Nutrition in a Nutshell - Curious Minds want to Know

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About the Speaker:
Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, LDN, IFMCP is a registered and licensed dietitian nutritionist, board-certified integrative and functional medicine certified practitioner, clinical nutritionist, and exercise physiologist. She was a Certified Diabetes Educator with the NCDBE for 15 years. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with the University of Rhode Island and Brown University’s teaching hospitals, received doctoral training in nutritional genomics and pharmacology through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and completed her Doctorate of Science degree through Hawthorn University. Dr. Dean has received advanced training in functional medicine and nutritional biochemistry through the Institute for Functional Medicine and is a board-certified IFM practitioner. She has also worked with the Duke University Medical Center’s Endocrinology and Metabolism Disorders Clinic and the Joslin Center for Diabetes as a certified diabetes educator.Dr. Dean is also the co-founder of IFNA™, the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy, a comprehensive online training and mentoring program designed to teach health care practitioners how to seek the true root causes of disease to restore optimal health and function and ultimately transform the practice of nutrition using the most effective integrative and functional nutrition diagnostic tools and treatment protocols for preventing and reversing chronic illness.She’s served as the consulting sports nutritionist for the Philadelphia Phillies, has consulted for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Toronto Blue Jays, and was the media spokesperson and columnist for the Ironman Institute, and is the author of Nutrition & Endurance: Where Do I Begin? (Meyer & Meyer Publishing).Sheila is also an amateur musician, lover of language, and very proud mother of two amazing adult children who always dutifully remind her of when it’s time to take a break.

This week’s topic
Nutrition in a Nutshell - Curious Minds want to Know
"What will be the food of the future?" an early believer asked Abdu'l-Baha.

Fruit and grains. The time will come when meat will no longer be eaten. Medical science is only in its infancy, yet it has shown that our natural diet is that which grows out of the ground. The people will gradually develop up to the condition of this natural food. – quoted by Julia Grundy, Ten Days in the Light of Akka, pp. 8-9.

In 400 B.C. Hippocrates wrote about the relationship between health and food when he said, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth (…oops, he found Florida instead). Food and its relationship to our health is an age-old subject, and still a primary concern for everyone. As foragers of food, we may have eaten more organically in the past, before processed and fast foods became so easily available. But today, new guidance from the Baha’i writings suggests that there is a link between food and our spiritual potential.

Between material things and spiritual things, there is a connection. The more healthful his body the greater will be the power of the spirit of man. – Ibid.

How can we approach food from a spiritual vantage point, and reap the physical benefits of productivity at the same time?
https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-diet-eating-for-our-souls/

Many of us intellectually understand that moving towards healthier eating will not only help us individually, collectively, environmentally, and economically—but will also move us and our societies into a healthier future on all accounts. Yet we still find it very onerous to discipline ourselves when it comes to food.