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We are so privileged and thankful to have the support of wonderful, successful individuals who share the values that this website promotes. Please take a moment to visit the links indicated within each profile below.

 

  Sir Julian Rose      Sir Julian Rose 
Writer,  Organic Farmer, holistic environmental activist. 

Sir Julian Rose

 is the author of "Changing Course for Life-Local Solutions to Global Problems, in which he draws together all the threads of his highly diverse life experiences.
(changingcourseforlife.info)
 
In 1990 he took on the position of Agricultural Correspondent of the green broadsheet 'Environment Now', becoming one of the first UK activists to warn of the impending dangers of genetically modified foods.
    
He moved back to Hardwick in 1983, to become a full-time farmer, completing the conversion of the estate to organic farming methods, a process started in 1975, making him one of the pioneers of this ecological land management system. Joining the board of the Soil Association in 1984, Julian became involved in an intense campaign to promote ecological food and farming in the face of the rapid rise of industrial agriculture. In 1986, Hardwick's smoked bacon product won the first national organic food award. Three years later, Julian led a successful high-profile campaign to save unpasteurised milk from a government ban. A campaign which he had to repeat in 1997 due to a second (unsuccessful) government attempt to introduce a ban.

 

Testimonial: "Natural Food Finder is a very useful site. There can be little doubt that an ever widening knowledge of what 'real food' really is - and what it provides in the way of nourishment taste and sheer pleasure - is of key importance."

 

 

  Sir Julian Rose      Joanna Blythman
Author and Journalist 

Joanna Blythman

 is the author of the well known books titled "Bad food Britain" and "Shopped". http://www.joannablythmanwriting.com
 

Joanna has written about food for over two decades. She has been a regular contributor to many newspapers and magazines, including the Independent, Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Sunday Herald, the Grocer, Scotland on Sunday, the Ecologist, BBC Olive, BBC Countryfile, Marie Claire, Evening Standard, Country Living, Country Life and the New Statesman.

She broadcasts on food matters, on programmes such as Women’s Hour, Farming Today, Newsnight, Tonight, BBC Breakfast and Today. 

Joanna has won numerous awards for her articles and books, including five Glenfiddich Awards, a Caroline Walker Media Award for Improving the Nation’s Health by Means of Good Food, a Guild of Food Writers Award, a Derek Cooper Award- one of BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Award- and a Good Housekeeping award for her Outstanding Contribution to Food. 

Joanna gets involved with creative and innovative food projects. She researched restaurants for Michael Winterbottom’s BBC2 series The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden, and was a judge on Channel 4’s Iron Chef. She sits on the board of the Fife Diet, the pioneering local food experiment and is an advisor to Slow Food UK.

 

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Ben Pratt    Natasha Campbell McBride MD
Nutrition & digestive Expert, Author, Presenter & homemaker
http://www.doctor-natasha.com/ /www.gaps.me

Natasha Campbell-Mcbride MD

is a keynote speaker at many professional conferences and seminars around the world. She frequently gives talks to health practitioners, patient groups and associations.

 

Dr. Campbell-McBride developed her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition. Natasha completed a postgraduate degree in neurology and also gained a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University, UK.

She has specialised in using nutrition as a treatment for Autism, and has become recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in treating children and adults with learning disabilities and other mental disorders, as well as children and adults with digestive and immune disorders. Dr McBride currently runs the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic.

She is also a Member of The Society of Authors and is a regular contributing health editor to a number of magazines and newsletters.

Please visit. www.gaps.me for more details

Testimonial: Natural Food Finder is an excellent source of information for all those people, who care about what they eat, it will help them to find good quality natural foods locally. Human kind used to live in the world of survival of the fittest. Now we live in the world of survival of the wise. Those who stay informed and choose very carefully what they feed themselves and their children are going to protect their families from all the modern "epidemics" of degenerative disease.

