Lori Nichols Davies is a Canadian pioneer in research and education for Applied Nutrition. She began her professional career in the health food business in Toronto in 1972. Hired as a Food and Health Consultant she soon became a General Manager of four stores, hiring staff and training them. Through her employer, Lionel Pasen, owner of Canada's oldest herbal store. she became active in the Canadian Consumers Health Organization (He is Chariman of this sensible activist group.) In the next six years she learned journeyman style from lectures given by many visiting research scientists, such as Adele Davis, Al Smith of Trophic Foods, Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, founder of iridology (a diagnostic tool that is 90% correct used at the Mayo clinic), also author Dr. Paavo Airola, ND of California; Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, Father of Orthomolecular Therapy from Saskatoon; and Dr. Ann Wigmore, Ph.D. from Boston who started the Hippocrates Institute in 1957. (Now eight locations in North America.)
In 1977, Lori became one of Canada's first certified 'Touch for Health' kinesiologists. She has updated her training with Rica Gerhardt in Attitudinal Kinesiology in 1999, and in 2009 with Body Talk (R) International. She makes monthly recipe contributions to this international community, as well as articles in various magazines and newspapers, such as Ottawa Natural Magazine, Tonic Magazine in Toronto, EMC in the Ottawa River Valley, and the Carleton Place Canadian.
As founder and CEO of the Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada, Lori is an active supporter in the Canadian Organic Growers and Savour Ontario prograrms to promote local organic farming and home gardens. Having expanded her programs in 2009 at four locations in Ottawa, plus a training center in Richmond Hill for the GTA, her four graduate holistic teaching chefs are active in Ottawa. Please contact them under Campus Info. The Toronto group of ten will graduate July 2010. New classes will form in ten more communities from Bowmanville, Barrie, Brampton. as well as Markham, New Market and downtown Toronto.
Recognized by the Canadian Naturopathic Community as a friend, and as an honorary member of the Canadian Association of Natural Nutritional Practitioners, and as a lifetime member of the Princeton University Global Network and the Who's Who of Canada, she continues to be an ardent spokesperson at conferences, on radio and TV. As author of a fourteen-volume cookbook series, The Enlightened Home Chef, she developed a 220 hour curriculum with her esteemed Advisory Board members. She has risen to a unique position based on her inner strength established by both prayer and work. Her certifications from the Strathmore Institute in Toronto as a Natural Food and Health Consultant in 1998, and from the International Edison Institute as a Nutrition Consultant in 2001, capitalize her passion and talents. Since 2005, her Academy is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. As a writer and published author, she is joined the Ottawa Independent Author's Association in 2008. In 2009. She has qualified to be an honored member of Stanford's Who's Who of Canada 2009 for outstanding executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
Based on a life-time of personal and professional experiences as a food and health consultant, Lori has attracted a group of clinical scientists and internatioanal food professionals to join her in a clearly defined goal to educate and empower home chefs, professional chefs and teachers. Her chef's program is advanced, unique and motivational in its use of life-style kinesiology. Emphasis on adequate protein, balanced fats and carbohydrate, mineral-rich foods and balancing omega 3 fats with omega 6 oils truly helps to build immunity – one meal at a time.
Headquartered in Ottawa, Lori has established a second location in 2009 for the Academy at 34 May Avenue in Richmond Hill just west of Yonge Street north of Hwy 407. Holistic teaching chefs will graduate August 2010, and establish classes where they live - or travel. Teaching Chefs are working adults with a nutrition background. Teachers may enter at any time of the year. Students commit to a rigorous readng program of 15 books as well as home practice. Teachers meet one day a week for 15 months to establish beneficial lifestyle habits from deep breathing from the belly to positive proactive marketing.
