Mental Balance with Orthomolecular Nutrition

Saturday, November 7
1:15 - 2:00 pm
Presented by Talya Rotem
Community Liaison, ISF

Depressed? Anxious? Stressed out? This presentation will offer a basic introduction to Orthomolecular Medicine, an approach that uses diet and supplementation to address nutritional deficiencies that may cause many of these mental imbalances.

Admission: $5.00 with coupon, $10 without

At Oakville’s Third Annual Wholistic Women’s Fair
Saturday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Holiday Inn
590 Argus Road (Trafalgar Road & QEW)
Oakville

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Healing the New Childhood Epidemics

Friday, October 30, 2009
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

A public lecture by Kenneth Bock, MD
Director, Rhinebeck Health Center, New York

In a rare opportunity, Dr Bock, a leading physician in integrative medicine, discusses his comprehensive Healing Program that targets all four of the 4-A childhood epidemics. His remarkable Healing Program is an innovative biomedical approach that has changed the lives of more than a thousand children. Drawn on medical research and based on years of clinical success, this program offers a safe, sensible solution that is individualized to each child to help remedy the root causes. Dr Bock also shares the dramatic true stories of parents and children that will inspire you to change the life of your own child.

Admission: $20.00

Medical Sciences Building
JJR MacLeod Auditorium
1 King’s College Circle
University of Toronto

Registration is required as space is limited.

Co-sponsored by the Canadian Society for Orthomolecular Medicine and Orthomolecular Health.

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Feed Your Head

Screening Premiere at the Rendezvous with Madness
Film Festival

Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Joseph Workman Theatre
CAMH, 1001 Queen Street West
Toronto

• In 1998, the ISF produced the documentary Masks of Madness: The Science of Healing.
  
  
• In 2008, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch, directed and produced FoodMatters .
  
  
• Now, in 2009, the International Schizophrenia Foundation is proud to premiere the new documentary "Feed Your Head" at the Workman Arts’ Rendezvous with Madness Film festival in Toronto.

If you plan on attending any orthomolecular event this year, make sure it's this one!

Feed Your Head takes the viewer on a bio-chemical journey from a deserted mental hospital in Weyburn, Saskatchewan through the nutritional wasteland of Western Civilization.

Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in the middle of nowhere, on the Canadian Prairie, but these idealistic doctors revolutionized the field of mental health on a global scale. They're gone now, but their legacy lives on. Their radical ideas about a bio-chemical cause of schizophrenia were widely ridiculed in their day. The conclusions they reached are gaining acceptance now, and they have implications for us all.

“Feed Your Head” brings the past alive in the present day; blending archival images with vibrant contemporary footage to tell the story of a timeless concept: we are what we eat. The future of medicine lays at the convergence of science and hope. Featuring interviews with orthomolecular practitioners and patients. Music played by Anton Kuerti and the Blue Engine String Quartet.

The premiere will include a 15 minute version of the documentary "Masks of Madness: The Science of Healing", followed by the screening of "Feed Your Head". A panel discussion will follow. The film’s Director, Connie Littlefield of Conceptafilm, will be in attendance at the screening.

Admission: $5 for the first 50 people to order directly from the ISF office. $10 after that or at the door.

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Stress and How to Cope With It

Wednesday, November 25, 7:30 pm

Presented by Karen Hack, BSc, ND

Join us for our third presentation in the Public Information Series. Learn from Dr. Hack about the physiology of stress, its effects on your body and what how nutrients can reduce its impact.

Admission: $5.00

OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Room 5250
Registration is required as space is limited. View Flyer.

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Big Daddy Tazz: Outa My Mind

Saturday, November 7, 2009
8:00 pm

Comic Performance at the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival. Party and panel discussion to follow show.

The Canadian comic is well known for his “Bipolar Buddha” routine, which is a humorous approach to mental illness. After years of struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, Tazz finally sought treatment and today he controls his illness with behavioural therapy and spirituality, particularly Buddhism.

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Admission: $25.00

Workman Arts
651 Dufferin Street
Toronto
(Note: this location is different than the location for the screening of Feed Your Head)

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