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Considered (by his wife and children) to be the most brilliant author in the universe, writer/producer Jeff Nelson has written and produced commercials, documentaries (Processed People), TV movies, a 5-hour NBC mini-series ("On Wings of Eagles"), and is author of bestselling books such as Handwriting Analysis: Putting It to Work for You and Sue the Bastards: Everything You Need to Go to -- or Stay Out of -- Court.

Along with his wife, Sabrina, Jeff is the owner/operator of VegSource.com, the most popular veggie website on the Internet.

VegSource puts on the annual Healthy Lifestyle Expo and uses a variety of ways to promote plant-strong eating.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, twin daughters Nina and Randa, son Willie, and three cats.

A psycho Glenn Beck-loving Republican, and proud of it.

Hi. My name is Miranda Nelson, and I am a lifelong vegan. I love being vegan because it is helpful to the environment, the suffering animals, and my health. People always ask me, "Is it hard to be vegan?" And I say, "NO WAY! It's so easy!" There are so many different types of rices,whole grain breads and cereals, beans, vegetables, and fruits. How could I not find something to eat?! I usually eat at home because it's less expensive, and I love the food I eat! I don't see how any other food could taste as good as the food I eat. I love whole wheat pasta with no salt added marinara sauce and vegetables. I always like to add a little bit of soy sauce and raw garlic spread. When my friends come over to my house, they always say, "WOW! This food is so good!" A lot of people don't give vegan food a chance. They just think, "EW, vegetables!" But eating vegan food not-only tastes amazing, it also makes you feel great! I dance around 3 to 4 hours a day, so I need to have substantial energy. I truly don't think I could be as active as I am if I didn't eat a plant-based diet. If any of you out there have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

GO VEGANS!

Walter E. Jacobson, M.D. Cognitive psychiatrist. Transformational Life Coach. Speaker/Author. Emphasizing the power of spiritual solutions and cognitive tools to generate happiness, well-being and material success. Visit Dr. Jacobson's blog at: http://walterjacobsonmd.wordpress.com Follow Dr. Jacobson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/walterdoc

Vegan, vegan sexual, lover of life.

Patti Breitman is an advocate for animals and health, a writer and expert public speaker. She is a former food columnist for VegNews magazine and teaches cooking classes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives. Patti is the director of The Marin Vegetarian Education Group (www.MarinVEG.org), a project of VegNews network.  She is the author (with Connie Hatch) of How to Say No without Feeling Guilty, and (with Carol J. Adams) of  How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One.

craft maker, meat faker, butt shaker

My name is Kari, but you can call me Agnes.

Bryanna is the author of 8 popular vegan cookbooks, including vegan bestseller "Nonna's Italian Kitchen", and is co-author of several others. She writes the popular subscription newsletter, The Vegan Feast, and maintains a vegan cooking blog.

Bryanna has devoted over 40 years to the study of cooking and nutrition, the last 20 to vegan cooking. Eighteen of her (pre-vegetarian) recipes appeared in The Harrowsmith Cookbook, Vol. I and some in The Harrowsmith Pasta Cookbook, as well. She wrote newspaper cooking columns for over 20 years, wrote and edited a newsletter on bread and sourdough, and was a frequent contributor and reviewer for Vegetarian Times magazine for about 5 years. In 2001 she became a “resident expert” and moderator of the Vegsource New Vegetarian discussion board.

Daelyn Fortney is a vegetarian food and lifestyle writer. She enjoys trying new vegetarian products and creating meatless meals. Daelyn currently resides in Northeast Ohio with her husband and three daughters.

16-year-old Nina Nelson loves ballet! A lifelong vegan, she is the daughter of VegSource.com owners Jeff & Sabrina Nelson.

Julieanna is a Plant-Based Registered Dietitian and ACE-Certified Personal Trainer who has owned To Your Health Fitness and Nutrition in Southern California for more than twelve years, practicing personal training and nutrition counseling on an in-home basis.

She counsels, lectures, and writes about the miracles of plant-based nutrition. Julieanna is the newest instructor for Dr. T. Colin Campbell's eCornell Plant-Based Nutrition Certification Program and is currently in production with "Going Veg with the Plant-Based Dietitian" (www.GoingVeg.net).

