The Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA) is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Conference held in Vancouver, WA, March 16-18, 2012 at the Vancouver Hilton.
The conference will be open to Nutritional Therapy Practitioners, students of NTA and others with an interest in nutrition and alternative healthcare.
The theme for this years conference: Sweet Addiction: Sugar and America's Health Crisis
Speakers will include:
Russ Bianchi - Russ is a major contributor to several books on the subject of sweeteners, their metabolic and social effects in the western food and beverage chain.
Jill Escher - Author of "Farewell Club Perma-Chub", a sugar addict's guide to easy weight loss. Jill is also founder of EndSugarAddiction.com.
Ann Louis Gittleman, PhD - Ann is a leading expert on environmental toxins and their effect on health, including blood sugar regulation. She is also the author of "Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet" and "How to Stay Young and Healthy in a Toxic World."
Larry McCleary, MD - Retired Acting Chief of Neurosurgery at Denver Children's Hospital. His recent book entitled "Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly" explores the relationship between sugar and diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia and other brain-related illnesses.
Michele Simon, JD, MPH - Author of "Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back." Michele is a public health lawyer who specializes in legal strategies to counter corporate tactics that harm the public's health.
Jacob Teitelbaum, MD - Author of "From Fatigued to Fantastic!", "Beat Sugar Addiction NOW!", and the cookbook, "Beat Sugar Addition NOW! Cookbook".
Alex Vasquez, BS,DC,ND,DO - Dr. Vasquez is the author of numerous articles and textbooks, he is an expert in the field of Integrative Functional Medicine with a focus on Rheumatology and Autoimmune.
T.S. Wiley - Author of "Lights Out...Sleep, Sugar and Survival".
Jay Wortman, MD - Dr. Wortman recently completed a two-year research interchange at the University of British Columbia where he studied the role of traditional diet in the prevention and treatment of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in First Nations.
For additional information about the Conference please visit: Nutitional Therapy Conference
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