 


Ben Pratt    Pete Cohen
Author, TV Presenter & life-coach
www.petecohen.com

 

Pete Cohen

 

Pete has been recognised as a successful author of eleven books that enable people to read and work with him to beat habits and boost self-esteem. Pete is highly respected in the world of sport and has been the peak performance coach to numerous world-class sports people, including Ronnie O'Sullivan, Sally Gunnell, Ellen Macarthur, Roger Black, Kent Cricket Team, and the Arsenal Football team. Pete also undertook a one-on-one programme with World Snooker Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan helping him to win his second World title in 2004.
His fun motivational techniques and strategies are used in a way to help people control their own well being and realise their full potential. Pete is highly qualified in many different areas of psychology, personal development and health and fitness. He has an incredible understanding of people and the limitations they have which prevent them from living more productive and happy lives. Pete has a unique on-line weight loss programme petecohen.tv and a free resource sight weightlossguru.com


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Ben Pratt    Barry Groves
Author, lecturer, nutrition and health researcher.
www.second-opinions.co.uk

 

Barry Groves

Is the author of "Trick and Treat" and "Natural health and weightloss".


Barry was a columnist writing about dietary and health matters for several health-related magazines such as The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Caduceus and Namaste. He has also written columns for the Weekend Financial Times, The Oxford Times, and The Glade. He has also lectured in hospitals to medical professionals about the management and prevention of 'modern diseases' such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

 

His writing earned him the Sophie Coe Prize at the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food History.

An International author, Barry has written a number of popular and more technical books which have been published in countries as far apart as Argentina and Russia, as well as all English-speaking countries.

With a doctorate in nutritional science from the distance learning university, Trinity College & University, gained from 20 years' research experience and a 60.000-word dissertation on the Politics of the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies (Commercial version), he now divides his time between writing and giving talks to Womens' Institutes, Probus, and other groups and as a guest lecturer on cruise liners.

He is also currently:

For five years he served as an elected councillor on the West Oxfordshire District Council where he was Chairman of the Public Health Committee.

 

Testimonial:

"At the beginning of the twenty-first century we are ruled by the big food and 'health' industries - whose only interest is profit - despite the fact that both should be totally unnecessary to a healthy life. As a consequence of their influences, never before in our history has there been such a need for 'real food' as there is today. Natural Food Finder is an essential resource in our fight to live long, healthy and disease-free lives."

Note: We note with sadness the recent passing of Barry Groves (April 2013) who lived a life of passion and dedication to the nutritional cause he truly believed in. He was a man of intengrity who truly lived the way he preached.

International Patrons

 

 

Sally Fallon Morell - Patron Sally Fallon Morell 
Journalist, Chef, Nutrition- researcher, Homemaker & community activist. 

Sally Fallon Morell

 is the author of the best-selling book Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Sally is founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (westonaprice.org) and editor of Wise Traditions, the Foundation’s quarterly journal, as well as the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com). She is also president and owner of NewTrends Publishing.
 
Sally encourages individuals and families to live the principles found through the  research of Dr Weston A Price. Her own family have, over the years, enjoyed a diet rich in animal fats, and containing the protective factors in old fashioned foodstuffs like cod liver oil, liver and eggs.
 
The best-selling book Nourishing Traditions has stimulated the public health and medical communities to take a new look at the importance of traditional foods and preparation techniques, and to reexamine the many myths about saturated fats and cholesterol. The book places special emphasis on the feeding of babies and children to ensure optimal development during their crucial growing years.
 

Testimonial: "A big thank you to Natural food finder for providing the information that will allow the citizens of the UK and Ireland to find nutritious traditional foods and reclaim their heritage of vibrant health."

 

 

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Sally Fallon Morell - Patron Jessica Prentice
Chef, local food activist, author & co-founder of     Three Stone Hearth.
 

Jessica Prentice

is a professional chef, passionate home cook, local foods activist, and author. Her first book, Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, follows thirteen moons of a traditional agrarian calendar through the year, weaving together ecology, culture, mythology, and personal history into a nourishing whole that reconnects us with the natural rhythms of the earth. Prentice is a co-creator of the Local Foods Wheel, and coined the word “locavore.” Most recently, Jessica joined four business partners in founding Three Stone Hearth, a Community Supported Kitchen in Berkeley that uses local, sustainable ingredients to prepare nutrient- dense, traditional foods on a community scale. She lives, works, and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her website, www.wisefoodways.com.

 

Testimonial: Natural food finder is a wealth of helpful information, and will be invaluable to those who want to find the foods that support their own health and help to rebuild local, sustainable food systems."