About New Leaf's Community Classroom Educators
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JENNIFER BREWER
After years of yo-yo dieting, Chef Jenny turned her major struggle in life (food) into her passion (FOOD!) and is on a mission to help people feel great in their bodies while eating delicious food! She’s a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts in New York City and has a Masters degree in Nutrition. Chef Jenny is the co-host of Green Tea and Honey, a weekly radio show about food, health and the joys of eating. Her recipes have appeared on numerous websites and publications and she is a regular contributor to Delicious Living magazine. In addition, she has created a Healthy Meal Planning Service that makes it easy to cook nourishing, whole food meals at home. Learn more at www.jennybrewer.com.
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LAUREN HOOVER-WEST
Lauren Hoover–West was classically trained at The California Culinary Academy as a Chef/Educator/Consultant specializing in food allergies and health issues, including Diabetes, Autism, Celicac’s Disease, Autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions. Lauren has appeared and cooked on ABC Live in Chicago and Sacramento as well as cooked for 4 United States Presidents and a United States Senator. She has created a revolutionary way to cook delicious food that is gluten-free, dairy-free, low glycemic index and healthy. Author of No Wheat No Dairy No Problem cookbook and a blog site, she has 20 years of cooking and teaching experience at La Folie, Fairmont, Hyatt Resorts, Bally’s, and the Marriott. She is also the owner of Lauren’s Kitchen Biscotti Company. For more information visit: www.NoWheatNoDairyNoProblem.com
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AMY FOTHERGILL
Amy Fothergill has over 25 years of cooking experience. She was trained at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration,
a world renowned, ivy league hospitality school. She has worked in
restaurants, catering and healthcare foodservice. Now that she is a
mother of two, she has adapted her technical cooking knowledge to make
the whole family happy, even those with certain allergies. She will
teach you how to cook healthy, easy and, most importantly, delicious
food. Visit www.amythefamilychef.com to learn more about Chef Amy.
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REBECCA ROVAY-HAZELTON
Rebecca is Certified Personal Trainer, Licensed Certified Nutritionist, Certified
Metabolic Typing® Advisor, and Egoscue Method® Postural Alignment
Specialist. Her passion is working with people to make positive changes
in their lives, and she wants to help you! She has an arsenal of tools ready to help you live a healthier life. Learn more at: choosinghealthnow.com
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TALYA LUTZKER
Talya has always been fascinated with health, the human body & food. For
more than twelve years, she have studied all three, not only as an
Ayurvedic Practitioner, Nutrition and Health Counselor, but also as a
Massage Therapist, Anatomy Teacher, Yoga Student and Certified Yoga
Instructor. Visit Talya online at: www.talyaskitchen.com
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MELISSA MANGO
Melissa has been on the Live Foods path Since 2001 having her own catering company and private chef service. She has paired up with Iowa Community College, and the ACF
(American Culinary Federation) for professional demos and later
taught The Chef De Cuisine Idaho chapter, the art of Live Cuisine. She has been a featured chef in many places including: the filming of RawFor30Days: Healing Diabetes Naturally, The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, The Raw 50 by Carol Alt, The Raw Spirit Fest and the G Living TV show. She also opened California’s first South Bay Raw-Vegan, Eco-friendly cafe, Terra Bella Cafe. melissamangosgreencuisine.blogspot.com |
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WELL KIDDOS
A Half Moon Bay organization led by Manuela Seitz-Hipkins, Well Kiddos advocates providing children with
healthy food choices when dining in or out. A mother of three young
children and a pediatric Speech and Language Pathologist, Seitz-Hipkins
has developed a deep respect for the connection between nutritional
habits of the children she treated and the effectiveness of their
therapy. Her goal is for children to have a chance to develop lifelong
healthy eating habits, and her vision is to change Kid’s Menus in
restaurants locally and nationally, “one restaurant and one family at a
time”. Find Well Kiddos online at: www.wellkiddos.com
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| BRAD WEST
Dr. Brad West is a graduate of National College of Naturopathic
Medicine. His focus and training is in holistic medicine and family
care. Dr. Brad has worked with the
Massage Zone since 1998 and from this wonderful experience decided to take it a
step further with formal medical training. He now uses physical medicine,
detoxification and deep healing through fasting, drainage/homeopathy, nutrition
and food-as-medicine, exercise therapeutics, targeted supplementation,
bioidentical HRT and functional labwork. His emphasis is on chronic
disease treatment, prevention, nature-cure, endocrinology and gastroenterology
as well as Chronic fatigue and pain. For
more info visit www.DrBradWest.com
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| TONI JULIAN-APGAR
Toni has empowered thousands of people through her proven techniques, tools and meal solutions published in her recent book entitled BITE ME! Change Your Life One Bite at a Time. Her recipes and clean cooking style have been adopted by families wanting to improve the quality of their lives—as well as how they look and feel—and restaurants and hospitals have incorporated her recipes to improve their food quality offerings. Toni earned a Bachelor degree from San Jose State, her IBNFC Nutrition Coach Certification, and a Personal Training Certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. As a personal challenge, she participated in natural figure competitions and tied for first place. Visit www.tonijulian.com for more informaiton.
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KELLY CORNELL
Kelly Cornell is a holistic nutrition coach, the founder of www.kellycornellwellness.com, nutrition writer for the San Jose Examiner, and motivational speaker on the subject of health, wellness and nutrition. She specializes in helping women over forty improve their health, lose weight permanently without dieting, boost their energy, correct digestive issues, and live life with purpose and joy.
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DR. VALERIE SPIER
Dr. Valerie Spier, DC, RN, MS has been bridging the application of conventional wisdom with inner wisdom, for over 30 years. She received her doctorate of chiropractic at Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward, CA and graduated magna cum laude, in 2006. Prior to becoming a chiropractor Dr. Valerie
completed a Bachelor’s degree in nursing and Master’s degree in exercise science and has been practicing as a registered nurse for the past 3 decades, specializing in cardiology. She currently practices Network Care, a cutting edge form of
chiropractic, with her partner, Dr. Barry Roland, DC, at the Sun Center for Well Being, located in Miramar Beach and found online at: www.thesuncenter.com
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