NTA Conferences
The Nutritional Therapy Association is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Nutritional Therapy Association Conference. The conference will be open to Nutritional Therapy Practitioners, students of NTA and others with an interest in nutrition and alternative healthcare. This year’s theme Inflammation: The Fire Within, will be addressed by presentations from nationally acclaimed speakers and local experts in the field of nutrition. The conference will take place in Vancouver, WA March 15th, 16th & 17th, 2013.
Speakers to Include:
Trudy Scott, CN
Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower women worldwide about the healing powers of food in order to find natural solutions for their anxiety, depression and sugar cravings.The author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood & End Cravings (June 2011), Trudy works with clients one-on-one and in groups, serving as a catalyst in bringing about life enhancing mood transformations that start with eating real whole food, using some pretty amazing nutrients and making simple lifestyle changes. She also presents nationally to health practitioners on food and mood, sharing all the recent food mood research and how-to steps so they too can educate and empower their clients and patients.Thousands of women who were anxious, stressed, overwhelmed, sad, over-weight and frustrated, are now loving their lives, feeling their healthiest, looking their best, and feeling on top of the world emotionally. Trudy is past president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals and a member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. You can learn more at www.everywomanover29.com and www.antianxietyfoodsolution.com.
Julie Daniluk RHN, NNCP, bestselling author of Meals That Heal Inflammation (Random House Canada), has helped thousands of people enjoy allergy-free foods that taste great and assist the body in the healing process. She is also the co-host of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Healthy Gourmet, a reality cooking show that highlights the ongoing battle between taste and nutrition. Julie is the recipient of the 2012 Canadian Health Food Association’s Organic Achievement Award. She also won the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the ‘Healthiest Cookbook’ in the Canadian Category. After four years of rigorous theater arts training at George Brown Theater College, Julie found herself reading more about nutrition than Shakespeare. She had an insatiable appetite for figuring out how and why food affects our health. She went back to school to become a nutritionist and graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Julie then went on to become a co-operative owner of one of Canada’s largest health food stores, The Big Carrot Natural Food Market, where she acted as the Chief In-Store Nutritionist for over 12 years. Julie also served on the board of the Canadian Health Food Association in 2000 and 2009. Julie has studied Culinary Arts at George Brown College and herbalism at Emerson Herbal College. Julie’s food activism has led her to speak to the Canadian Federal Government in Parliament about the potential health risks of genetically modified food. In order to bring food advocacy issues to a wider audience, Julie has been the event producer for festivals such as Bio-Diversity with David Suzuki and FoodShare’s Field to Table Festival.Julie’s search for nutritional understanding has taken her around the world. One of her greatest joy to date has been cooking on the Greenpeace tall sailing ship, The Rainbow Warrior, during its GE-free New Zealand tour.She enjoys contributing to various publications such as Readers Digest, Vitality, and Alive magazines. Julie is regularly featured as a health expert on the CTV’s Marilyn Denis Show and has a weekly spot as the CTV News Network’s nutritionist. Julie has made over 500 appearances on various TV and Radio Shows throughout North America including Dr. Oz, CTV’s Canada AM, City TV’s Breakfast Television, CBC Radio and the Global Morning Show. Julie’s book Meals That Heal Inflammation was released in the USA and UK in June 2012 through Hay House Publishers.
David Getoff is a Board Certified Traditional Naturopath, a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a Fellow of the American Association of Integrative medicine, an elected member of both the American College of Nutrition and the International College of Integrative Medicine, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Society for Nutrition and the vice president of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. He is also on the teaching faculty of the American College of Integrative Medicine and Dentistry. David is board certified in integrative medicine, has developed and produced over a dozen educational holistic health DVD’s on topics including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and detoxification and is the co-author of Reduce Blood Pressure Naturally. David is licensed or certified in either traditional naturopathy or nutrition in three states and has a waiting list private practice in El Cajon California. He has also developed the 10 week course entitled Attaining Optimal Health in the 21st Century which he has been teaching to packed classrooms through the Grossmont/Cuyamaca College district, every semester for the past 18+ years. This 25 hour course is now available to be purchased by the public, and viewed on-line through the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. David has been a paid presenter at numerous scientific medical, nutritional, dental and organic agriculture conferences around the U.S. and has given many all day seminars on diet, supplements and detoxification. His web site can be reached at either www.Naturopath4you.com or www.DavidGetoff.com and all of his recorded video and audio presentations are available for purchase from the non-profit Price-Pottenger Foundation at www.ppnf.org.
