|
Welcome to the Total Health and Wellness Network |
Featured Contributors
Lorna Vanderhaeghe, MS
Many readers may already know me from my many years writing and editing for Alive magazine or as Editor-in-chief for Healthy Living Guide, Canada's number one health newsstand magazine. I have been researching and writing on the subject of nutritional medicine for almost two decades working along side some of the most brilliant researchers and doctors. For over 5 years I worked at the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation.
Like many who have developed a passion for the nutritional medicine field I became a convert after my daughter recovered from an illness that doctors could not treat with conventional methods. The greatest joy I receive from writing, lecturing and publishing comes from you. Your letters and health recovery stories are powerful motivators to get the message out. Every other letter I receive from readers starts with the words, "if I had only known about this information earlier I would not have had to endure years of sickness."
Read Lorna's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
Listen to Lorna's radio show Ask Lorna on TotalHealthRadio.com |
|
Dr. Hyla Cass
Natural Solutions for Mind, Body and Spirit
Dr Hyla Cass is one of the country's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. A former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, she has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Cass's books include:
- Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition
- 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health: A Woman's Take-Charge Program to Correct Imbalances, Reclaim Energy, and Restore Well-Being
- Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind/Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time
- St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster
- Kava; Nature’s Answer to Stress Anxiety and Insomnia
- A User’s Guides to Ginkgo
- A User's Guide to Vitamin C
- A User's Guide to Herbal Remedies
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Health Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total Health Magazine, and an advisory board member of California Citizens for Health. She consults to the supplement industry regarding formulations, and has developed several under her own label.
Incorporating nutritional principles and natural health techniques in her practice for more than 20 years, she is one of the nation's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. She regularly appears on radio, television, including The View, The CBS Evening News and MSNBC, where she successfully debated a “Quackbuster” challenger. She is quoted as an expert in the field in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine. Her speaking topics to both lay and professional medical audiences include complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women's health (including bio-identical hormone therapy), stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.
Read Dr. Cass's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Dr. Parris Kidd
Mind and Body Medicine
Dr. Parris Kidd was born in Jamaica and earned his B.Sc. degree with First
Class Honors at the University of the West Indies. Subsequently he emigrated
to the USA and earned his PhD in cell biology at the University of California
at Berkeley. In 1983, after serving seven years as a research investigator in
cardiology at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center
(UCSF) and as a lecturer at Berkeley and at the University of the Pacific, Dr.
Kidd entered the new field of nutritional biomedicine. His first project was to
write Antioxidant Adaptation—Its Role in Free Radical Pathology. Published
in 1985, this 500-page text established nutritional antioxidants as the body’s
premier anti-toxic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-aging substances. It also
established Dr. Kidd as a leading scientist in alternative medicine.
In 1990 Dr. Kidd published Living with the AIDS Virus—A Strategy for
Long-Term Survival. This book discussed the then-limited pharmaceutical
options for managing HIV-1, as well as the evidence that dietary and lifestyle
modification, supplementation with nutrients and herbs, and physical exercise
could help extend lifespan for the person living with AIDS. Dr. Kidd
presented this new integrative approach to disease management
internationally, at community meetings, universities and People with HIV
support groups.
Dr. Kidd subsequently broadened his focus to brain nutrition. In 1994 he
helped introduce the nutrient PhosphatidylSerine (PS) to North America. In
1997 he helped introduce GlyceroPhosphoCholine (GPC). In 2003 he helped
introduce krill omega-3 phospholipids. He has lectured and written
extensively on the uses of these phospholipid nutrients to support attention,
memory and mood, and to salvage declining brain function. Recently he has
published books on PS and GPC.
Dr. Parris Kidd is now internationally recognized as a nutrition educator and
dietary supplement product developer. He remains committed to providing
quality healthcare information rooted in good science. He has published
numerous peer reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, monographs, and
magazine articles on diverse topics in healthcare. He is a Contributing Editor
to the journal Alternative Medicine Review, Science Adviser for Total Health
magazine, and designer of dozens of dietary supplement formulations. Dr.
Kidd’s website at www.dockidd.com carries a number of his educational
contributions as free downloads. Dr. Kidd continues to be a strong advocate of
integrative strategies for health maintenance and disease management.
Read Dr. Kidd's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Dr. Stephen Sinatra
A Cardiologist's Guide to Total Health
Dr. Sinatra completed his conventional medical school training at Albany Medical College in New York. After completing five years of training in internal medicine, psychiatry, and cardiology, he joined a bustling cardiology practice. In medical school, he had learned to be an "iron man," devoid of feelings and able to function on little sleep. Later, he understood the costs of such a disconnect.
While working long hours in cardiac care, he witnessed the destructive patterns of many of his heart patients. Generally, they were driven, competitive, type A personalities prone to developing heart disease.
While looking for remedies, he quickly realized that conventional medicine didn't offer the solution. By the time many of his patients came to him, their conditions were too far gone. Many were searching for alternatives to surgery; most wanted to make decisions about their treatment.
Dr. Sinatra began to shift his focus away from disease treatment and toward disease prevention. He searched for alternative approaches to healing, becoming certified in bioenergetic analysis. With bioenergetics, he began studying mind-body interactions. Looking beyond the disease, he focused on the physical, metabolic, emotional, and mental aspects of the body.
