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Vesanto Melina is an authoritative, engaging and inspiring speaker. She has presented at medical, health, and professional conferences and at events for the public across North America (the U.S, Canada, and Costa Rice), in Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Italy) and in the UK. Your group will enjoy the event!
Add value to your next conference or association meeting with a custom designed presentation or seminar:
- Presentations are continually updated and adapted to suit specific interests
- Each event is typically one hour long, followed by questions and discussion
- The length and range of topics can be adjusted to suit specific conference, association meeting or event requirements
- Vegetarian, vegan, raw, and near-vegetarian lifestyle
"Together, we’ll make healthy living simple, joyful, and achievable."
Did You Know?
Replacing a portion of animal fats with plant fats (seeds, nuts, avocados) can:
- lower risk of death by up to 24%
- reduce cardiovascular mortality by as much as 30%
Presentation Topics
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The cost of a presentation varies depending on length, audience size, and your budget.
Presentations are adjusted to suit the interests and skill levels of the audience.
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Is your diet plant-based or are you moving in that direction? Keep up to date with the very latest on plant protein, omega-3 fatty acids, iron, zinc, non-dairy sources of calcium and meeting all nutritional needs on plant-based diets. Discover how to optimize your intake of vitamins D, B12, and other vitamins. Keep your blood glucose stable and build a healthy-supportive microbiome.
This informative and entertaining session will help you to fine tune your way of eating. You’ll get plenty of practical tips to keep you in great health with delicious food.
This presentation is by a strong and fit 84-year-old Registered Dietitian. Her brain is working well enough to have just completed a powerhouse book on this topic, and she inspires others in presentations internationally. Plus, she has fun doing it! Here you will learn to reduce your risk of failing health and chronic disease. You will learn how to stay healthy as you age. Plus, you will get tips on how to keep it simple!
This presentation is designed for health professionals. It provides tools to help you support plant-based clients and those who may want to move that direction. It helps to design diets that support optimal health and reduce risk or reverse chronic disease. This includes management of key nutrients: protein, essential fats, four minerals (iron, zinc, iodine, and calcium) and two vitamins (D and B12). It is summed up in a simple food guide. Throughout there will be practical tips as well as references.
Dietary choice can have a significant effect on greenhouse gas emissions, water use and pollution, and land use and acidification. Here we compare a range of popular diets in terms of their environmental impacts. Are plant-based diets suitable for every stage of the life cycle? Is plant protein as good as animal protein, for athletes, for building and sustaining muscle and strength? In a sustainable diet, what do we eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
How do we prevent the damaging effects of diabetes? Can type 2 diabetes (T2D) be driven into remission? Can you reduce your risk of diabetes and prediabetes when they run in the family? In this lively and reassuring presentation, we will cover in detail the most effective dietary patterns that protect us. We will give practical tips and summarize the research. Vesanto Melina has worked effectively with clients and is co-author of The Kick Diabetes Cookbook.
This presentation covers the bases for key nutrients to keep you and your family in optimal health. Would you like to reduce your and your family’s risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cancer? Exactly how can we eat to stay in optimal health? And how can we make it simple?
This presentation addresses the following topics about a plant-based diet:
- Can you get enough protein at all stages of the life cycle, from pregnancy and through the senior years?
- Even for an athlete?
- Can you get the tastes you like?
- Can it be easy?
- What vitamins do you need to consider?
- What’s an overall food guide?
These not just ideal sources of protein, iron, zinc, B vitamins, fiber, and more. Legumes also help rebalance appetite and hormone signals, stabilize our blood glucose levels and steady our appetite. They help reduce our risk of chronic disease. These protein-rich foods can be as effective as animal protein in building and retaining muscle and strength. This is borne out by a powerful body of research among athletes, males and females, adults young and old. Plus, they are superstars when it comes to environmental sustainability!
In this presentation, you will learn how to incorporate plant based eating into your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. This can work whether you are a gourmet chef, a novice in the kitchen, or mainly a restaurant eater. And, your meals can be delicious!
- Is your diet shifting in a plant-based direction?
- Are you considering going plant-based?
- What are the benefits?
- What supplements should you consider?
- Can you get enough protein? Can an athlete be plant-based?
This presentation provides a comprehensive overview on how to keep yourself in superb health on a plant-based diet.
- Enjoy an update on protein power from plant foods
- Bone building without a drop of dairy
- Getting reliable sources of vitamin B12
- Including the good fats in your menus
- keeping your blood sugar level between meals without resorting to vegan junk food.
Enjoy recent highlights from the world of vegetarian, vegan, and raw food nutrition and a few popular topics about a plant-based diet including:
- Where will I get my protein?
- What are iron rich plant foods for babies, children, (and everybody else)?
- Are carbs good or bad
- Is soy good or bad?
- Will a vegetarian diet make me healthier?
- Can I get tasty food?
Across North America, cohousing communities, the 21st century version of the village, are providing a new and heart warming way to live. These communities express many ideals such as trying to leave a lighter ecological footprint, share meals (vegetarian and non-vegetarian), learning to live with compassion for other beings, and finding safe and happy ways to live in community.
In this beautifully visual presentation, I introduce you to the concept of cohousing and touch on existing communities. I present features of WindSong Cohousing Community near Vancouver, BC (where I lived for almost two decades) and Vancouver Cohousing, where my partner Cam and I continue to enjoy being part of the community. Together, we have visited twenty-three cohousing communities across British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, California, and Denmark (where cohousing began).
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Comments from Presentations
And we appreciate your reminding us of the importance of dietary choice.
With gratitude,
Kindest regards and many thanks! ”
“Very fact based; I learned about websites to learn from and research. Convinced me to explore vegan options”
“Very informative. Vesanto was very clear on all points and very easy to follow.
She also made it enjoyable and was a pleasure to listen to.”
“I thought this session was great! There was so much to learn about the vegan diet”
"Very interesting. Great speaker. Taking useful information back with me to apply to my work & family.”
“Was happy to learn about the health benefits of a vegan diet in relation to heart health and other chronic illnesses.”
“Very informative, very knowledgeable on food, good speaker, easy to understand and listen to.”