Public Forum
Public Forum
Health & Happiness:
How What We Eat Affects Our Emotional Well-Being
Tuesday, April 17
Westin Boston Waterfront
Boston, Massachusetts
$20, open to the public
In celebration of Dr. Andrew Weil's new book, Spontaneous Happiness, conference attendees and the Boston public are invited to this unique event where leaders in health, science, and politics discuss nutrition and happiness. Conference attendees and the public is invited to this unique event.
Tickets $20 online and at the door
Program
Calories and Culture: A Worldwide Photographic Journey
6:30-7:15 p.m.
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Join Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio on a photographic exploration of demographic and global meal traditions and customs. Vivid photography and insightful sociological commentary on international eating habits by the authors make this a not-to-miss event.
Peter Menzel is a freelance photojournalist known for his coverage of international feature stories on science and the environment. He has received a number of World Press and Picture of the Year awards. Faith D'Aluisio is a former award-winning television news producer. She is the editor and lead writer for the book-publishing imprint Material World Books.
In 1994 Peter Menzel created the bestselling book Material World, A Global Family Portrait, a examining material possessions and daily lives of average families around the world. This was followed by Menzel and D'Aluisio's first collaboration, Women in the Material World in 1996, Man Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of Eating Insects in 1998, and Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, about robots and their creators, in 2000.
Menzel and D'Aluisio's book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (2005) is an around-the-world exploration of average daily life through food in 24 countries, detailing families' weekly food purchases and total cost. The couple won the coveted James Beard Best Book Award in 2006 for Hungry Planet, and in 2005 received Book of the Year from the Harry Chapin World Hunger Media Foundation. Menzel and D'Aluisio's newest book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets (2010) is a photographic journey and sociological exposition of typical meals in 30 countries.
7:15 p.m.
Welcome and introduction
Moderator, Tara Lemmey
The Doctor and the Chef - Exploring Food and Happiness
We all know that food makes us happy, but so many of us associate this idea with only chocolate cake or mashed potatoes. Find out how food can truly affect our happiness, change our brains and, quite possibly, change our lives.
In celebration of Dr. Andrew Weil's latest book Spontaneous Happiness, Tara Lemmey sits down for an intimate conversation with Dr. Weil, and James Beard award-winning and Top Chef Master chef Jody Adams to discuss health and happiness and how what we eat affects our emotional well-being.
Dr. Weil will examine the inflammatory theory of depression and how what we eat and do does, in fact, affect just how content and happy we are everyday. This theory, which provides an alternative approach to the drug therapies for bringing your emotional state back in balance, considers everything from what you eat and what you feed your family to how you approach food.
Jody Adams will join in the conversation to explore the relationship of food and well-being. Jody is known for getting her staff into the field and understanding where the food comes from. She launched an internal educational program, Guerilla Grilling, in 2008 as a way to connect her staff to local farmers and artisan producers who are supplying her Harvard Square restaurant, Rialto.
Together they will explore everything from rethinking celebratory food to discovering ways to navigate a restaurant menu, and exchange ideas on how you can incorporate basic skills into your everyday mealtime decisions. You'll be able to listen and ask questions as they consider such topics as the United States' growing childhood obesity rates and the rising epidemic of depression, and how maintaining proper balance of food and nutrition and lifestyle can play vital roles in affecting these illnesses.
Q & A: Speakers will be answering audience questions
Bios
Jody Adams, chef
Jody Adams is the chef and owner of Rialto in Harvard Square, Cambridge and the chef and co-owner of TRADE in Boston. A James Beard award-winning chef and competitor on season two of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters Jody has been praised for her creativity, support of local farmers, continuous charitable work, and business acumen by local and national publications.
Jody teaches monthly cooking classes out of Rialto and leads yearly culinary bike trips through Italy, and in June 2012 she tour Provence, France. Jody and her husband, Ken Rivard published a cookbook, In the Hands of a Chef: Cooking with Jody Adams of Rialto Restaurant (Harper Collins Publishers; January 2002), and in Fall 2012, Jody and her husband, Ken Rivard launched a food blog with weekly recipes called The Garum Factory.
Jody is actively involved in organizations that support children's advocacy and hunger relief both domestically and internationally along with many other important causes. In August 2011, for the first time Jody and her team, Team Rialto-TRADE cycled 200 miles from Sturbridge to Provincetown participating in The Pan-Mass Challenge raising $65K for Dana-Farber Cancer Research.
Andrew Weil, MD
Andrew Weil, MD, integrative medicine pioneer, best-selling author, and internationally recognized thought leader, is founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona, where he also holds the Jones/Lovell Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health.
TIME magazine named Weil one of 25 most influential people in the USA in 1997 and one of 100 most influential people in the world in 2005. Weil is an internationally recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Weil's books have been sold, including Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health, The Healthy Kitchen, Healthy Aging, and Why Our Health Matters, and Spontaneous Happiness (released Nov. 2011).
Tara Lemmey
Tara Lemmey is the CEO of Net Power & Light, a San Francisco-based technology startup developing immersive experiences for the internet. Lemmey has breadth and depth of experience in large-scale, complex innovations from media and entertainment to national security and health care innovation. A technologist and strategist, Lemmey has lead multiple start-up companies and has more than 20 pending and issued patents. She is a long-standing delegate at the FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women Summits and serves as technology co-chair of the Markle Task Force on National Security, inventing a new model for US information and intelligence after 9/11. As part of the faculty of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, she collaborates each year with Dr. Andrew Weil on advancing education in public health and wellness.
In addition to Net Power & Light, Lemmey is the chairperson of LENS Ventures, a strategic innovation firm that works with leading institutions in creating innovation investment and acquisition portfolios including, American Express, BestBuy, Nokia and the Lumina Foundation.
