Integrative Diet and Nutrition
Sample Cooking Session
David Mainenti, L.Ac., C.A., Dipl. OM
Katherine De Lia MSW L Ac Dipl OM
I n t e g r a t I v e D I e t & N u t r I t I o n
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Table of Contents
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Overview
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Menu
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Recipes
• Pureed Squash Soup with Fresh Ginger and Cilantro
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• Carrot, Burdock, and Onion Sauté
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• Twice Cooked Kale or Collard Greens
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• Black Seaweed with Ginger and Garlic
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• Raw & Cooked Vegetable Salad with Dressing
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• Roast Yams or Sweet Potato
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• Pan Seared Fish
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Ingredient List
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Integrative Diet & Nutrition
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Overview
Introduction
Eco‐Med LLC can be contracted to design and deliver cooking sessions to help individuals learn how to use the
energetic and classical healing properties of foods to improve the health and well‐being of themselves their
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families, or their discriminating clientele. When developing a personalized dietary regimen, we take into
consideration natural dietary principles, eating habits, taste preferences, seasonality, and specific food actions
and indications. We also focus on concepts such as selection of ingredients, items to avoid, foods to utilize,
specific preparation methods, cooking tips, whole food recipes, menu planning and the like. The purpose of
this cooking session is to improve one’s understanding of these important terms.
Strategy
The key strategy of this sample session is to learn how to eliminate troublesome foods and introduce foods
that treat what the East consider to be a disharmony in the digestive system
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Western Translation: “you have a dietary imbalance, so we need to eliminate problematic foods from the
body that are difficult to digest.” When going on an elimination diet, it often means one must learn to
cook meals without grains, sugar, yeast, soy sauce, alcohol, mushrooms, or other items that add to or
increase the level of toxicity in the body
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Eastern Translation: “ your digestive s