In Ottawa, teacher and home chef training programs begin in February 2010 on Monday, February 01, and Wednesday February 03. A new kitchen is open at the Ottawa Canadian School of Natural Nutriton at 1510 Merivale Road. Holistic Chef Ken Johnston N.H.C. will be teaching there, as well as at Brookfield High School. Chef Hollie Palmer teaches at the Catholic School Board at St. Nicolas Adult HS near Westgate, off Carling. Holistic Chef Kathie Smart R.N.C. is teaching Wednesday nights at Rideau HS in Alta Vista area and at the Bob McQuarrie Recreational Complex in Orleans.
The 220 hour program is audited and accredited by her independent Advisory Board. Classes provide community credits reguired for nutrition students to graduate from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.
Both lay people and professionals benefit from the sound nutritional principles taught at her school. A lifetime of studies from leaders in nutrition brings competence to her applied nutrition courses emphasizing absorption of nutrients and builidng immunity by recognizing food allergies and levels of toxins in the body. Detoxifation strategies of a holistic nature are delivered in classes to support physical, emotional, mental and spiritual clarity.
The Distance Education program began in February 2009 with television chef Kathy Smart of www.livethesmartway.com This program is ideal for those who have studied nutrition, have a flair for cooking, and want to teach what they know in kitchens instead of offices in an organized fashion showing the science of why things are done the way they are done. Since May 2009, DVD's are being produced, and will be completed by Dec 2010 to complete the e-commercie educational service.
The Academy's professional advisory board is dedicated to knowing everything possible about healing with food and nutriceuticals. Using their research she searches for investors to help her establish a holistic restaurant to teach vocational organic chefs to be healing holistic chefs.
The 55-week program certifies daycare owners and chefs, registered nutrition consultants, catereres, professional chefs, natural health practitioners, fitness instructors, legal secretaries, widows and grandmothers. Add a Certified Holistic Chef designation to your credentials.
Lori has trained over 2,000 home chefs since 1998 in Ottawa.
Making it her responsibility to understand how nutrients factor into healthy longevity on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, Chef Lori N-D has produced fourteen cookbooks - The Enlightened Home Chef series. The first, book, Cooking with Herbs and Spices, (5000 years of wisdom confirmed by modern science) can be ordered for $49.95 at Baico Publishing Consutlants in Ottawa at baico@bellnet.ca.
She adds herbal expertise based on studies with James Duke, Michael Castleman, and Lynn Armour MH. Order organic herbs through herbs@earthmedicine.com Every class has a different herbal tea to alkalinize the blood. Her studies with Essential Healing Oils from Penelope Ody, Gary Young, and others, adds a broad-based holistic knowledge for chefs. Lori is often invited to speak at public forums. Audience members feel her passion and dedication as a 'green leader'. The Holistic Cooking Academy is creating an important legacy for greater health and deeper happiness for countless numbers of global citizens who want proactive 'wellness' rather reactive treatment of disease.
Susan Annable, RHN, HTC
Susan is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and the owner of Soup to Nuts Nutritional Consulting. She is a graduate of the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition and the Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada and is a member in good standing of the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants.
In 2004, Susan and her daughter shared the task of sleeping in an oxygen tent for five days with her grandson, as he had developed pneumonia that stemmed from chronic asthma due to food allergies. Susan decided to take his health in her own hands, determined to heal him without the use of long-term medication - so off to study natural nutrition she went! Since graduating, Susan has opened her own practice and is finally doing what she loves to do. She has always been interested in nutrition and would spend restless nights reading medical and recipe books. She has put the two together in her practice, using nutrition to heal the body naturally.
Susan has two grown children, and two young grandchildren. She has been able to teach her daughter how to deal with asthma and gluten-intolerance in her young children. Susan herself had suffered many years with food allergies and gluten-intolerance and has effectively used food and supplementation to aid her in maintaining homeostasis. Her determination has paid off!
Susan is continually discovering new ways to heal the body and is currently studying Biotherapeutic Drainage as a way to deal with chronic and degenerative conditions.
In her practice, clients receive personalized care, as every 'body' is unique and every 'person' responds differently to foods and supplements. Susan loves her work and is sincerely committed to helping her clients reach their goals.
