The teachings I share in a real food reasoning session are drawn from my lived experience applying the research and life-work of a number of celebrated leaders in the field of natural holistic nutrition. These are my mentors:
Queen Afua is an internationally renowned certified holistic health specialist who practices from a uniquely Afrocentric spiritual perspective. She has guided thousands of women and men in the art and science of natural living. Her bestseller, Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity, forever changed the way African Americans practice holistic health and in her book, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing The Feminine Body, Mind and Spirit, she responds to the current health crisis facing African American women, by taking them on a transforming journey of physical, emotional and ancestral healing designed to restore the magnificence of their spirits through Sacred Initiation.
Kevin Gianni is a health advocate, author and speaker. He has helped thousands of people in over 85 countries learn how to take control of their health--and keep it. The Health Renegade Show, Kevin's popular internet TV show, provides lively and critical commentary on natural health, green living, vegan and raw food diets, holistic nutrition and more.
Dr Joel Fuhrman is an American board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing obesity and chronic disease through nutritional and natural methods. Fuhrman coined the word nutritarian to label people who adopt a lifestyle of micronutrient-rich nutrition.
Dr Fuhrman is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestseller Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss and his newest release Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger and Disease Free.
Victoria Boutenko (of the well known Boutenko family) is a researcher and the inventor of the green smoothie and the author of Green for Life, Raw Family and 12 Steps to Raw Food. The Boutenko family embraced a raw vegan nutrition in 1994, when they became seriously ill. This lifestyle enabled them to heal all of their health problems. Boutenko’s groundbreaking research findings on the abundance of protein in greens and the healing power of chlorophyll provide us with the keys to restoring and increasing health and well-being. Victoria teaches classes on healthy living all over the world inspiring millions of people to drink green smoothies and eat mostly raw whole and unprocessed foods.
Dr Gabriel Cousins is a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona. He uses the modalities of live-food nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit.
Dr William Davis
In his best selling book Wheat Belly, Dr Davis a cardiologist points to a wheat-free diet as being one of the most powerful health strategies we can apply today. Wheat Belly tells the good new stories of how Dr Davis' patients are going wheat-free and dropping the pounds and leaving their meds behind.
Dr. Michael Klaper is a physician with training in surgery, anesthesiology, orthopedics, emergency room medicine and obstetrics and a practitioner of preventative and nutritional medicine.
As Dr. Klaper's medical career progressed, he began to realize that many of the diseases his patients brought to his office - clogged arteries (atherosclerosis) high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult onset diabetes, and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and other significant illnesses - were made worse, or actually caused, by the high-fat, overly processed Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).
This prompted him to undertake a serious study of the link between diet and disease, eventually leading him to implement nutritionally-based therapies in his practice. He is the director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research and has performed research on the pros and cons of vegan nutrition.
International bestselling author and filmmaker Jeffery Smith is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology and a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of GMOs. His books include Seeds of Deception and Genetic Roulette, and his films include Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals, Your Milk on Drugs Just Say No!, and a new documentary due out in early summer 2012.
Dr Will Tuttle 's best-seller The World Peace Diet examines the many pitfalls of our past, present and future consumption habits and reliance on animal products and how they negatively impact all life forms on earth.