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Born in Chicago on the 21st December 1966, Harvey Walden IV joined the U.S. Marines aged 17 and completed his Basic Military Marine training (also referred to as 'Boot Camp') at MCRD San Diego, C.A.

20 years on and Harvey is still a serving marine. He now holds the rank of First Sergeant.

Harvey was a Drill Instructor at MCRD Parris Island, S.C. and has trained numerous platoons making men into marines and officers and ensuring recruits are fully prepared to meet the challenges of the battlefield by supplying the tools necessary to perform given tasks with efficiency, and the confidence to succeed in the face of adversity.

Harvey always pushes his teams to their absolute limit and has always set records with each platoon in drill and fitness tests, along with outstanding marksmanship.

Harvey is a weapons expert and has black belts for various types of martial arts.

Besides Harvey's tough marine fitness schedule he also maintains his own gruelling personal fitness regime everyday. He has a keen interest in General Health, Sports and Fitness and has played semi-pro American Football as a running back for the U.K's London Mets.

Dedicated to a healthier body and mind, nutrition and wellness coach, educator and culinary expert, Jackie Keller, is the Founding Director of NutriFit, LLC, author of Body After Baby, A Simple, Healthy Plan to Lose Your Baby Weight Fast (Avery/Penguin Group; May 2007), and Cooking, Eating & Living Well, a cookbook and guide to nutrition-related lifestyle change.

In 1987, Jackie Keller and her partner, husband Phil Yaney, formed NutriFit to help people achieve their health needs. Beyond the fresh, delicious and nutritious delights that are delivered to hundreds of clients, NutriFit also delivers an exceptional level of service and takes a holistic approach to each client and their needs. Keller helps with customized strategies designed specifically with the client’s well-being and personal goals in mind.

With well over 2,000 NutriFit recipes, “we are far from your standard catering company,” says Keller. “Ours is a comprehensive approach to understanding the needs of each client - taking into account their health objectives, nutritional needs, allergies, likes and dislikes, exercise regimen and family history of disease.”
           
Keller, whose father passed away from a heart attack while she was just a teenager, has made it her mission to help people live longer and healthier lives.  “I have a personal commitment to help people circumvent heart disease and other chronic ailments,” she explains. “It drives almost everything I do.”

NutriFit has provided meal service to numerous celebrities, including Barbra Streisand, Uma Thurman, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron, Angelica Huston, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Penelope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Val Kilmer, Tia Carrere, Billy Bob Thornton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Topher Grace, and fitness guru Kathy Smith. In addition, Keller has conducted over 1,500 health education classes nationwide at hundreds of locations, including Sony Pictures, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Neutrogena, Union Bank, Xerox Corporation and Kaiser Permanente.

Keller has appeared as a nutrition expert and wellness coach on the Today Show, Early Show, Extra, Discovery Health, History Channel, Fit TV, Biggest Loser, VH1, E! Entertainment, Access Hollywood, KNBC-TV, KABC-TV, KCBS-TV, FOX 11, KTTV-TV, KCOP-TV, Fine Living Network, and many more including dozens of print publications. Also, she was the featured nutrition and health expert on NBC’s The Other Half, guiding six women through “Better Body” challenges.  

Keller is a recipient of the Outstanding Person in Cancer Control award from the American Cancer Society, and the Branch Chair award from the
American Heart Association. She currently serves as Chairperson of the Board of the Valley Wellness Association, and is a member of the California Health Promotion Collaborative.

Jackie Keller holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California, certification in Professional Fitness Instruction from UCLA Extension, and is a licensed wellness coach through Wellcoaches. Keller received her culinary training from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France, and has extensive experience in the hotel and restaurant industry. Keller is also an authorized provider of Certified Food Handler Training for the County of Los Angeles. Additionally, NutriFit was awarded the California Fit Business Award in both 2004 and 2005, which recognizes companies for workplace wellness initiatives.

