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EATING HEALTHILY, AND WELL
THIERRY JUGNET, CHEF-OWNER, MOSAIC CUSINE AND
CAFÉ
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LETS TALK ABOUT
The Green Movement How It Began A brief
history of eating cave people to the modern
era What caused the Green Movement?
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LETS TALK ABOUT
How do we eat healthily? Organic, or not?
Is wine fine? Nitrates and nitrites How
does food affect our carbon footprint?
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LETS TALK ABOUT

• How should we prepare our food?
• Controlling portions
• A well-balanced plate carbs, proteins, and
  fats
• Eating seasonally, eating locally

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An Environmentalist
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Were the Cave People Our First Environmentalists?
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What Did Cave People Eat?
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Heres What Cave People Didnt Eat

• Potatoes (less than 11,000 years old)?
• Cereal grains (rice, wheat, barley, corn)?
• Dairy products
• Refined sugar products
• Distilled alcohol
• Fruit bred for high sugar content
• Large amounts of salt
• Foods that required cooking

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The Diet of The Cave People

• Higher in protein
• Higher protein to fat ratio
• Less saturated fat

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If they lived near water
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Fruits and Berries
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Nuts and Seeds

• a good source of proteins and fats

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Root Vegetables

• Rutabagas
• Onions
• Turnips
• Carrots.

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Grains and Fibers
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Eggs
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We Discover Cooking

• 10,000 Years Ago
• Cooking had a profound effect on our diets.
• Cooking foods made them much more edible and
  digestible.
• The heat destroyed any toxins.
• We began mixing foods eggs and grains.
• Food could be stored for longer periods.

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Our food was also the seeds of the plants. We
began to farm. Agriculture was born.
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Dairy Enters Our Diets
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Were our genes ready for Dairy?Or Salt? Or Sugar?
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Not So Good Substances
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Not So Good Substances
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Lets Look at More Current Times

• The New Environmentalism
• International events
• Catastrophic weather/climate change
• September 11th
• Wars, gas shortages
• Scientific consensus about environmental concerns

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What Does Organic Mean?

• Grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic
  fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified
  organisms, or ionizing radiation.
• Animals do not take antibiotic or growth
  hormones.

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Organic? Or Not?
Before a product can be labeled organic --
Government-approved certifier inspects the
farm. Makes sure the farmer is following all
USDA standards. Companies that handle or
process organic food before it gets to your local
super- market or restaurant must be certified.
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Understanding Organic

• 100 Organic Made with 100 organic ingredients
• Organic Made with at least 95 organic
  ingredients
• Made with Organic Ingredients A minimum of 70
  organic ingredients with strict restrictions on
  the remaining 30, including no genetically
  modified organisms (GMOs)?

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Why Do Organics Cost More?
Organic farmers dont receive federal
subsidies. Organic farming is more labor
intensive. Organic farms--- --are often
smaller. --do not benefit from economies of
scale, like larger growers.
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Is Organic Food More Nutritious?

• No definitive research.
• Some organic foods have been shown to have
  higher nutritional values.
• Some organic tomatoes have higher levels of
  phytochemicals and vitamin C.
  (University of California, Davis)?

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Does Organic Food Taste Better?
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Is Wine Fine?
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Safe and Effective Drinking

• Men No more than two glasses of wine per day
• Women No more than one drink per day
• One drinka 5-ounce glass of red or white wine,
  12 ounces of regular beer, or 1.5 ounces of
  80-proof distilled spirits.

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Health Benefits of Wine
Moderate amounts of alcohol can raise good
cholesterol and thin the blood. Resveratrol has
been shown to prevent blood clotting and plaque
formation. Red wine provides much more
resveratrol compared to white wine.
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Nitrates and Nitrites
Nitrate (NO3) is a form of nitrogen combined
with oxygen. It can be converted in the body to
nitrite (NO2). The major adult intake of nitrate
is from food rather than water -- but sometimes
excessive amounts of nitrate get into drinking
water. Typical sources of nitrate include
sewage disposal systems, run-off from barnyards
or fertilized fields, industrial wastes, or
nitrates that are naturally occurring in the
soil. Nitrate contamination can be related to
human, animal, or industrial waste practices.
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What isA Carbon Footprint?
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Your Carbon Footprint
The direct effect your actions and
lifestyle have on the environment in terms of
carbon dioxide emissions.
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Travel is a big contributor.
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All our actions have a direct or indirect impact,
including our diet, and the clothes we wear.
Here are just a few examples
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Trash
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Cans
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Overloading
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Public Transport
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Trash and Land Fills
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How Does This Relate to Our Food?
We are what we eat. Eating less meat and
dairy products may be a more effective way for us
to lower food related climate impact.
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Eating Local Food

• Shifting to an entirely local diet would reduce
  the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions by as
  much as driving 1,000 miles.
• Changing only one day per weeks meat and
  dairy-based calories to chicken, fish or
  vegetables would have a similar impact.
• Moving from the American diet with predominant
  meat -- to a vegetable-based diet would reduce
  the emissions by 8,000 miles per year.

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The Cold Facts

• The food we consume contributes to climate
  change.
• The production, packaging and transportation of
  food consumes energy and results in carbon
  emissions which threaten to raise average global
  surface temperatures.
• Our current food system and food choices are
  largely responsible for exacerbating the global
  climate crisis.

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And more

• Ten thousand small to medium-sized organic farms
  can emit as much as half the carbon dioxide as
  chemical farms because they use less fossil
  fuel energy.
• In fact, 10,000 medium-sized organic farms can
  store as much carbon in the soil as we would save
  if we took one million cars off the road.

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The Mediterranean Diet

• A truly healthy way of eating.
• Breads, grains, legumes, fresh vegetables and
  fruits, rice, pasta, seafood, nuts, olive oil
• The everyday use of natural fresh local seasonal
  plant foods that gently balance the intake of
  fish, meat and poultry.

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The Mediterranean Diet

• A wide range of dishes, including meat recipes,
  fish and seafood prepared with fresh and seasonal
  seafoods from the Mediterranean.
• The ingrained habit of sitting at a table in
  company to eat three meals each day, for which at
  least two are cookedbased on warm dishes, not
  raw food. Eating and socializing go hand in hand.

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Joyful Eating
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Enjoyment
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A Relaxed Spirit
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Thanks, and Bon Appétit!