2007 Expo Speaking Schedule

Friday, June 1 -- 6 to 10 pm

Dinner & Jeffrey Novick, MS, RD, LV/N -- Keynote -- "Health Food vs Healthy Food: How Can You Tell The Difference (or, Defending Yourself Against The Weapons Of Mass Deception). "
DESCRIPTION: In the last 30 years we have seem more "health foods" and "products" come out promoting their health benefits than ever before. And huge health food stores selling these products everywhere. Yet during the same period, Americans have become the fattest nation on earth. Are health foods really healthy? In this eye-opening and entertaining talk, you will learn how this happened and find out the truth behing the marketing of "health" foods. And you will learn some very simple and easy quidelines to help you quickly know the difference between and find the real health foods.

Saturday, June 2 -- 8:30 - 5:00

8:30 - 9:45 -- Pam Popper, PhD, ND -- "Optimizing Health for Women"
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Popper loves addressing women's health issues since women not only are responsible for their own health, but often control diet and health issues fro children and families. Her talk will include information about weight loss, osteoporosis, breast health, hormone replacement and how to reverse aging.

10:00 -- 11:15 -- Bryant Terry -- “Creating an Urban Organic Kitchen ”
DESCRIPTION: For the harried and busy urban dweller, embracing a lifestyle that favors fresh over processed, home-cooked over fast food takeout, or local- and seasonal - versus imported, is more often an aspiration than an actual adoption. The good news is that converting to this affordable, healthier and planet-friendly lifestyle is much easier to achieve than is commonly perceived. Bryant Terry will have an interactive discussion about ways you can easily create a green kitchen and share ideas about how our food choices affect food production, food security, and the economic well-being of small farmers.

11:15 - 1  -- lunch break

1 - 2 pm -- Jeffrey Masson, PhD --"The Face on your Plate, or The Case for Veganism"
DESCRIPTION: After 2000 years of writing about vegetarianism, is there anything new to say. Jeff Masson thinks so. Too many people say they are willing to eat meat from an animal who has led a happy life (and, they add, a gentle death). Masson looks in some depth at what it means for an animal to be happy.

2:15 - 3:30 -- John Robbins -- "The Agony and Ecstacy of Our Times "
DESCRIPTION: We are living in times of unprecedented loss and destruction, in the face of which it can seem that nothing we do is nearly enough.  Is it possible to live with this pain so that it becomes a force?  So that we become more alive than afraid?  Is it possible for our grief to become a source of passion, power and creativity?  For our despair to awaken new life in us, and for our love and wisdom to become the dominant energy of our lives?  This workshop is about facing the pain of our times, and responding with vitality, compassion, and, yes, even joy.

3:45 - 5:00 -- Joel Fuhrman, MD -- "Good Cop, Bad Cop, The Value of High Fat Foods"
DESCRIPTION: The importance of eating nuts and seeds for health, rather than oils and why low fat eating is not ideal, and more about essential fatty acids.

Sunday, June 3 -- 8:00 - 5:00

8:00 - 9:15 -- Cooking demos w/Chef Tanya, raw chef Jennifer Cornbleet, Ann Esselstyn, Sabrina Nelson

9:30 - 10:30 -- Rev. Heng Sure, PhD -- "Practical Meditation: A History, and How to..."
DESCRIPTION: A survey and history of meditation practices, East and West. including Christian meditation, such as the Jesus Prayer, Jewish Kabbalah forms of meditation, medical studies of meditation, and practical instructions from a variety of traditions, featuring the Buddhist methods of "stopping and contemplating," which are the two branches of Chan/Zen meditation. Also includes meditating with vizualizations.

10:45 - 12:00 -- Caldwell Esselstyn, MD -- "No More Heart Attacks -- Ever"
DESCRIPTION: Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States for men and women. But, as Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former internationally known surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, explains, it can be prevented, reversed, and even abolished. Dr. Esselstyn argues that conventional cardiology has failed patients by developing treatments that focus only on the symptoms of heart disease, rather than the cause.

12:00 - 1:15 -- Lunch

1:15 - 2:30 -- Milton Mills, MD -- "Are Humans Designed to Eat Meat?"
DESCRIPTION: A comparative anatomy lesson on natural carnivores versus natural herbivores and omnivores. What diet are humans actually built to thrive on?

2:45 - 4:00 -- Joel Fuhrman, MD -- "Cooking Up Great Health with Dr. Fuhrman"
DESCRIPTION: Learn how to cook, the Eat To Live way, making high nutrient eating taste great, with green smoothies, sorbets, high cruciferous soups and other super foods that super-charge your health.

4:15 - end -- panel – with all speakers and audience Q&A.
DESCRIPTION: Now it's your turn to get perspectives from any and all of the speakers on issues of specific interest to you.

There will be meditation sessions each morning before the start of the day's speaking events.

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