen here). During my conversation with Dayna, I found out that she was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago. Dayna, using a biomimicy approach, had the insight to ask nature how she would solve this problem… this is the story about how Dayna successfully healed her body using Biological Medicine.

Her story covers her visit with her oncologist, her decision to choose a biological approach to heal her cancer rather than a conventional (or industrial – as she calls it) approach, what happened to her during her 3-week healing journey, and what has changed about how she lives her life today.

Ultimately – you should be aware that your body is designed by nature to heal itself… and biological medicine is an approach that characterizes your unique, interdependent human body for the purposes of designing an individualized healing program for you.

Check out some of the biological medicine clinics in the States, including the Marion Institute in Marion, MA, and the American Center for Biological Medicine in Scottsdale, AZ.

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The Roots of Health – Episode 38: Biomimicry with Dayna Baumeister

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It’s pretty common for us to associate innovation and technology with human ingenuity. In school, we learned about the industrial revolution, and how from that point forward… the standard of life began to increase consistently for the first time in history. The development of machines to do the physical work of humans not only sparked efficiency, but sparked the economy.

By the end of today’s show – I hope to convince you that we’ve overlooked the most important innovator around – Nature. And that you can and should leverage the innovations that nature has already created to live a happy, healthy, and vastly more sustainable life here on Earth.

My guest today is out there spreading this message broadly, educating people around the world to literally think outside the box. Dayna Baumeister is the Co-Founder and Keystone of Biomimicry 3.8 – an organization that helps innovators solve human problems with the brilliance of nature’s design.

On this episode, Dayna and I chat about the roots of biomimicry, about the way human beings innovate vs the way nature innovates, about the difference between bio-inspired design and the real biomimicry of systems, some perspective on the amount of time that nature has been innovate on her own – without us – using only her laws, and a few examples of biomimicry in technology today. We discuss from a human health perspective how we might apply the concept of biomimicry to benefit our own lives on a daily basis.

Go ahead, ask nature how she’d do it…

Let me help you use the laws of nature to gain health… contact me to schedule a health strategy session today.

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