Dr, Pam Popper - The Wellness Forum

Dr. Pam Popper from the Wellness Forum in Worthington shared the health benefits of a whole food plant-based diet on January 27. Her presentation certainly provoked a lot of questions and left Rotarians thinking about the food we eat.

Dr. Pam Popper is a naturopath, an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine and health, and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. The company offers educational programs designed to assist individuals in changing their health outcomes through improved diet and lifestyle habits; to assist employers in reducing the costs of health insurance and medical care for employees; and to educate health care professionals about how to use diet and lifestyle for preventing, reversing, and stopping the progression of degenerative disease.

Dr. Popper is the author of several books; her most recent is Solving America's Healthcare Crisis. She is the Founder of The Wellness Forum Foundation, which offers programming in schools designed to improve children's health through better nutrition.

Dr. Popper serves on the Physician's Steering Committee for the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington D.C. Dr. Popper is one of the health care professionals involved in the famed Sacramento Food Bank Project, in which economically disadvantaged people were shown how to reverse their diseases and eliminate medications with diet.

Dr. Popper is part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's teaching team at eCornell, teaching part of a certification course on plant-based nutrition. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and appears in a new film, Forks Over Knives, which opened in major theaters in May 2011. She is one of the co-authors of the companion book which has been on the the New York Times bestseller list for 28 weeks.

You can view a portion of her presentation to Dublin AM Rotary via YouTube link below and on www.dublinamrotary.org 

 http://youtu.be/DFCGUTHvUxo (part 1)

 http://youtu.be/GDaEb2CAzW8 (part 2