Monday July 22nd, 2013.
Julie Daniluk hosts Healthy Gourmet (OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network), a reality cooking show that highlights the ongoing battle between taste and nutrition by using unique groups such as bikers, dragon boat racers and ballroom dancers to challenge their taste buds with nutritious foods. She is a health expert for the Marilyn Dennis Show (CTV) and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including The Dr Oz Show, CTV’s Breakfast TV, Wylde on Health (CP24) and Lisa Live Radio (610CKB).
Television viewers also recognize Julie from her “busted” segments on The Right Fit (OWNetwork) where she examines the foods people need to stay healthy, acting as a nutrition encyclopedia. Her fun and engaging style comes in handy when she creates a
recipe that is packed with health tips for www.chatelaine.com.
After four years of rigorous theatre arts training, Julie found herself reading more about nutrition than about Shakespeare. She had an insatiable appetite for figuring out how and why food affects us so profoundly. She went back to school to become a nutritionist, graduating from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, and went on to become a co-operative owner of one of Canada’s largest health food stores, The Big Carrot Natural Food Market. Julie was also health editor for Viva Magazine, a well–known, natural health publication with a circulation of over 120,000 coast to coast.
Julie’s food activism has led her to speak to Parliament about the potential health risks of genetically modified food. In order to bring food advocacy issues to a wider audience, Julie has been the event producer for festivals such as Bio-Diversity with David Suzuki and FoodShare’s Field to Table Festival. Julie’s search for nutritional understanding has taken her around the world. Her greatest joy to date has been cooking on the Greenpeace tall sailing ship the Rainbow Warrior during its GE-free New Zealand tour.
After many years of working on the frontline of the nutrition field, Julie’s clients continue to ask for a menu-planning cookbook. Her first book, Meals That Heal Inflammation, (Random House) is now available and will help people enjoy allergy-free foods that taste great and assist the body in the healing process.
Audio to follow the interview.
