Health Transformations - Lecture Series

Health Transformations
Health Promotion Topics
Diana Davis, M.Ed., LDN, RD

If requested, each presentation can have specially designed Pure Cuisine meal in order to provide multi-sensory learning. This allows the audience to eat some of the molecules they are learning about!

1. HEALTH STRATEGIES 2001: A Historical Restoration for Optimal Health. Shazam! It’s 10,000 BC in Rockville, a small cave community, and Rock, the leader, and his family is advanced to the 21st century due to certain advances in civilization. As we travel through this colorful animated power-point slide presentation, you will learn some POWERFUL, provocative, “meat-on-the-bone” health strategies to enable you to step beyond where you are NOW to maximize your genes to work for you in creating optimal health. Beware, humor is involved!

2. PHARMACOGNOSY: The Study of Food and Teas as Medicine: This presentation will help you “dive’ deeper to understand the health benefits of using certain foods and teas as natural remedies for ailments and prevent disease. Plant foods are found to contain naturally occurring healing substances known as phytochemicals. Such foods are often referred to as functional foods, designer foods, chemopreventative agents, pharmafoods or neutraceuticals and they are taking center stage in nutrition and health research. In this lecture you will learn how to use specific plant foods and teas for taking care of specific cells in your body. If Pure Cuisine is served you will eat and learn about some of these healing foods. Be prepared, your taste buds will jump for joy--it’s better than you may think!

3. METABOLIC MATCHING SEMINAR: Figuring Out Your “Blueprint” to Eat and Live Well When You Can’t Diet Anymore! This 4 presentation seminar will teach you a deeper understanding of the need for metabolic matching using nutritional, exercise, behavioral and genetic sciences to fuel your cells, shrink the fat cells and keep from -refeeding them. Interfaced with these sciences is the biochemistry behind our metabolic “highway” to facilitate you in discovering the best “blueprint” for a leaner body. Learn how to decrease your appetite and manage a long-lasting healthy weight . The following represents the some of the content and questions covered during this seminar. Anthropometrics are take before and after the seminar. It is also recommended to have a professional monthly follow-up for 18 months following this seminar for knowledge and skill building.

Metabolic Matching:

What you eat can make a big difference to your health and weight. What nutrients does your body need for health and wellness?
Do you have a “flavor-able” reputation? What is your willingness to try new foods? (Food lab experiment involved in this class—yes, eating is involved)
What is normal eating? What counts as a serving?
What is a natural, comfortable, and health weight for you? Learn to adopt many behaviors that can help you be successful at managing your weight.
How much do I need to eat? Is it possible to moderate your own food intake and maintain a natural weight? How can I regulate my food intake, enjoy food and eating—and still maintain your weight and sanity?
What kind of eating style do you tend to have? Are you an attuned eater, misguided eater, deprivation-driven eater, and/or emotional eater? Learn strategies on how to navigate through your eating style and to become an attuned eater.
Is there a magical way to lose weight? Learn how to separate the facts from the hype. The “CURRENT” rage….what’s the “good, bad and ugly” on carbohydrate-restricting diets such as “Enter The Zone”, “Protein Power”, “Dr. Bob Arnot’s Revolutionary Weight Control Program”, “The Carbohydrate Addict’s Lifespan Program”, “Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” and “Sugar Busters”? What about insulin resistance? Do carbohydrates make you fat? What is the glycemic index and what’s the scientific basis for using this index?

4. FILLING UP YOUR ENERGY TANK: When you feel fatigued, don’t you wish you could “drill” for mental or physical energy? You can once you know how to use the science of nutrition to fill up your mental and physical tank . This presentation will teach you how to use foods, supplements and herbs to optimize your mental and physical energy.

5. Stress Zappers: FACT: When we are stressed we need more nutrients! What does stress do to our body and what nutrient stores are depleted the quickest? This presentation will teach you how to use healing foods, herbs and nutrients to counter the damaging effects of stress. We will cover this while having a healthy “stress busters/anti-aging” lunch.

6. ARMING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH “IMMUNOTICS”: Immune dysfunction is not hard to spot. Recurring infections are a sure sign that your immune system is under mutiny. How can you arm you and your family’s immune system? You’ve probably heard that vitamin C and Echinacea can boost your immunity, but the truth is, other supplements and teas are more likely to help you. Come learn about building a natural medicine chest with “immunotics” that have been clinically shown to boost your immune system.

7. PHYTOTHERAPY: Building a Natural Medicine Chest: During this session you will learn how to use herbs to build a natural medicine chest in order to deal with poor circulation, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), impotence, colds, flu, sinus infections, bladder infections, migraines, mild to moderate depression, women and men’s health issues, insomnia, mild to moderate anxiety, enhancing physical performance, fatigue, stress, enhancing the immune system and more. We will examine the appropriate doses, forms and uses of these ancient remedies, which have now been examined under the scrutiny of medical science.

8. WOMEN’S WORKSHOP: Is PMS robbing you of the quality of life 1 to 2 weeks of the month? Do you have intense cravings for chocolate? What can you use to help counter the bloating, cramping, mood disorders, mastitis and cravings associated with PMS? What about the dilemma of Menopause….should I use hormone replacements? Can I go the natural route? Or a combination of both? What about osteoporosis, heart disease or cancer. This workshop will explore these issues and give some real practical ways to use foods and other natural medicines to compliment your decisions about various women’s health issues.

9. MEN’S HEALTH ISSUES: Men who traditionally have not been overly concerned about their diets are now beginning to realize that what they eat can affect their health and their performance -- at home, at work and on the playing field. Health and disease prevention issues will be discussed briefly from the top of their head to the bottom of their toes and then nutrition, neutraceuticals and herbal strategies to help men implement these prevention issues will be given. Tons of tips for helping men eat on the run as well as shopping at the grocery store and a cooking game plan will be provided.

10. TAKING ACTION: Prevention Against Heart Disease. Come jump on board on a cardiovascular health journey and learn a comprehensive approach beyond just how to lower your cholesterol. If you come on board, you’ll learn how to take care of your pump and vessels that are life supporting! Great empowering knowledge and skill building will be the emphasis of this class to avoid suffocating the heart and the brain!

11. NEURONUTRITION: HOW TO MAXIMIZING YOUR BRAIN POWER: Are you experiencing cognitive decline? Do you frequently have the inability to recall specific words or remember names? Come learn about a new “mental fitness” program that is at the white-hot forefront of anti-aging. Your brain is a muscle that needs fuel and exercise. So if you had 100 units to invest into your mind, where would they go and what type of return would you get for your investment? This program has been clinically shown to improve memory and diminish the effects of age-associated memory loss. Diana Davis, M.Ed., LDN, RD will provide you with the framework on this comprehensive program that employs western technology and eastern medicine and will keep your mind youthful, creative, and dynamic. You will learn how to take care of your greatest asset (i.e., your brain) as Diana delves deeply into the “NEURONUTRITION” (i.e., food and neutraceuticals for the nervous system) that must be incorporated into this comprehensive program. Come learn what has only recently emerged from the laboratories of neuroscience.

12. BIOMARKERS: GRACEFUL AGING: Can we slow down the aging process? Medically proven research indicates we can. How? Through a biointervention program. In this presentation we will explore the 10 determinants of aging you can CONTROL and show how one can begin this program (regardless of one’s present age) and delay many of the physical declines we think are due to our age but are in FACT due to our lifestyle. Baby boomers flock to this lecture!