Linda Larson-Schwartz, a long-time educator in Brookline and an expert on health and nutrition, spoke at a Sustainable Braintree meeting Thursday night on the upper level of Town Hall.

Below, in the auditorium, the Town Council was pushing through several regulations while Larson-Schwartz spoke to a small crowd upstairs about "simple steps to gain control over our diets with life-enhancing, health-giving foods and simple preparations."

She talked about how important it is to know your digestive system -- the key system in the body -- and how keeping your gut clean keeps the whole body healthy.

Sustainable Braintree member Donna Ingemanson said that the group then voted on a new set of steering committee members for 2011. Tomorrow, on Saturday from 9am to 1pm, the group's final indoor farmers market will take place inside Town Hall.