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Learn the Art and Science of Baking, Eating, and Sharing Bread as Lifestyle Medicine

The Sourdough Club is dedicated to promoting health through baking. It's a beautiful community learning space, connecting creative bakers with curious and kind-hearted people who care deeply about the environment and love to bake, eat, and share bread as lifestyle medicine.
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Baking As Lifestyle Medicine (BALM) Protocol

Learning Objective

To be an activist without evidence of a framework puts you in danger of being an ineffective anarchist.

We know that the task of building a just food system is also complex and urgent. We have to build a new food system together.

We support positive change by teaching you according to our evidence-based Baking as Lifestyle Medicine approach. So, our systems change programme is about enabling collective action by sharing knowledge and facilitating mutual support to some of the most challenging social and environmental problems we face today together, by making good bread accessible to all.

A Framework

It is a unique approach to optimising bread for optimal nutritional value whilst creating  connections between each part of the system, from soil to slice, building a community, and researching the impact that this approach to bread has on our physical and mental health

Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease.

In this key tutorial you will find out more about principles of how we approach baking and eating healthy bread.

Learning Outcome

This is an evidence based approach. Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease.

BALM Protocol is the framework for our multidisciplinary team of experts to teach you how to bake, eat and share bread as as Lifestyle Medicine.

You will become familiar with the Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Protocol as key to the teaching at The Sourdough School. You will discover how baking sourdough can nourish your gut microbiome, and improve you physical and mental health.

We are delighted you want to know more, but you have reached a members only page, post or recipe. 

Please click here to find out more about how we teach you to bake eat and share bread, and how in joining you can change the world. .. 

 

Vanessa Kimbell 

& The Sourdough School & Club Team

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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