- Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig (born Genevieve Guidroz in 1932 in Berwick, Louisiana) is an American weight loss guru who founded Jenny Craig, Inc. Raised in New Orleans, Genevieve Guidroz married Australian Sidney H. Craig. Although neither had formal training in nutrition or exercise, Mrs Craig developed a weight loss regimen that led to creating a weight-loss company in the mid-1980s with her husband. - Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is a Democratic Senator from Iowa, serving in his fourth senate term. A Democrat, he is currently Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. - Gary Null
Gary Michael Null (born 1945) is a talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine, and nutrition in the United States. He is also a social critic of psychiatry and conventional medicine. He is the owner of the supplement and media company Gary Null & Associates Inc. He was raised in West Virginia with his brother, Steve. He has one daughter, Shelly Null. - Gillian McKeith
Gillian McKeith (born 1959) is a Scottish nutritionist, television presenter, and writer. She fronts Channel 4's "You Are What You Eat" and Granada Television's "Dr Gillian McKeith's Feel Fab Forever" in the UK. She writes a weekly column for "Reveal" magazine and is the author of a number of books about nutrition, including "You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life" (2004). - Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman is an American family medicine physician and author. He maintains a medical practice in Flemington, New Jersey, and specializes in treating some major illnesses through nutrition and changes in diet. - Barry Sears
Barry Sears is a biochemist and nutrition scientist. He is most popular for creating and promoting the Zone diet, a diet aimed at achieving stable blood sugar levels and hormonal balance. The diet, Sears has stated in several of his books, was born of his desire to avoid dying of a heart attack, a fate that all other men in his family had been victims of. In more recent years, … - Jack Lalanne
Jack LaLanne is an American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, lecturer, and motivational speaker. LaLanne has been referred to as "the godfather of fitness." LaLanne gained worldwide renown for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as his prodigious feats of strength. He has won numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger Award from the Association of Distinguished Americans, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. - Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel MBE is the author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies, children and families. Her aim is to create healthy food for babies and children. Annabel's first child died of a rare viral disease aged just three months. Although the illness was not diet related, Annabel was determined to give her second child the best possible start in life and she spent two years researching child nutrition and development, … - Oz Garcia
Oz Garcia is a nutritional counselor and life extension specialist, businessman, and author. Garcia is CEO of the health and well-being consulting firm Personal Best Inc. which specializes in progressive nutrition and anti-aging treatments. Oz is also the founder of The Longevity Lounge, a clinical anti-aging destination. He is also the author of "The Balance" and "The Healthy HighTech Body", … - Jennie Brand-Miller
Professor Jennie Brand-Miller PhD, FAIFST, (born 1952) holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the School of Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. She is best known for her research and publications on the glycemic index, and its role in human health. Her research interests focus on all aspects of carbohydrates—diet and diabetes, the glycemic index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance and oligosaccharides in infant nutrition. - Abram Hoffer
Abram Hoffer (b. 1917) is a Canadian psychiatrist known for his work in the development of biochemically based therapies based on the use of nutrition and vitamins in the treatment of schizophrenia - known as orthomolecular psychiatry. This general approach, known as orthomolecular medicine, includes the use of megavitamins. - Adelle Davis
Daisie Adelle Davis (1904-1974), popularly known as Adelle Davis, was an American pioneer in the fledgling field of nutrition during the mid-20th century. She was an outspoken advocate of the superior value of whole unprocessed foods, the dangers of food additives, and the dominant role that all nutrients play in maintaining health, preventing disease, … - Greg Critser
Greg Critser is a journalist who writes for USA Today, including cover stories dealing with medical, health and nutrition topics. He has had work published in the New York Times, The Times, Harper's Magazine, Washington Monthly and is often interviewed on the issue of food politics. - King Kamali
