Nancy Lee Bentley, Wholistic Health Expert
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MI, USNancy Lee Bentley is a veteran food and health pro, interviewed on all the major networks, who serves up her wit, wisdom, and experience as ingredients to help inspire audiences to "get real" with what we're eating and "what's eating us."
Author of Truly Cultured and Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program, Nancy Lee's own authenic, "not always savory" journey through the trenches in commercial and sustainable food, agriculture, nutrition, foodservice, foodsystems, health and wellness, business, media, government and politics, has yielded an amazingly fresh, practical "big picture" window viewpoint on food and health today that this Grandmother of the Organic Movement liberally shares as her "Recipe for Succeeding Inside Out."
This New Thought Leader's inspiring message is about our lifestyle choices and what really feeds and nourishes us. And, as her readers, listeners and clients testify, can help us understand how to stop "Spinning our Wheels," recycling old eating, health, weight, relationship and other issues, and start finding our own Road Map to Health.
Accomplishments:
*Celebrity Expert who's been featured on all the major networks from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN to FOX, as conference keynote speaker, workshop leader and guest expert on numerous radio and internet radio shows, not only because she's a lively and just-provocative enough guest who gets and keeps an audience's attention, but because she's also quick, adaptive and fully conversant on a full scope of healthy food, ag, nutrition, health and wellness-related topics.
*Co-Author, Dr. Mercola's TOTAL HEALTH Program with New York Times Best Selling, Dr. Joseph Mercola; Author and Publisher of her own "Opus" Truly Cultured: Rejuvenating Taste, Health and Community; whose articles and blogs have appeared in many trade and consumer publications, community portals and websites, including YourTango.com, Yahoo!Shine, Bliss.com, and The Huffington Post.
*Celebrity food support, including developing gluten-free recipes for celebrities like Cher, baking Prince's purple-flowered birthday cake, catering for Aveda founder, Horst Rechelbacher, and introducing organic specialty produce to world-class chef, Charlie Trotter.
*Founding organizer/member, The Organic Trade Association; *First consultant / development team for QAI and OCIA Organic Certification Programs; *Founding member, Organic Farming Research Association.
*Organizer/consultant for sustainable community initiatives: from-farm-to-chef projects, food co-ops/buying clubs, local/regional food networks, value-added products, and holistic health centers to healthy foodservice conversions, catering, conference/retreat accommodation and consultations.
*With kudos from, honored by Earl Nightingale, The USDA, 2000 Notable American Women, and as one of the first 15 national Project Messengers; quoted as an Expert on YourTango.com, SelfGrowth.com and The Huffington Post.
Nancy Lee Bentley is a veteran food and health pro, interviewed on all the major networks, who serves up her wit, wisdom, and experience as ingredients to help inspire audiences to "get real" with what we're eating and "what's eating us."
Author of Truly Cultured and Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program, Nancy Lee's own authenic, "not always savory" journey through the trenches in commercial and sustainable food, agriculture, nutrition, foodservice, foodsystems, health and wellness, business, media, government and politics, has yielded an amazingly fresh, practical "big picture" window viewpoint on food and health today that this Grandmother of the Organic Movement liberally shares as her "Recipe for Succeeding Inside Out."
This New Thought Leader's inspiring message is about our lifestyle choices and what really feeds and nourishes us. And, as her readers, listeners and clients testify, can help us understand how to stop "Spinning our Wheels," recycling old eating, health, weight, relationship and other issues, and start finding our own Road Map to Health.
Accomplishments:
*Celebrity Expert who's been featured on all the major networks from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN to FOX, as conference keynote speaker, workshop leader and guest expert on numerous radio and internet radio shows, not only because she's a lively and just-provocative enough guest who gets and keeps an audience's attention, but because she's also quick, adaptive and fully conversant on a full scope of healthy food, ag, nutrition, health and wellness-related topics.
*Co-Author, Dr. Mercola's TOTAL HEALTH Program with New York Times Best Selling, Dr. Joseph Mercola; Author and Publisher of her own "Opus" Truly Cultured: Rejuvenating Taste, Health and Community; whose articles and blogs have appeared in many trade and consumer publications, community portals and websites, including YourTango.com, Yahoo!Shine, Bliss.com, and The Huffington Post.
*Celebrity food support, including developing gluten-free recipes for celebrities like Cher, baking Prince's purple-flowered birthday cake, catering for Aveda founder, Horst Rechelbacher, and introducing organic specialty produce to world-class chef, Charlie Trotter.
*Founding organizer/member, The Organic Trade Association; *First consultant / development team for QAI and OCIA Organic Certification Programs; *Founding member, Organic Farming Research Association.
*Organizer/consultant for sustainable community initiatives: from-farm-to-chef projects, food co-ops/buying clubs, local/regional food networks, value-added products, and holistic health centers to healthy foodservice conversions, catering, conference/retreat accommodation and consultations.
*With kudos from, honored by Earl Nightingale, The USDA, 2000 Notable American Women, and as one of the first 15 national Project Messengers; quoted as an Expert on YourTango.com, SelfGrowth.com and The Huffington Post.
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