Jerry is a highly demanded lecturer and speaker, both nationally and internationally, on topics that include soil fertility, animal nutrition and livestock health. As a result of healing himself of a life threatening episode of cancer utilizing holistic modalities, he is often speaking to audiences about the relationship of “Food as Medicine” and “Farm as Farmacy.” Jerry bridges natural and scientific understandings of plant and animal “ecosystems,” such as digestion in soils (decomposition), digestion of foods (fermentation) and the digestion that takes place in the GI tract of animals/humans. Jerry’s “connect-the-dots” systems approach helps farmers and ranchers understand how the health of people and their communities are linked to healthy land, healthy animals and healthy produce.
Dr. John Crescione, D.C., D.I.C.S., F.I.A.C.A. is the official chiropractor for the NY JETS football team, and for a select number of players from the NY ISLANDERS hockey team and New York State GOLDEN GLOVES boxers. He maintains a family oriented practice, as well as specializing in sports injuries, women’s health issues and hard to treat chiropractic cases. He was voted International Chiropractor of the year for 2004 and is the past President and Vice President of SORSI, the organization founded by its developer Dr. MB DeJarnette, DC, DO. He is a Diplomate in Craniopathy, certified by the International Craniopathic Society and the SORSI Board of Examiners. Dr Crescione is also the Chairman of the Chiropractic College Committee. He maintains Fellowship status with the International Academy of Clinical Acupuncture and Chinese National Chi Gung Institute. Dr Crescione has trained in both China and Hong Kong. His practice utilizes S.O.T., A.K., Cranial Sacral Therapy, Diversified Full Spine Technique and Activator. He also incorporates Chinese Medicine, Chinese Tui Na soft tissue manipulation, electric Acupuncture point stimulation, visceral manipulation and organ reflex therapy as well as Eastern and Western Nutrition concepts and herbology.
Jack Challem, B.A., A.S.N., is one of America’s most trusted nutrition experts and writers and a member of the American Society for Nutrition. He is the bestselling author of many books, including The Inflammation Syndrome, No More Fatigue, Stop Prediabetes Now, The Food-Mood Solution, and Syndrome X. Jack is a columnist for Alternative & Complementary Therapies and his scientific articles have also appeared in Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, and Medical Hypotheses.
Dr. Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D., is an author, speaker, certified nutritionist, and naturopathic physician. He has written over 20 books including The Coconut Oil Miracle, Eat Fat, Look Thin, and The New Arthritis Cure. He is the publisher and editor of the Healthy Ways Newsletter and serves as the president of the Coconut Research Center, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate the public and medical community about the health and nutritional aspects of coconut and related foods. Dr. Fife is considered one of the world’s leading experts on dietary fats and oils. He is a popular speaker and travels throughout the world lecturing at health fairs, conferences, hospitals, and spas. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs worldwide.
Dr. Katherine Poehlmann, PhD, is the author of two self-help books on arthritis and autoimmune disease emphasizing a non-toxic, holistic, functional medicine approach to deal with chronic illness. Her website, www.RA-Infection-Connection.com, presents dozens of free health articles and ongoing research into timely topics such as benign treatments for polymicrobial infections and viral epidemics, essential nutrition, the role of biofilms, new understanding of good/bad fats, and avoiding certain dangers in biological drugs, vaccines, and particular medical system practices. Katherine is on the Board of Directors for two nonprofit medical foundations.
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