Susan Annable can be reached at 613-774-2251. Visit Susan at her website www.Souptonuts.com
Hollie Palmer, Holistic Teaching Chef
Cooking has been a passion of mine since I was very young. I would sit in my Great Grandparents kitchen and watch them bake. The smell of "homemade" always met you at the door of their home. As my sister and I grew, our grandmother passed along the love of spending time in the kitchen and sharing great food with others to us and we would help her entertain her friends at tea parties and luncheons often.
My passion for living a healthful life came a little later in life. After being suspected of having a chronic illness I sought the help of an environmental doctor who lead me through several food challenges. When I saw the effects of certain foods on my body I became "hungry" for as much information as I could get my hands on, and couldn't wait to start sharing with others what I had learned. I believe that people deserve to know that what they are putting into their bodies is slowly killing them.
I am committed to spreading the knowledge I gain to others. I teach with the Catholic School Board at two locations in Ottawa, while I raise my three children in the sound nutritional principles which I learned at the Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada.
Hollie Palmer can be reached at her home in Clayton, ON at 613-256-9865.
Ken Johnston, Holistic Teaching Chef
Hi there. I've been a cook for a daycare for the last 9 years and I love my kids and they love my food and real soup bone broths. I've had an interest in cooking since age 8 when I baked my first cake.
Ten years ago at age 36 I was diagnosed with diabetes and was told to follow the Canada Food Guide. For four years I controlled my diabetes with diet only. However, I eventually found that the symptoms of diabetes came back - my weight went up and blood sugar levels started to rise. I tried the drug therapies my physician suggested, but none really worked. Only with exercise could I lose weight, but my blood sugar would not return to the levels I had been able to achieve during the first four years.
One day while getting my prescription filled, I noticed a book on diabetes called Prevent, Treat and Reverse Diabetes by C. Leigh Broadhurst PhD." So I purchased it. In the introduction to this book was the following statement. "(The diabetic epidemic) is already far beyond the capability of any medical establishment or government health organization to control. Only YOU can make a difference." This struck home with me.
After following some of the suggestions in this book, my health improved. I read more books, such as Hard to Swallow, a book on food additives published by Alive Books, and started taking nutrition courses at the International Academy of Health Education. I am thirsty for more wisdom, and keep applying new information that makes sense to me. Thus, my lifestyle and my health are always improving. I have rid myself of eczema, arthritic discomforts, and terrible digestion disorders. Now my blood sugar is lower than it had been in nine years and my energy is high. I am in control of my life. I have successfully completed the Holistic Teaching Chefs training with the Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada with a 97% grade average. It would my privilege to meet you with you to share my skills as a chef as well as a consultant. In 2009, I studied iridology to help me detect the truth in the body. The Mayo Clinic uses this same method of diagnosis with 90% accuracy. You may contact Ken at 613-680-2037
Kathy Smart, FIS, PTS, RNC, RSNA, HTC
Kathy Smart is a nutritional consultant who works for the City of Ottawa through the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex in Orleans, ON, Canada.
As a nutritional consultant, motivational speaker, TV cooking personality, cookbook author, musician, holistic teaching chef and personal fitness trainer, Kathy's goal is to educate, motivate and inspire others to form life-changing habits using nutrition and exercise as her tools.
Kathy is a registered nutritional counsellor with the Canadian Examining Board of Health Care Practitioners, a Holistic Teaching Chef trained at the Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada. She teaches with the Ottawa Carleton School Board at Rideau High School in the Alta Vista area on Wednesday nights as well as workshops at the Bob MacQuarrie Complex. She is a Registered Personal Fitness Trainer with the Canadian Association of Fitness Professionals.
When not teaching fitness classes, directing osteoporosis programs, personal training, writing health articles, nutritional counselling or fitness supervising at the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex, Kathy can be found giving nutritional workshops, creating new healthy recipes and taking various upgrading courses in both nutrition and fitness. Please visit her website www.livethesmartway.com for details to attend her lectures and cooking classes at two locations.
