In a four-day event filled with luminaries, UZIT students and UZ guests dedicated to improving self-care through the basics of proper nutrition.
In a four-day event filled with luminaries from the medical and nutrition community brought together UZIT students and UZ guests dedicated to improving self-care through the basics of proper nutrition. Guided by Jill Pettitjohn, Kris Carr and Dr. Alejandro Junger shared their collective wisdom on the topics of cleansing and detoxing through nutrition while famed cardiologist, Dr. Mehmet Oz discussed the preventative qualities of good eating. More than a dozen leaders in nutrition gathered to provide guidance in self-care through the use of nutrition as part of the UZIT training.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:30am to 9am - Morning Meditation
9:15am to 10:45am - Welcome to Urban Zen Well-Being Initiative Urban Zen's inaugural Well-Being Forum articulated and committed to the goal of bringing the best of Eastern and Western medicine together towards improving care in the hospitals -- for patients as well as health care providers. Speakers Include: · Joanne Heyman - Executive Director, Urban Zen Foundation (moderator) · Donna Karan - Fashion Designer and Founder, Urban Zen Foundation · Woodson Merrell, MD · Dr. Jamie Naughright - EdD, ATC/L, ERYT 500 - Director, Urban Zen · Colleen Saidman - Co-Director, Urban Zen Integrative Yoga Therapists · Rodney Yee - Co-Director, Urban Zen Integrative Yoga Therapists
11am to 11:45am - A New Approach to the Epidemic of Diabetes Diabetes now strikes more Americans than everand at ever-younger ages. According to United States Government figures, one in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes at some point in his or her life. Speakers Include: · Neal Barnard, MD - President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and President, The Cancer Project
11:45am to 12:45pm - Lunch Break & Open Discussion
12:45pm to 1:30pm - The Next Information Revolution: Food as Information Could it be that depression, anxiety, insomnia, attention deficit disorder, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, and dementia may be caused by imbalances in the body and have nothing to do with the meaning, metaphors and myths we associate with them? Speakers Include: · Mark Hyman, MD - Founder and Medical Director, The UltraWellness Center
1:45pm to 3:15pm - Power of Plant-Based Nutrition It is time to solve the healthcare crisis not by arguing about who is going to foot the bill but by incorporating inexpensive plant-based nutrition focused on a holistic paradigm of wellness. Speakers Include: · T. Colin Campbell, MD - Author, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University · Kris Carr - Best-Selling Author, Filmmaker, Motivational Speaker · Brian Clement, PhD - Co-Director, The Hippocrates Health Institute
3:30pm to 4:30pm - Nutrition for Women Women who understand the benefit of a well balanced diet are among the fortunate. Understanding how foods interact with each other and what combination of foods have preventive and healing capabilities is a powerful tool. Speakers Include: · Mariel Hemingway - Holistic and Balanced Living Educator, Author, Actress, Model and Yoga Instructor · Frank Lipman, MD - Founder and Director, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center · Susan Luck, RN - Founder, Earthrose Institute · Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN, NP Co - Founder, Women To Women
4:45pm to 5:30pm - The Rhythm of Healing Dr. Lipman will talk about the often topic of body rhythms and health and how one can get back into rhythm using nutrition and other techniques that result in more balanced lives. · Frank Lipman, MD - Founder and Director, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center
Friday, April 17, 2009 8:30am to 9am - Morning Meditation
9:15am to 10:45am - Demystifying Detox This discussion will explain detoxification and offer an opportunity to talk with experts about their methods, application, and results. Speakers Include: · Kris Carr - Best-Selling Author, Filmmaker, Motivational Speaker · Alejandro Junger, MD - Director, Integrative Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital and Author · David Jubb, PhD - Founder, LifeFood · Kathy Freston
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11am to 12pm - Nutrition in Hospitals This discussion will focus on the nutritional standards of food provided to patients in hospitals and will address what can be done to improve hospital food. Speakers Include: · James Gordon, MD - Founder and Director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine · Roberta Lee, MD - Medical Director, Director of Medical Education · Lauren Robinson, RD
12:15pm to 1:15pm - Keynote Presentation: All About YOU! Dr. Oz will share insights from his YOU books and The Oprah Winfrey Show about how to motivate yourself and others to control your own/their health destiny. · Mehmet Oz, MD - Professor of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons / America's Doctor, The Oprah Winfrey Show
1:30pm to 2:30pm - Whole Fresh Foods for Anti-Aging and Strong Bones This lecture will address the correlation between the long-term effects of an unprocessed diet and slowing down of the aging process. Speakers Include: · Fred Bisci, PhD - Founder, Your Healthy Journey · Annemarie Colbin, PhD - Founder and CEO, The National Gourmet School for Health and Culinary Arts
2:45pm to 4:45pm -The Healthy Child This panel will discuss the ways to prevent disease, deal with chronic problems, and heal our nation's children through proper nutrition. Speakers Include: · Kenneth Bock, MD, FAAFP, FACN, CNS - Founder, Rhinebeck Health Center & The Center for Progressive Medicine / President of The American College for Advancement in Medicine · Michelle Bouchard - Executive Director, Healthcorps · Stephen Cowan, MD - Co-Founder, Riverside Pediatrics · Sarita Dhuper, MD - Founder, Live Light Live Right / Director, Child Obesity and Weight Control, Brookdale University and Medical Center · Tracy Fox - Mother of an Autistic Child · Brian Halweil - Executive Editor, Edible Manhattan / Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute
5pm to 5:45pm - Superfoods, Supplements And Essential Oils: The Do's And Dont's Of Investing Your Nutritional Dollars Immersed in natural products nearly from birth, Mr. Corrigan is the son of an herbalist, a cancer survivor and has spent the last decade working with top natural product manufacturers. Through his journey, he has gained unique insight into the people, philosophies and products we rely on to keep us well naturally. · Doug Corrigan - Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Young Living Essential Oils
In our genes and biology, we are still our ancient ancestors, but we are living at a pace and rhythm that are completely foreign to these imprints, according to Dr. Frank Lipman. Our modern lives have thrown our rhythms off, “We pay more attention to the clocks on our wrists and ignore our internal body clock. We become spent… running on empty,” he shared in his talk on how we can get into rhythm using nutrition and other techniques that result in more balanced lives.
Juicing, fasting and other techniques have become fads, but there is a real science behind the process of detoxifying, and authentic approaches to cleansing. At the end of day, you’ll have a chance to ask Kris, Donna, Michael and Denise your burning questions during the Q & A panel. And all the Crazy Sexy schwag will be available for purchase.
