We all have an intimate connection with food and the environment.
Sustainable Living & Mindful Eating explores the interconnected nature between food choices, sustainability, and health and wellness. Examined are the array of forces that affect the foods human beings eat, and when, where, and how we eat them, including human labor, agriculture, environmental sustainability, politics, animal rights/welfare, public policy, culture, economics, business, trade, and psychology.
Sustainable Living & Mindful Eating addresses the impact of current policies and actions that might be taken to improve human nutrition and health and the macro-scale influences on food, nutrition, and eating behavior. Combining the bio/psycho/social aspects of nutrition to fully address healthful eating and sustainability, the book’s design is to support dietary improvements which reduces the environmental impacts of food choices through developing an understanding of how behaviors related to food and nutrition can facilitate health balance for individuals and for the environment.
Various interactive opportunities in the book allow for reflection on personal food histories and habits and exposure to whole foods and sustainable eating through the variety of topics covered. The practices of Mindfulness and Mindful Eating are introduced as the cornerstones of a sustainable strategy to promote effortless weight management throughout the lifespan.
Chapter 1: Sustainable Living, Mindful Eating
Chapter 2: Food Energetic Systems
Chapter 3: The Brain and Food
Chapter 4: The Truth About Sugar
Chapter 5: The Truth About Fat, Sugar, and Salt: The War for Your Taste buds
Chapter 6: Food Marketing to Children: The Socialization of Food Preferences
Chapter 7: Sustainable Living, Food Production, and Animal Welfare
Chapter 8: Food and the Environment
Chapter 9: Mindful Eating—A Sustainable Practice for Lifelong Weight Maintenance
Chapter 10: Sustainable Living & Mindful Eating Through the Lifespan
Lisa
Schmidt
Lisa
Schmidt, MS, CN, CEBS, CYT is a Faculty Associate at the Arizona State
University Integrative Health Initiatives Program where she teaches courses on
mindfulness skills for stress management.
As a Certified Nutritionist, mindfulness consultant, mental health
counselor and Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT) in private practice, she supports
whole person health throughout the lifespan teaching healthful eating and
stress management using science based mind-body interventions. Ms. Schmidt has incorporated the practice of
mindfulness in corporate employee benefits design, and consults and speaks
internationally with companies and as a conference presenter. Ms. Schmidt is the owner of Mindful Benefits,
which provides tools and practices that enhance the way we live and encourages
non-judgment, kindness, curiosity & compassion leading to changing
longstanding habits that impact our health.
She is a graduate of Bastyr University, with dual MS degrees in
Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology, and a Certified Employee Benefits
Professional (CEBS).
Maria
Napoli
Maria Napoli, PhD, is Emeritus Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Work. She has incorporated the practice of mindfulness in her research, teaching, trainings and presentations at conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Napoli has developed mindfulness programs for elementary school children, undergraduate and graduate students including a graduate certificate in integrative health.
The Mindfulness Model used in the curriculum is the simple four step Mindful MAC Guide created by Dr. Napoli. She has published in academic journals and books as well as audios reflecting her work in whole person health and mindfulness.