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Join us to learn more about how your nutrition choices impact your health and how food can be used to maximize health, reduce chronic disease risk, and increase energy and vitality. Gain insight into how your genetic background, microbiome composition, and other factors help inform your optimal nutrition choices. 
  • Select from several lectures and a series of interactive learning lectures, cooking demos and breakout sessions by renowned experts in various specialties. Our goal is to provide you with the big picture and then help you with practical steps and ideas you can implement for you and your family.
  • Speakers include experts in nutrition, functional medicine, cardio, oncology and behavioral health, advocacy, safe environmental practices for your home, sustainable farming, local food sourcing, cooking demonstrations, holistic healing, meditation, yoga and much more.
  • Free health screenings and a vendor fair featuring local medical practices, healthcare facilities and businesses in the fitness, food, cosmetics and wellness education fields.
  • Proceeds help our local partner organizations (Monmouth Medical Center, the YMCA and the Visiting Nurse Association of New Jersey) to ensure vital nutrition and health information is available and accessible to all in our community. In addition, funds will help to revitalize or maintain local community gardens that offer free and fresh produce to local residents.
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Wednesday, November 14 • 11:00am - 11:20am
Learning Lecture - Home Detox: 10 Easy Steps to Eliminate Harmful Toxins and Chemicals from Your Home

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Most of us know that diet, sleep, and exercise are key to our health and well-being. What most of us don’t realize is that our physical environment – what we put on/in our bodies, in our home and in our air and water – is equally essential to good health and avoiding disease. Today,

> 1 in 10 kids is diagnosed with ADHD; chemical exposure is one of the factors attributed to its rise.
>  Inside homes, chemicals from paints, pesticides, personal care products and perfumes are found in concentrations 7x’s higher than ambient air & add now add as much to air pollution as cars.
Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Round Up, and its dramatically increased use in wheat harvesting, is linked to the rise of celiac disease, especially in adolescents.
>  There are several clear links between our climate’s health and human health – asthma and lung disease to name two.
>  Now, it’s confirmed that carbon emissions are sucking the nutrition out of our food.

So, what do all these trends have in common? The health of our environment plays a role in each one. We have all received to a slew of toxic exposures – no two are the same.

In this lecture, you’ll learn more about the link between toxic exposure and our health, how combat the problem and what it takes to create a healthier home environment. You’ll gain usable tips and practical tools to improve your home’s air and water quality, select safer products, and steer clear of indoor pollution. And once put into practice, you’ll improve your family’s health and wellness, save money, and make your home a place where your family can thrive!
Presenters
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Clare Broderick

Owner, LEED Sustainability Consultant, Greener Cleaner Living
Clare Broderick earned her Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.   She is a registered Leadership in Energy Efficient Design (LEED) Accredited Professional.  As a licensed professional consulting engineer... Read More →

Wednesday November 14, 2018 11:00am - 11:20am EST
Atrium D
  Learning Lecture (No Registration Required)