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Meet our cast of real food experts
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Caroline Granger, The Grange Winery
Caroline Granger was recently appointed to the board of directors of Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The Grange of Prince Edward Vineyards & Estate Winery is a family run business established in 2002 by Robert Granger and his daughter Caroline on the original Loyalist patented Trumpour farm. The Grange is proud of the history of its farm and is dedicated to producing delicious VQA wines of quality.
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Gene Baur, author of Animal Sanctuary
Gene Baur grew up in Hollywood, California and worked in television, film and commercials, including some for McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants. Today, he campaigns to raise awareness about the negative consequences of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. He lives in rural New York state and is the co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America's leading farm animal protection organization.
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David Wolfe, author of SuperFoods
With a masters degree in nutrition, and a background in science and mechanical engineering, David Wolfe is considered one of the world’s top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbalism, chocolate, and organic superfoods. Leading the field with his vision, mission, education, and business, David has over 15 years of dedicated experience and understanding of the inner workings, the delicate chemistry, and hardcore mechanics of the human body.
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Puma Quispe Singona, Shaman
Puma plays an active role in world affairs by sitting on several international and indigenous councils including the World Wisdom Council, whose honorary chair is Mikhail Gorbachyev. Through this work, he is ensuring the contribution of indigenous wisdom toward strengthening the vision of global harmony and healing.
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Brendan Brazier, author of The Thrive Diet
Brendan Brazier is one of only a few professional athletes in the world whose diet is 100 percent plant-based. He’s a professional Ironman triathlete, bestselling author on performance nutrition, and the creator of an award-winning line of whole food nutritional products called VEGA. He is also a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. His focus is to draw attention to the role that food plays in the prevention of most chronic diseases currently plaguing North Americans.
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Johann Kleinssasser, owner of Whole Circle Farm
Johann believes that organic agriculture is much more than avoiding herbicides and pesticides. He feels sustainable agriculture incorporates the health of all things: the soil, the natural ecosystem, the farmers, the community, and individual people. Taking a ‘wholistic’ and biodynamic approach, Whole Circle Farm considers what is best for the entire web of life and farm accordingly.
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Nimisha Raja, founder of Evolving Appetites
Nimisha has been vegetarian from birth, and evolved into a vegan more than 10 years ago. She has always had a passion for food and a keen interest in total health encompassing mind, body and spirit. Her volunteer work over the past 11 years with the Toronto Vegetarian Association (TVA) includes giving lectures and workshops to schools, seniors’ centers and other groups on vegetarian related issues.
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Yasser Qahawish, owner of Artisanale
Yasser is best known as acclaimed chef of Osgoode Hall Restaurant at the Law Society of Upper Canada in downtown Toronto where over his eight years as chef, he turned it into a destination for lunch. He is extremely passionate about French food and culture, although his background is Middle-Eastern. He has trained with top chefs in Toronto and worked for famed Ontario chefs Jamie Kennedy. He believes in sustainable organic farming and prepares seasonally appropriate menus for Artisanale.
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Brian Clement, Ph.D., L.N.C. , co-Director of Hippocrates Health Institute
In his role as a progressive educator, Brian has conducted countless seminars, lectures, and educational programs, traveling extensively to more than 25 countries around the globe. At home in the United States, he has taken the message of this widely successful program to the entire country. In recent years he has been commissioned by government supported organizations to establish, organize, and direct health programs in Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, and India.
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Denise Altenburg, founder of The Nutritional Gourmet
Since the late 70's, when she took her first gourmet class in food preparation, she has been dedicated to bringing people back to ‘real food' and making ‘food fun'. A lifetime of ill health and seeing many loved ones (including her sister) make themselves unhealthy due to dieting led her to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist in 1990 followed by Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner's license.
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Ron Weston
Since the late 70's, when she took her first gourmet class in food preparation, she has been dedicated to bringing people back to ‘real food' and making ‘food fun'. A lifetime of ill health and seeing many loved ones (including her sister) make themselves unhealthy due to dieting led her to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist in 1990 followed by Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner's license.
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Paul Nison, owner of RawLife.com
Raw food chef and Author Paul Nison has been eating a raw food diet since he was diagnosed with Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) many years ago. With no other choice but drugs or surgery according to the medical profession, Paul decided to eat a raw food diet. Today he is 100% cured of this so-called "incurable disease." He travels the world giving lectures on the raw food nutrition and raw food prep classes to show people how easy and fun the raw life can be.
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John Kohler, owner of RawFoods.com
In his early 20's John was hospitalized with a life threatening illness, spinal meningitis. The medical doctors said he might not make it... Luckily, he made it... and was told he had a weak immune system which caused the health crisis. After finding living and raw foods and making other lifestyle changes, John is now healthier than ever.
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Colleen Nyman, co-owner of JC Nyman Farms
Colleen Nyman is co-owner of a family owned, ethically run, value-added local-food producing farm. They strive to be a source of information and community development allowing our customers to get intimately in touch with the origins of their food. She believes firmly in sustaining the health and welfare of the animals, plants, living organisms in the soil and the environment, and the family running the business.
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Philip McCluskey, founder of Loving Raw
Philip McCluskey found the secret to overcoming obesity, healthy weight loss, and vibrant living! Overweight his entire life, he moved from chubbiness, morbidly obesity, to finally being 400 lbs. He started his raw foods journey on May 1st 2006. In about 5 months lost 75 lbs and was down to 325 lbs, then lost an additional 25lbs over the next 6 months. He shares his message through inspirational blogs, videos, pictures, and advice, and touring the country.
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Matt Monarch, owner of Raw Spirit
Prior to going raw, Matt Monarch worked in a demanding corporate environment and ate a standard American bachelor's diet, including cooked meats, dairy, bread, greasy foods and candy. He decided to whole-heartedly embrace the raw lifestyle as something that made complete sense to him. He was particularly attracted to the fact that this lifestyle offered increased longevity and freedom from degenerative disease.
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Angela Stokes, owner of Raw Reform
Angela Stokes went from about 19 stone (266lbs/120kg), UK dress size 26-28 to UK dress size 10. She can now wear whatever clothes she likes, eat delicious raw food daily and takes great pleasure in treating herself well.
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Trent Rhode, permaculture specialist
Bio coming soon...
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Cheryl Millett, health coach
Cheryl Millett BSc NNCP CCIr has a degree in Holistic Nutrition, and a diploma in Iridology with a specialty interest in digestion. For over 19 years, she has worked for one of Canada’s largest grocery retailers with experience in the food processing area. She practices nutritional consulting with a belief in raw foods, omegas, enzymes, nutritional cleansing and minerals. She gives her clients the education and tools to create a better quality of life. Living the life of healthier possibilities!
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Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby, author of Diet Wise
Qualified in medicine MB ChB (same as MD) in Manchester, UK in 1970. Almost immediately jumped the fence into controversial alternatives. Started the first successful Food and Environmental Allergy Clinic in 1979 which rapidly spread to Harley St (London), Glasgow, Dublin and Stockholm. His recent book Diet Wise is the summation of 30 years advanced clinical work. It tells you why there is no set diet for health; why what YOU need to eat for vitality and a long life differs completely from everyone else!
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