Nutrition Beyond Restriction: The Importance of Pleasure in Long-Term Health

Modern nutrition advice often focuses on restriction, optimization, and biological metrics. But emerging research suggests that the experience of eating, including taste, enjoyment, ritual, and satisfaction, may play a much larger role in long-term health than many people realize.

In this lecture, Johnna Rey Hartenstine, Registered Dietitian, Certified Sommelier, and nutrition researcher, explores the intersection of nutrition science and sensory experience. Drawing from her background in molecular biology and years spent inside some of Napa Valley’s most exclusive wine estates, she examines why even people with unlimited access to “the best” food and wine still struggle to understand what truly nourishes them.

Blending nutrition science, psychology, and sensory experience, this talk explores why pleasure may not be separate from health at all, but part of the mechanism that helps sustain it.

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Speaker: Johnna Hartenstine, Dietitian and Sommelier