King Kamali, real name "Shahriar Kamali" (born March 29, 1972 in Tehran, Iran), is a IFBB professional bodybuilder. Known for his size and his ability to rattle his opponents' cages at press conferences and on the stage, Kamali is also known for his unique posing style. Nicknamed "The Persian Pearl" and "The Terminator", Kamali was born in Tehran, Iran, but now lives in West New York, New Jersey. - John Hansen
John Hansen is a natural (drug-free) bodybuilder who won the Natural Mr. Universe title twice and was the winner of the first Mr. Natural Olympia. His 25-year career in bodybuilding also includes the Natural America's Cup Championships, Mr. Natural North America, Natural Illinois, Mr. Illinois, Mid-America Championships and the Illinois Cup. Hansen is also the author of "Natural Bodybuilding", published by Human Kinetics. - Franco Columbu
Franco Columbu (August 7, 1941, Ollolai, Sardinia) is an Italian actor and bodybuilder. Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning the title of Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981. At one time he was considered to be one of the world's strongest men and held a number of powerlifting and weightlifting world records. At 5 feet and 5 inches in height, … - William Dufty
William Francis Dufty (1916 - 2002) was an American writer, and nutrition activist. Including ghostwriting, he wrote approximately 40 books. Dufty attended Wayne State University in Detroit. Even in his final decade, he spoke often to students there about unionism. His first and one of his most beloved causes was unionism. Dufty was an organizer for the United Auto Workers, wrote speeches for former UAW President Walter Reuther, … - Fannie Farmer
Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" became a widely used culinary text. Farmer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer. Although she was the oldest of four daughters, born in a family that highly valued education and that expected young Fannie to go to college, … - James Lind
James Lind was the pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting what was perhaps the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits cure scurvy. He also proposed that by distilling sea water you could obtain fresh water. Moreover he fought for the drying of ships by better ventilation, improved clothing and cleanliness of the sailors and introduced fumigaton with sulphur and arsenic. - Gwen Shamblin
Gwen Shamblin is an American Christian non-fiction author and leader of the Remnant Fellowship Church. The most distinctive aspect of her writing is its combination of weight loss programs with Christianity. Shamblin is married and has two children. According to her website, Ms. Shamblin is a registered dietitian, consultant and an instructor of nutrition at University of Memphis. - John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 - December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism, and is best known for the invention of the corn flake breakfast cereal with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg. - Victoria Moran
Victoria Moran is an American writer and speaker, specializing in books on spirituality and nutrition. She lives in New York City with her husband and step-daughter. - Paavo Airola
Dr. Paavo O. Airola, N.D., Ph.D. (1918, Finland-1983) was a nutritionist, naturopathic physician, educator and author. He began his career as an artist. After World War II he emigrated to Canada, where he lived near Cobourg, Ontario, and was first instructor of the Cobourg Art Club. He then moved to the USA, settling in Arizona. He promoted a diet that contained no salt, sugar, coffee, meat, distilled water or refined carbohydrates. - James Privitera
James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. is an American physician who has been involved in several controversial forms of alternative medicine and nutrition. - Sebastian Kneipp
Sebastian Kneipp (May 17, 1821, Stephansried, Germany - June 17, 1897 in Wörishofen) was a Bavarian priest and one of the founders of the Naturopathic medicine movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy, a system of healing involving the application of water through various methods, temperatures and pressures. In Norway he is mostly known for his bread recipe based on whole wheat. - Normann Stadler
Normann ("The Norminator") Stadler (born February 25, 1973 in Wertheim) is a professional triathlete from Germany. He is the winner of the 2004 and 2006 Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. Many believe these victories show that the world championship can still be won based on a strong bike but weaker marathon run. Norman Stadler is a member of the Tri Dubai triathlon team and his major sponsors include PowerBar (nutrition) and Kuota (bike). - Richard Feachem
Sir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng was born in Manchester, UK in 1947. He took up his position as the first Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, in July 2002. Feachem is Professor of International Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, … - Victoria Paris