For more information on Jackie Keller or NutriFit, please contact 800-341-4190 or 310-473-1989 (for local calls). Also visit www.nutrifitonline.com or www.jackiekeller.com. To schedule an interview with Jackie Keller, please contact Harris Shepard Public Relations, 310-277-0437.

Respected medical consultant, New York Times -bestselling author, lecturer, and practicing physician
Mark A. Hyman, M.D., is a leader in the emerging field of functional medicine. Functional medicine is ideal medicine
made real; it is a new medical model—a more successful way of treating human illness and disease—born of recent technological and clinical advances applied in a fresh methodology.

It is, Hyman says, “the future of medicine, available now.” Functional medicine moves beyond diagnosis-based
medicine to incorporate new research that for the first time allows treatment of the underlying causes of disease.
A broad range of treatments are used that help restore and optimize normal function and health, including conventional therapies, herbal treatments, and alternative methodologies in one encompassing, patient-centered approach.

In his work, Dr. Hyman applies the best of conventional and alternative medicine with cutting-edge science, placing
him at the forefront of progressive medical care and education in the United States . A strong and pioneering voice
for change in the fundamental way health care is perceived and delivered, as well as for a new paradigm for physicians,
he has launched an innovative approach that taps into years of medical research that has not, until now, been
translated into clinical practice in hospitals, homes, and the community.

Dr. Hyman is the Editor-in-Chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine , the premiere peer-reviewed
professional journal in the fields of integrative medicine and alternative medicine; and is the Medical Editor of
Alternative Medicine Magazine , which is dedicated to helping consumers improve their health and the quality
of their lives. He is on the editorial board of Integrative Medicine : A Clinician's Journal. Dr. Hyman collaborates
with Harvard Medical School 's Brigham and Women's Hospital and its Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

Dr. Hyman has testified regarding health promotion and wellness for the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and has consulted with Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona on his diabetes prevention initiative.

Dr. Hyman was co-Medical Director for eight years at Canyon Ranch Lenox, one of the world's leading health resorts; and co-authored the New York Times -bestseller Ultraprevention: The 6-week Program That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Scribner), winner of the Books for a Better Life Award, which honors the best self-improvement books published each year.

He is also author of The Five Forces of Wellness: The Ultraprevention System for Living an Active, Age-Defying, Disease-Free Life (Nightingale) and creator of The Detox Box (Sounds True), a unique, easy-to-follow program designed to help people significantly rejuvenate their health and vitality by cleansing their bodies from toxins in the environment, diet, and spirit.

A guest on the Today show, The Early Show , and The View with Barbara Walters, Dr. Hyman has also appeared on CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR, as well as many other television and radio stations. He is quoted regularly in leading consumer magazines including Elle, Fitness, Glamour, Family Circle, Health, Natural Health, Self, Shape , and Town & Country .

Dr. Hyman serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a pioneering educational center for training health professionals in the science and practice of nutritional biochemistry, molecular medicine, and preventing and treating the diseases of aging. He is on the Board of Advisors and faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine's Food as Medicine training program.

A popular lecturer, Dr. Hyman speaks on a wide range of topics, including natural approaches to common health conditions, optimal health, cardiovascular health, menopause and women's health, brain wellness, obesity and weight loss, optimal aging, and longevity medicine.His website, www.drhyman.com , empowers health care consumers and practitioners, enabling them to benefit from the wealth of information and scientific articles he has gathered on the fundamental causes of illness, wellness promotion, vitamin and herbal supplements, and more.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Hyman worked as a rural family physician in the mountains of Idaho , and in China as the Medical Director for development and planning of an international medical center in Beijing . He also consulted in Hong Kong on medical centers for expatriates in Asia . Before joining Canyon Ranch, Dr. Hyman served in an inner city emergency room in Springfield , Massachusetts.

Dr. Hyman graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University , magna cum laude from the Ottawa University School of Medicine, and from the University of San Francisco 's program in Family Medicine at the Community Hospital of Santa Rosa. He is board certified in Family Medicine, and resides in western Massachusetts with his family.