Bauman Culinary Arts: Food For Health

Restoring America's health is a key in recovering our esteem, financial health and quality of life. While Washington's divisive health care debate rages on, another kind of health care revolution is steadily taking place in America, one where integrative medicine and health and wellness programs are becoming recognized as being an integral part of the health care solution. The health promotion industry is an idea whose time has come.

Americans want and need wellness education that builds self-health reliance and shifts away from passive lifestyle and coping patterns. The U.S. health system's current focus on disease management (>96% of health care costs) offers little opportunity for health promotion (<4% of health care cost) programs. Medical care tends to treat an individual's illness post-diagnosis, without investing in either wellness care or disease prevention. Holistic nutrition is being recognized as a powerful tool promoting optimal health, preventing disease, helping in the healing of chronic illness, and fostering the joy of eating well.

Over the last 20 years Bauman College has been a leader in the development of whole food nutrition and culinary education in America with graduates working as Nutrition Educators, Nutrition Consultants and Natural Chefs. These graduates are well positioned to have fulfilling and successful careers as the demand for skilled holistic nutrition professionals grows. They are helping Americans embrace change, cultivate healthy lifestyles and transition towards eating whole fresh foods, instead of denatured, commercially processed food.

No other nutrition program, short of a four-year naturopathic college, demonstrates the duration, depth and breadth of commitment to academic excellence and practical application that Bauman College offers. Bauman College students come from many different walks of life. Some students are working healthcare professionals desiring to include nutrition in their practice; others are developing or changing their career path, and some come to learn valuable nutrition information and/or culinary skills to improve the health of themselves and their families.

Bauman College programs teach students an in-depth understanding of biochemical individuality that calls for specific food selection and carefully considered, well-researched therapeutic nutrients. The curriculum, developed by Edward Bauman, Ph.D., emphasizes the use of whole, organic foods, nutritive herbs, and appropriate supplementation to restore metabolic balance. Its Eating For Health™ approach to holistic, sustainable nutrition and health education is non-dogmatic, seeking to find the ideal diet and lifestyle uniquely suited to each individual. This approach differs sharply from the simplistic, quick-fix diet trends pervading the media, which promise remarkable results for everyone.

Bauman College also provides graduates with business tools for success such as business and marketing skill development training, internship and externship opportunities, job postings, graduate referrals, and continuing education.

There are classroom locations in California in the cities of Berkeley, Penngrove, and Santa Cruz, and in Colorado in the city of Boulder. Bauman College also offers Distance Learning, too.

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