Victoria Paris (born Sheila Young on November 22, 1965 in Great Falls, Montana) is an American Pornographic actor. She went to college at Montana State University, earning a degree in Nutrition. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles in 1987, and worked as a secretary, before mud wrestling at the Hollywood Tropicana. She moved on to nude modeling, appearing in "Hustler", "High Society", and a European edition of "Penthouse", … - Jamo Nezzar
Jamo Nezzar is a retired professional bodybuilder and internationally renowned personal training expert, and founder of JamCore Training™. - Lee Nelson
Lee "Final Table" Nelson, M.D. (born January 19 1943 in the United States) is a retired New Zealand doctor and now a professional poker player, based in Auckland. Nelson is a regular on the Australasian poker tournament circuit, having won two events at the 2005 Crown Australian Poker Championship. In April 2005, Nelson won the PartyPoker World Open in Maidstone, Kent, England, … - Mike Stroud
Dr Mike Stroud (born 17 April 1955) is an expert on human health under extreme conditions. He became widely known when he partnered Ranulph Fiennes on polar expeditions. Stroud was educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift in the London Borough of Croydon. He obtained a degree (intercalated BSc) from University College London in anthropology and genetics in 1976, before qualifying as a medical doctor at University College Hospital, London in 1979. - Norman W. Walker
Norman Wardhaugh Walker was an English-American businessman and pioneer in the field of vegetable juicing and nutrional health. He advocated the drinking of fresh raw vegetable and fruit juices, both to regain and to maintain one's health. Based on his design, the Norwalk Hydraulic Press Juicer was developed. This juicer continues to be produced and sold today. Walker wrote several books on nutrition and healthy living. - Arthur B. Robinson
Arthur B. Robinson is founder, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, where he conducts research on protein chemistry and on nutrition and predictive and preventive medicine. He also sells the "Robinson Curriculum", which is a self-taught home school curriculum for grammar school children through high school. - Robyn Landis
Robyn Landis is an author, public speaker and folk singer from the northwestern United States. At age 25 she wrote a book called "Bodyfueling" which became a surprise best seller. Bodyfueling is a term she coined and has utilized to promote her phillosophy of increased health and happiness through knowing the important details about how your body works and the important interactions between nutrition and exercise. - Paul Brophy
Paul Brophy (died October 23, 1986) was a fireman in Massachusetts who entered a persistent vegetative state with no believed chance of recovery. Opposing viewpoints between his family and his doctors on how to deal with his condition sparked what may be the first legal case on the right to die. On March 22, 1983, Paul Brophy sustained a basilar artery aneurysm rupture with very destructive neurologic consequences. - Albrecht Thaer
Albrecht Daniel Thaer still received acceptance. The Albrecht-Thaer-Schule in Celle was founded by Thaer in 1786. There are memorials to Thaer in Leipzig, Berlin (Schinkelplatz), Celle, Halle, Möglin, and Kadaň (in front of the agriculture school). - Marjorie Shostak
Marjorie Shostak (May 11, 1945 - October 6 1996) was an American anthropologist. Though she never received a formal degree in anthropology, she conducted extensive fieldwork among the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa and was widely known for her descriptions of the lives of women in this hunter-gatherer society. Shostak was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. in literature from Brooklyn College, … - Conrad Elvehjem
Conrad A. Elvehjem, was internationally known as a biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified a molecule found in fresh meat and yeast as a new vitamin, nicotinic acid, now called niacin. His discovery led directly to the cure of human pellagra, once a major health problem in the United States. Picking up on the work of Joseph Goldberger, he found that nicotinic acid cured black tongue in dogs, an analogous disease to pellagra. - Lafayette Mendel
Lafayette Benedict Mendel (February 5, 1872 - December 9, 1935) was an American biochemist known for his work in nutrition including the study of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, lysine and tryptophan. Mendel was born in Delhi, New York, son of Benedict Mendel, a merchant born in Aufhausen, Germany in 1833, and Pauline Ullman, born in Eschenau, Germany. His father immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1851, his mother in 1870. At 15, he won a New York State scholarship. - Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner was a Swiss physician and a pioneer in nutritional research. At his sanatorium in Zürich, a balanced diet of raw vegetables and fruit was used as a means to heal patients, contrary to the beliefs commonly held at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for the invention of the muesli cereal, although his invention differs significantly from what is today known as "muesli".
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