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Time stamps: The Wisdom Factory, episode #15 - with Chef Dennis Littley and Dr.Sven Werchan 0:00 Introduction to the show (and apologies for the techy glitches) 4:15 Sven: What is integral about cooking and eating? So much more than just nutrition 6:10 Describing the larger world of food and nutrition in the client’s world 7:48 Very complicated, especially we’re not aware of motivations, etc. 8:28 Changes in Chef Dennis’s “diet” 9:40 “I don’t know what gluten is, but evidently it’s delicious!” 10:00 Unexpected results from going gluten free 10:30 Soy problems 12:10 America allows so much to be added to food 13:00 Peanut butter and creativity 16:10 Chef Dennis on the integrality of food, involving all the senses 18:00 How we have lost our food innocence, and how to regain it, with mindfulness 20:00 Finding the pleasure in food, a very sensual experience, sometimes like sex 20:55 Sven: “Eating Tantra” 21:47 Innocence and mindfulness, somatic intelligence gets lost 24:45 Chef Dennis on food that reminds us of our childhood and Sven adds how childhood memories can be issues in adjusting awareness to our food habits 27:00 Healing the wounds we carry and having a direction. What shall we believe? 28.00 Global choices, local foods 29:22 Dr. Werchan’s tree analogy, ways of relating food to our environment 31:20 Difficulties with moderation, noticing the stages of “filling up”, all the different voices 34:00 Changes in the nutritional value of food today: This chicken doesn’t taste like chicken! 35:40 It all started with sliced white bread! 37:45 Sven: Take a commitment to not eat this bad stuff. Chef Dennis concurs 38:50 Agent Orange replacing Roundup, food practices effects on soil and the earth 39:30 How to use economic pressure to improve food and environmental quality 41:00 Take little steps; trying to do too much leads to failure 44:00 “Accidentally organic” or the way it used to be. Going both backward and forward 46:00 Last words and closings. First Chef Dennis and then Dr. Sven We begin to understand how important FOOD is in our lives. Sure, we need food for maintaining our body, our lives. But this is not all. There are foods which have the capability to do harm to our bodies and there are those who have the power to heal, even from illnesses like cancer. So why would we continue to eat thoughtlessly whatever we get? whatever our eyes or our noses like - which might be deceptive. So why don’t we collectively enter into a conversation not only of WHAT to eat, but also WHY we eat and HOW we eat?  A skillful and creative cook creates tasty beauty out of literally everything, so why not create a collaboration between nutritionists and chefs? -Yeah, that’s exactly what we are doing here in this show: open your minds, hearts, ears, eyes, noses and palates and enjoy the show!  Our Guests: Dr. med. Sven Werchan (PhD,) Nutritional Medicine, Psychotherapist, communication trainer, inspired by integral theory since 20 years, works as seminar leader, advisor, coach, lives in Berlin. Dr.Sven Werchan says about “Integral Nutrition” Nutrition is daily. Nutrition is everywhere. Nutrition concerns us. And nutrition is not out there. We are nutrition. Every atom of our body comes to us through nutrition.   That is, what my work is about, to expand our own consciousness about nutrition. And to use integral tools, because it is e very complex issue.   What does it mean? It means to go on a journey through our own world of eating. That includes a distinct look on “what and how much we eat”, a compassionate approach on ‚how we eat’ and our own experience with nutrition, it includes reflections on ‚why we eat’ and our ecological responsibility connected with the choices we make.   Integral nutrition is not a new diet nor it delivers strict rules. It is an invitation to find your own nutritional truth, embracing it with compassion and at the same time setting a clear intention to an evolutionary impulse towards a more integral, joyful and sustained way of dealing with nutrition in our own life’s, as culture and as global community.  It is a developmental journey towards the delightful joy of nutritional freedom. A freedom that is rooted in the love and compassion for ourselves and all beings.  +Chef Dennis Littley says:  *Life is good when you're able to do what you love!* "Chef Dennis" is known both at work and across the Internet. He is an Executive Chef, Culinary Instructor, HOA Host and Producer of three shows on Google Plus.    Since his retirement from professional kitchens,he made his home on Google+. He says: "There's no place I'd rather be, because Google+ puts the Social back into Social Media" Here are the shows he is hosting: *Good Day Google+*  *Around the Kitchen Table*  *The Food & Booze Show* More relevant conversations at www.TheWisdomFactory.net Find the Hosts Heidi Hornlein and Mark Davenport also at http://thepowerofrelationship.com or www.integralageing.com

• published: 25 Feb 2015
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