<p>Host Marcus Guiliano is a chef on a mission.</p><p>He is an award-winning chef green restaurateur real-food activist professional speaker restaurant consultant and ultramarathoner. He is also owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro the first green-certified restaurant in the Hudson Valley of New York. Dealing with numerous health challenges in the 1990s Marcus discovered healthy food and healthy living and was able to eliminate all of the medications he was taking and cure an asthmatic condition he’d had since birth. Now besides opening and managing a green-certified restaurant in New York State he devotes his career to promoting a whole-food whole-life approach to health which includes sustainable ethical business practices.</p><p>Marcus Guiliano has been a professional chef for twenty-five years and was named one of five of America’s top food activists by the nonprofit One Green Planet.</p><p>This collection of programs features Chef Guiliano on food and health issues along with input from such internationally known activists as Helen Nearing Pema Chödrön and Julie Butterfly Hill.</p><p>The following topics and more are included:</p><ul><li>Eco-fish safe and healthy tuna; how the body wants loving attention; and a visit to Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg’s Camp Waterlogg garden</li><li>Healthy Halloween tips; super fruits; being true to yourself; and the story “Friends from the Vegetable Patch” a Camp Waterlogg improvisation</li><li>Healthy Thanksgiving tips; raw foods; omega fatty acids; how to stop obsessive-thinking patterns; and a profile of the BearManor Media book <i>Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy</i> by Bill Cassara</li><li>Healthy fats; healthy holiday gifts; running in the cold; and activist Julia Butterfly Hill on living in a 180-foot-tall 1500-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days to prevent it from being cut down</li><li>Beating the winter blues; Community Supported Agriculture (CSA); a profile of Rusty Plough Farm an organic CSA in Ellenville New York; and Helen Nearing on pioneering the back-to-nature movement with her husband Scott Nearing</li><li>The science of healthy eating; the five “worst foods;” and noted Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chödrön on applying meditation to everyday life</li><li>Getting kids to eat healthy food; feed-lot beef; and a Popeye the Sailor tribute</li><li>A bonus track of music live from the Aroma Thyme Bistro</li></ul>