Biography
Annemarie Colbin, PhD
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., has been called “a maverick nutritional theorist” because of her original and unconventional points of view. She has expressed those with great success in all her teaching and writing activities. The school she founded in 1977, now known as The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City, offers career programs and public classes in health-supportive cooking and natural healing.
Her 20-year bestselling book Food and Healing is used as a textbook in natural healing schools, and has been published in Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Polish, Bulgarian, and Czech. Her other books are The Natural Gourmet, The Book of Whole Meals, and Food and Our Bones.
Dr. Colbin is adjunct professor of holistic nutrition at Empire State College, and teaches frequently at the Open Center and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as well as the Natural Gourmet Institute. She was a featured speaker for the November 2006 CAMExpo West in Los Angeles, and for the May 2006 Nutrition and Health Conference sponsored by Andrew Weil, MD, with the University of Arizona and the Rosenthal Center of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Dr. Colbin provides private wellness consultations, lectures widely, continues to publish her work in popular and scholarly journals, and is generally recognized as an expert in the uses of food for health. She volunteers as the president of the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS), and on the Steering Committee of the NY Coalition for OneVoice.
Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD
Dr. Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD is a board certified pediatrician, who received his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine in 1987. He completed a three year pediatric residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC and a one year fellowship at Bellevue Hospital-NYU School of Medicine in the pediatric outpatient department and emergency room. Dr. Palevsky’s clinical practice from 1991-2000 includes experience in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine and primary care pediatrics. From 2000-2002, he was in practice as the holistic and integrative pediatrician at the Continuum Center for Health & Healing, a complementary care medical facility affiliated with the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
In his current practice, Dr. Palevsky offers consultations and educational programs to families and practitioners in the areas of preventive and holistic health, nutrition for adults, infants and children, safe, alternative treatments for common and difficult to treat acute and chronic pediatric and adult conditions, vaccination controversies, mindful parenting, and rethinking the medical paradigm.
Most importantly, he offers the hope to many families that we can safely heal children with acute and chronic medical conditions, without the use of suppressive medications. Case by case he incorporates western and eastern medical theories, and counsels about the benefits of preventive medicine, nutrition, lifestyle changes, acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, cranial-sacral therapy, environmental medicine, homeopathy, essential oils and natural healing modalities such as aromatherapy, yoga, Reiki, meditation, reflexology and mindfulness.
Dr. Palevsky is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, (www.aap.org), Past –President of the American Holistic Medical Association (www.holisticmedicine.org), co-founder and President of the Holistic Pediatric Association (www.hpakids.org), a Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, (www.holisticboard.org), and a medical advisory board member to the Holistic Moms Network, (www.holisticmoms.org), Natural Gourmet Institute for Food & Health in New York City (www.naturalgourmetschool.com), Develomental Delay Resources (www.devdelay.org), Families for Natural Living, and the National Vaccine Information Center (www.nvic.org)
Bernard Gavzer, Executive Producer
Bernard Gavzer is a veteran newsman with a distinguished career in investigative journalism with the Associated Press for more than 25 years, and as a special producer for WNBC-TV for 13 years.
He won five Emmys as producer-writer. One Emmy was for a series on the dangers of asbestos; another for a report on the dangers of flammable pup tents, which resulted in new federal legislation; another for butcher’s bunco, a meat market scam, and one for the Mexican laundry for black market babies.
Gavzer also free-lanced for PARADE magazine, producing more than 75 stories, including 25 covers.
Among various awards are the Sigma Delta Chi distinguished foreign reporting award for a series on drug trafficking among U.S. troops in Vietnam; the Mike Berger Award for reporting on the Harlem riots; the first National Council on Crime and Delinquency Award for Distinguished Reporting in Criminal Justice; the NCCD’s PASS Award for his PARADE report on America’s prisons.
He has authored two books, published and distributed by The Associated Press, dealing with personal protection against crime, and also wrote with colleagues Triumph and Tragedy and The Torch is Passed , dealing with the assassinations of the Kennedys.
Mark Westin, Producer, GOAT (Geek-Of-All-Trades)
Mark Westin has two decades of media experience in positions ranging from writer to producer to development executive. His credits include channel launches, documentaries and magazine shows, live event coverage, and the creation of hours of news, entertainment and lifestyle programming. Since 2000, he has developed web content to complement and enhance his television and film productions.
Mark is also an accomplished composer with two film scores and several soundtrack songs to his credit. He serves on the board of Dramatic Risks, a non-profit cultural organization that produces arts programs for educational institutions. Mark is the “questioning voice” you hear on Annemarie and Larry’s videoblog posts
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Impressive! - I like it! I would like to hear more. Good Luck!
I like this site!
I listened to the vaccine talk and I remember reading ( In the Wellbeing Journal) that some girls have actually died from the HPV vaccine.
Here in Texas the governor tried to make the vaccine manditory but the mothers said no way. We need to stay alert, as the old school paradigm, as I call it, wants to vaccinate more and more. We need a choice.
I look forward to more good information. The visual format is great. I feel your passion!
Ann Slezewick
Drs. Colbin and Palevsky,
It is great to see you “live” on the web. This is a great format and I wish you both the best with it.
Would love to see a segment on coffee. This beverage seems to get touted for its health benefits quite often, and only the caffeine gets blamed for ailments like reflux and migraines. However, my research leads me to believe it is the acid and chemicals from processing that mess up bowel ecology that leads to a host of symptoms for many people. I eliminated “hormone-related” migraines by giving up my one cup of coffee a day, plus got rid of sugar cravings, boosted my energy levels, and I dropped 5 lbs.!
Re coffee (Debra’s post): I have worked in many, many offices as temporary help (maybe abou 400 different offices over the years) and I can say this: The economy would go down the tubes overnight if the coffee bean were to disappear. About 99% of all office workers drink coffee from the moment they arrive til they go home, in order to function. And I am sure that, at home, they start out the morning with the evil black drink, too. I consider myself fortunate to be able to do without it.
However, do you want the economy of N. America to tank? I promise you it will, if workers of all kinds do not have their stimulant. I am not joking. You are healthy people, Debra, Annemarie & Dr. P, and you likely hang around with your own kind, but believe me, that is not the “real” world, for better or worse.
Just grist for the mill and I hope you do not mind my saying these things.
Betty,
I am not suggesting that the coffee bean should disappear, but rather that people should be aware of what they are ingesting. Then, they can make their own health decisions.
P.S. To Betty,
I work with many kinds of people, not just “my own kind”. I see many people suffering and being drugged for problems that could be ameliorated with a simple change in diet or lifestyle. - Deb