ABOUT THE BOOK
In the book, One Bite at a Time: Reduce Toxic Exposure and Eat the World you Want, authors Tabitha McIntosh and Dr. Sarah Lantz offer a better understanding of consumer and industrial chemicals and their impact on the human body – and importantly, the concrete steps needed to both reduce toxic exposure and build body resiliency.
It’s in the later – build body resiliency – where the focus of the book really takes shape. Food is our focus here. Why? Firstly, conscious food choices can significantly reduce (or eliminate) toxic exposure; secondly, particular food components can build body resiliency against toxic exposure; and thirdly, food choices can provide a high ground of ethics with systemic solutions to the issue of human and environmental toxicity and pollution.
Across Australia there are some significant movements and ethical businesses sprouting up and pushing back in response to the industrial food industry. And in this book you are going to hear from those heroes of our food world – producers, farmers, pickers packers, bakers, makers, researchers, food writers and bloggers – people taking matter into their own hands and creating happier, heartier, healthier solutions for other Australians. Ultimately, food has the power to connect us – to ourselves, or bodies and to each other. Ultimately this book is a journey from disconnection, separation, and alienation — to connection, fulfilment, wholeness, and healing — one bite at a time.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
DR SARAH LANTZ
BA (HONS) PG DIP NUTRITION. PHD
Sarah has tertiary qualifications in sociology, public health and postgraduate qualifications in nutrition and toxicology. She was then awarded her PhD from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Youth Research Centre, received her post-doctoral research fellowship from the University of Queensland and was awarded an international scholarship from the University of Sydney. Her first book released in 2009, Chemical Free Kids: Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World, is a bestselling publication. Sarah is currently the owner of the green enterprise Roots in Nature Pty Ltd (trading as Buchi Kombucha), a fermentation and gut-health enterprise based in Brisbane. She has been an ambassador for Australian Certified Organic (ACO) and the Chemical Free Community, and is an active member of Slow Food Australia. Sarah regularly presents nutrition, gut-health and fermentation workshops across Australia to engage parents and health practitioners in issues of building resiliency via whole food in children and families.
TABITHA MCINTOSH
N.D., B. MEDICAL SCIENCE
Tabitha is a respected Naturopath, clinical Nutritionist and Educator with over a decade of clinical experience. She takes great pride in providing her clients and their families with high quality naturopathic care, integrating Naturopathic healing principles with the latest scientific research to educate and empower them.
Absolutely passionate about improving the health of everyone she comes in contact with, a focus of her practice is working with women, couples, families and infants; educating around the hidden dangers of environmental chemicals; implementing therapeutic diets; and using food as medicine to help her treasured clients reach their full potential. Tabitha’s impressive resume includes successful full time private consulting, spanning more than a decade, presenting at conferences around Australia, lecturing in Nutrition at major Natural Health colleges in Sydney, International Community Health Assessment work, and contributing to Natural Medicine textbooks and major publications.
