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Author or Source:Naturally SavvyMonday, 30 June 2008
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Welcome to NaturallySavvy.com

Welcome to the Naturally Savvy™ website. We created our information-based website to inform you about the basics of natural health. Living a naturally healthy lifestyle refers to using and consuming natural and organic and green products. For the most part, these products should not contain harmful preservatives, food coloring, harsh chemicals, growth hormones and/or pesticides, all of which have been linked to degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. We want you to understand the importance of living a naturally healthy lifestyle and how you, too, can begin to integrate natural, organic and green products into your life.

Meet the Naturally Savvy Team

Andrea Donsky, B. COMM, is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.) and Co-Founder of The Healthy Shopper Inc. Naturally Savvy Media.

 

A natural visionary and successful entrepreneur, Andrea holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.).

Born and raised in Canada, Andrea has dedicated her life to sharing her passion for living a naturally and healthy lifestyle with the world, while helping to guide others through the confusing maze of 21st century supermarkets and fad diets.

Andrea was already a successful retail product marketing manager with J. M. Smucker before she took a leap of faith in 1998 and quit her job to pursue her passion.

She enrolled in a holistic nutrition program and began to understand how food affected her body while learning about the benefits of an all-natural and organic diet. For the first time in her life, she knew she had something to share with the world.

The following year, she gathered all of her energy and together with Randy Boyer, the two launched their dream career by founding The Healthy Shopper Inc., a coupon book for natural and organic products. Reaching more than 190,000 people a year, the Healthy Shopper, to this day, remains the only coupon book in Canada for natural and organic products.

Eight years later, lightning struck again during a chance meeting with Dr. David Katz at an consumer trade show, which inspired the pair to launch Naturally Savvy, a sophisticated media company whose sole purpose is to educate the masses about living the lifestyle she truly loves.

Since then, Andrea has established herself as a respected and authoritative voice in all corners of the health and wellness industry. She has appeared as a natural living expert on news segments which have aired on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Univision, WPIX, WGN and CBC Newsworld. Her voice has been heard on XM/Sirius Radio, where she appears as a regular guest on The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick. Her words have appeared in a variety of natural health magazines such as Alive, Tonic and Organic Lifestyle and online at Reader’s Digest, Wellness.com, SheKnows.com and The Family Groove.

Andrea is proud to be the kind of mom who feeds her kids fish oil, flaxseeds and seaweed.


 

Randy Boyer, B.A., is Co-Founder of The Healthy Shopper Inc. and Naturally Savvy Media.

Randy Boyer is a trusted source for information about all things natural and organic.

Randy has always been an advocate for healthy living, integrating fitness and healthy eating into her life. Her natural and organic lifestyle began when she met Andrea more than ten years ago. With a unique idea and a strong marketing background they began The Healthy Shopper Inc., the only coupon book in Canada for natural and organic products. Combining brand loyalty and a core of supporting retailers, consumers across Canada follow them and look for their coupon book year after year. With 190,000 copies distributed annually through more than 400 health food stores, The Healthy Shopper coupon book is a staple in thousands of homes across the country.

Following eight years of working in the natural and organic industry, their product knowledge grew and thus Naturally Savvy was born – a user friendly, informative website educating and promoting a natural and organic lifestyle.

A recognized expert in the industry, Randy has made dozens of radio and television appearances promoting her message that eating natural and organic and living a healthy lifestyle is the road to good health including The Michael Dresser Show, The Exchange with David Smith, and Health Radio Network with Barbra Alexander and NBC’s KNTV with Laura Garcia-Cannon. Randy was recently invited to be a regular guest on the XM/Sirius radio show The Morning Jolt with Larry Flick.

Encouraging natural and organic living has become an everyday activity not only through their website, through mass media magazines like Oprah, Prevention and Family Fun and consumer shows but also in their everyday experiences within their community and in their own backyard. Randy can always be found inspiring others to consider natural and organic!


 

Lisa Tsakos, B.A., is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.)

She teaches nutrition at various private schools and colleges (including the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, the Transformational Arts College, and at Centennial College) and has been featured on the Discovery Channel, numerous radio programs, and is a contributor to various publications and websites including NaturallySavvy.com, Tribune Media, Toronto Life Fashion Magazine, NOW Magazine and trade publications.  Lisa has also taught natural food cooking workshops and authored several books including: Cooking for Nu-Vitality; The Weight Battlefield and at least twenty text books on the subject of nutrition used by schools across the country. She has also written several course curricula on various nutrition topics for the aforementioned schools.

Over the past decade, Lisa’s Nu-Vitality (Healthy!) Weight Program has helped employees at numerous corporations and organizations including the Toronto Police Service, to lose thousands of pounds.

After losing 50 pounds fifteen years ago through a natural diet (not by fad dieting or using weight loss gimmicks) and by improving her digestion, Lisa was committed to sharing her newfound knowledge by returning to school to study nutrition. She is a shining example of someone who practices what she preaches.

She lives with her health conscious husband, a former professional volleyball athlete and coach and their two young children.


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Dr. David Katz is Naturally Savvy's Mentor
Dr. Katz is recognized by The Consumers' Research Council of America as one of America's leading physicians in preventive medicine. He is an internist that specializes in preventive medicine, and is the director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Katz is a nationally renowned authority on nutrition and weight control. His research interests focus on prevention of chronic diseases - specifically cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer.

Dr. Katz is a medical contributor to ABC News. He is a supporter of natural and organic products.

For more information about Dr. Katz, click here.