Julieanna received her B.A. from UCLA in 1998 and a M.S. in Nutrition at California State University at Northridge in nutrition in 2005.

She is also a consultant to the Ventura County Unified School District counseling special needs children. She practiced clinical nutrition at Century City Doctors Hospital seeing all types of patients.

Twelve days after Julieanna became a Registered Dietitian, she became a Mom and began the passionate journey towards becoming plant-based through personal research and investigation. She is on a mission to spread the message of the magnificence and life-changing effect of plant-based nutrition. She lives in Thousand Oaks, CA with her husband, 2 kidlets and 2 cocker spaniels.

Michael Greger, M.D., is a physician, author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues.

I've been in the medical library "business" for 38 years. Since I got my first library card & could walk to the library myself I've been hooked on the medical/health/self-improvement book shelves. I'm always skeptical - yet open-minded.

At 8 years old I was telling my parents that it was important for me to get to sleep by 8:00 pm, and they better start giving me a multi-vitamin because I probably wasn't getting everything I needed from what I was eating. Since I couldn't swallow a pill at that age, & there weren't chewables back then, I hid it in some cereal & bit right into it. Yuck. I also told them it was important for me to have chores, be grounded if I did something wrong, & have a curfew in high school. They refused to give in to me!

52 years later I'm still "test driving" everything new that comes along in the health & fitness field that seems sensible to me, all in the name of a HAPPY HEALTHY LONG LIFE. I'm like a kid in a candy store working and doing research in one of the best medical libraries around. We have access to over 30,000 electronic journals, and so much more!

I've learned a lot along the way that I freely share with anyone who cares to listen. This blog is my way to just keep track of all the great information that comes my way and to write about what the researchers are really reporting in medical journals, not the spin the public reads in the "press releases". But, most importantly, I get a chance to report on "my adventures in evidence-based living".

To see how my first year of "experimenting" has shaped up, click here:

http://www.happyhealthylonglife.com/happy_healthy_long_life/2009/01/blog-anniversary.html

Dr. Heidrich is a six-time Ironman Triathlon finisher, holder of more than 900 gold medals from every distance from 100 meter dashes to 5K road races to ultra marathons and triathlons. She has completed more than 60 marathons all over the world, including Boston, New York, Moscow, and has held 3 world fitness records in her age group at the famed Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas. She also was named one of the "Top Ten Fittest Women in North America" in 1999.

She is the author of Senior Fitness, A Race For Life, The CHEF Cook/Rawbook, several videos and co-host of a weekly talk show, Nutrition & You on KWAI, Honolulu, Hawaii.

She is a graduate of UCLA and holds a Master's degree in Psychology, and a doctorate in Health Education. She has also taught in this field at the University of Hawaii.

As of the year 2010, she has been vegan for 28 years and a daily runner for 42 years.

Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board–certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. His private practice is located in Flemington, New Jersey.

He is the author of Eat To Live: The Revolutionary Plan for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, which was published by Little, Brown & Company in 2003 and has gone through eleven printings in hardcover and six printings in paperback. Foreign editions of Eat To Live are available in the U.K., Turkey, and Israel. Dr. Fuhrman’s first book, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease, was published in 1995 by St. Martin’s Press. Dr. Fuhrman’s next book, Disease–Proof Your Child, was published by St. Martin’s Press in April 2005. His most recent book, published in 2008, Eat For Health (a two volume set) is acclaimed as a medical breakthrough for weight loss, disease reversal and prevention.

In addition, Dr. Fuhrman is widely published, from medical journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Orthopaedics and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, to consumer publications such as Mothering Magazine and Health Science.

Since 1999 the mission of Vegetarians in Paradise has been to offer our friends in the vegetarian community a nesting place to roost awhile and share information about a lifestyle that may keep us flying around a few years longer than our non-vegetarian friends.

At this nest we offer some great places to eat wholesome vegetarian food, to shop for the best organic fresh produce and prepared foods, and to discover tasty recipes, cooking tips, books to read, and healthy living information. In other words, this nest is a gathering place for us fine-feathered birds who enjoy being just what we are--vegetarians

John Davis was a pioneer of vegetarianism on the internet from the first days of the world wide web in 1994. He maintained the first websites for VSUK, VIVA and EVU as well being involved with many others in the mid-90s, and he built the first IVU website in November 1995.