Read Dr. Sinatra's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Kat James
Beauty and Lifestyle Expert
You may have seen Kat's story of dramatic transformation in your favorite beauty or health magazine, in Ladies’ Home Journal, on PBS, on the back of a cereal box, or in her bestselling book, The Truth About Beauty. Kat transformed her body and skin beyond recognition after a 12-year eating disorder and liver disorder nearly took her life. She has since, through her book, national health column, PBS special, and worldwide talks and Total Transformation® Programs, helped millions to mastermind their own successful “extreme makeovers” using science and strategy, rather than suffering or dangerous and short-lived extreme measures.
Read Kat's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Colleen Paige
Animal Behaviorist & Pet Lifestyle Expert
Colleen Paige is considered one of America's leading experts in animal behavior and living harmoniously with pets.
As an Animal Behaviorist, the Editor-in-Chief of Pet Home Magazine, author of "Dog Drool" (Sit Stay, 2002) and "The Good Behavior Book for Dogs" (Quarry Books, 2007), Colleen offers a plethora of expertise in areas such as dog and cat behavior training, pet savvy interior and garden design and fine art pet photography. Colleen's clientele ranges from celebrities, to the every day pet lover—offering advice to clients as far away as England, Belgium and Japan.
Colleen's wealth of knowledge has been shared with TV viewers in shows like Evening Magazine and ABC News in Los Angeles and in scores of popular national publications, such as The Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, The New York Times, Total Health Magazine, People, The Denver Post and OK! Celebrity Magazine.
To give back the love that Colleen has received from her pets over the years, she founded National Dog Day and National Cat Day (among others) to help celebrate the unconditional love that pets bestow and also to help save them through the promotion of adoption. She is currently in pre-production of her new TV series Canine Design, which will feature pet friendly home and office environments, as well as creating a series of photographic coffee table books "Beneath the Fur—The Real Dogs of…" which will feature hometown dogs in their local environments. The first in the series will be documented in Carmel, California and is due out in April, 2009.
Read Colleen's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Sherrill Sellman
What Women Must Know
Her career has taken her around the world with a strong message for women. “Women must realize that their natural functions are being medicalized and pathologized for profit."
"Steroid hormones in the form of the pill and hormone replacement therapy are dangerous drugs with many risks and side-effects. It is time for women to take responsibility for their health, because their health is big business and no one else will do it for them!" Her books and lectures, have brought shocking facts to women. Globally, women are responding with applause and greatful appreciation.
Through her own personal journey of reclaiming her health, she has been inspired to share with other women ways they too can reclaim their own health by gaining a deeper appreciation of their bodies natural cycles and their innate wisdom.
After twelve years of in-depth research, Sherrill is bravely bringing into the open facts and figures that have been ignored, suppressed and buried for years.
Over the past ten years, Sherrill has been lecturing worldwide about the seriousness of using synthetic hormones as well as the many myths and abuses regarding women's hormonal health. Her many prophetic warnings have now been proven true.
Read Sherrill's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
Dr. Jonny Bowden
I have a PhD in nutrition and a Masters degree in psychology. I am also a former personal trainer with six national certifications.
I’ve appeared on CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS and I am the author of 5 books.
I also write health articles for AOL and “Men’s Health” and speak at various self-improvement seminars across the United States, including those put on by such luminaries as T. Harv Eker, Mark Victor Hansen and Christine Comaford-Lynch.
His books include:
“Living the Low-Carb Life: Choosing the Diet that's Right for You from Atkins to Zone” (100,000 in print and winner of the “Consumer Nutrition Book of the Year” award)
“The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The surprising unbiased truth about what you should eat and why”
“The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The surprising unbiased truth about what treatments work and why”
and his latest, “The Healthiest Meals on Earth”, which will be published by Fair Winds press in July 2008.
|
|
My mission and my passion is to provide cutting edge information about diet, nutrition and health; to inspire, motivate, teach and entertain; to help you cut through all the misconceptions about health and diet; and to help you live a truly powerful, magnificent and healthy life with energy and passion!
Read Dr. Bowden's articles on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
Listen to Dr. Bowden's radio show on TotalHealthRadio.com
|
Jeff Ham
Illustrator Extraordinaire
Raw, bright, explosive colors are used to evoke emotion and draw attention to the subjects Jeff paints. “In my paintings everything becomes an iconic image, no setting or backgrounds. I paint what I love, people, animals and landscapes. I do my best to translate emotion and feelings into color as well as communicate my individual interpretation of each subject. The work is done quickly and in the moment to capture spontaneity and avoid over thinking and over working. As an artist I am at a genesis of learning to express myself in an honest and straightforward manner.”
At 18 Ham took his first sojourn through the Southwest and Southern Utah. Zion, Bryce and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon proved to be such an influence on Jeff’s art that he works from a studio in St. George, Utah 7 to 8 months out of the year, while also keeping a studio on the shore of Lake Michigan in Michigan City, Indiana.
Jeff’s work is found in magazines, galleries, national and international private collections and universities across the country.
Jeff's art is represented by
|
|
You can view Jeff's contributions to totalhealth magazine on the AmericanWellnessNetwork.com
|
|
|