In 2006, after many years of working for IVU, he was designated as IVU Manager. The last few years have seen some major reorganisations to enable IVU to maintain its leading role in world vegetarianism into the 21st century, including improvements in financial and business links. He is particularly proud to have had the opportunity to support the first vegetarian congresses ever to be held in Africa, thanks to funds raised by IVU.

Throughout this time he has also been researching the history of IVU, partly for presentations at the centenary congress in 2008, along with general vegetarian history, all supported by members of the ivu-history email group. The results of this now run to about 10,000 historical files on the IVU website.

Over the years with IVU John has attended congresses and other events in many countries, including Brazil, California, China, Germany, India, Italy, Indonesia, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland and Thailand. He lives in rural England.

For more than forty years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers and coauthor of the bestselling the book, The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health.

Chef AJ is a consulting Chef at Exsalus Health & Wellness Center. She was the Executive Vegan and Raw Pastry Chef at Sante in Los Angeles, Ca and will be soon making vegan and raw desserts for Juicy Ladies in Woodland Hills, CA. She prides herself on the fact that she never uses any processed ingredients (like flour, sugar, oil or salt) in any of her creations, using only fruits to sweeten.

AJ has followed a plant based diet for over 32 years and for the last 10 years has taught at several culinary schools throughout Los Angeles. She has prepared food for many celebrities and television shows and also volunteers as a culinary instructor for Black Women Wellness, an organization that serves the needs of economically challenged women in Los Angeles, many who are suffering from Diabetes. She was also the volunteer culinary instructor at the Braille Institute, teaching healthy cooking to the blind who lost their sight due to Type II diabetes.

AJ lives in Los Angeles with her handsome vegan husband, Charles, who is a writer/producer, and their 2 rescued mutts Ginger & Sparky who also do volunteer work at the Sherman Oaks Burn Center. Sparky has also appeared in several TV shows and films.

In her spare time AJ loves to deal Poker to senior citizens and design T-shirts, her favorite one proudly stating "My IQ is higher than my Cholesterol".

AJ was featured in the documentary "Point of View" as well as several television shows including "Dog Whisperer". She will soon be featured in "Obsessed" which will premiere on A & E in the fall.

Dr. Pam Popper is a naturopath, nutritionist and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. The company offers educational programs designed to assist individuals in changing their health outcomes through improved diet and lifestyle habits; to assist employers in reducing the costs of health insurance and medical care for employees; and to educate health care professionals about how to use diet and lifestyle for preventing, reversing, and stopping the progression of degenerative disease.

Dr. Popper is the author of several books and cookbooks, as well as several programs offered for continuing education credits for medical professionals. She is the Founder of The Wellness Forum Foundation, which offers programming in schools designed to improve children's health and well-being through better nutrition.

Dr. Popper serves on the Physician's Steering Committee for the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington D.C. Additionally, she is part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's teaching team at eCornell, teaching part of a certification course on plant-based nutrition. She is currently featured in two widely distributed documentaries, Processed People and Making a Killing and will be appearing in a full-length feature film on diet and health next year.

Dr. Popper is also a lobbyist and public policy expert, and continually works toward changing laws that interfere with patients' right to choose their health provider and method of care. She has testified in front of legislative committees on numerous occasions.

Dr. Pam Popper is a straight-talking professional who is not afraid to criticize national health organizations, government agencies, medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural organizations and manufacturing companies, many of whom have agendas and priorities that interfere with distributing truthful information and promoting public health.

Everyone who is interested in health should hear her speak. For some, their lives may depend on what she has to say!

Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker, educator, author, and musician.

His music, writings, and presentations focus on creativity, intuition, and compassion.

Dr. Tuttle presents about 150 events yearly at conferences, retreats, and progressive churches and centers throughout North America. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. in education from U.C., Berkeley, he has worked extensively in intuition development, spiritual healing, meditation, music, creativity, vegan living, and cultural evolution.

In churches, he typically presents the morning special music, meditation, and message and later gives an educational seminar on developing intuition, as well as a concert of original music, "Piano Passion." These are intended to generate energy for personal and planetary awakening.