Meet Margaret

Margaret Floyd, NTP HHC CHFS

I love food and everything about it: growing it, cooking it, eating it, healing with it, talking about it, understanding it, relating to it.

Food is such an integral part of our life. We have to eat it multiple times a day just to survive and, as one of my teachers said, “we are, at our most basic level, walking food.” True that.

I had my first powerful experience with the fundamental importance of food in my mid-20s when a change to my diet resolved a chronic skin condition I’d struggled with for years. At the time I was deeply immersed in the world of social ventures and business consulting, first with the boutique consultancy Spark Strategies and then as VP Member Development with Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.

Fast forward a few years and I realized my true calling was food and health, and, more specifically, using the former to achieve the latter. I became a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) at the Nutritional Therapy Association (a school I recommend highly if you’re considering a career in nutrition) and then drew inspiration from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition where I learned from some of the top minds in the field (personal favorites were Sally Fallon of the Weston A Price Foundation, Dr. Mark Hyman, and Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way). Since then, I’ve become a Certified Healing Foods Specialist and also studied with the incredible Mark David at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

I now work with clients all over North America and Europe, helping them resolve health issues, learn how to eat for their body to thrive, and heal their relationship with food. It’s juicy stuff, and so rewarding.

In June 2011 my first book, Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You, was released with New Harbinger Publications, and I’m currently working on its follow-up, The Eat Naked Cookbook, with the amazing Chef James Barry, due out in May 2012. I blog here as well as guest author on several other health-related blogs such as Living Better at 50 and The Natural Food List.

I still do a little business coaching here and there, but mostly focus these talents on supporting my NTP peers in a Business Class for NTPs that I lead twice annually.

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Chef James Barry

A recent contributor to the Eat Naked team is Chef James Barry, personal chef and owner of the Los Angeles based healthy (naked!) meal delivery company Wholesome2go. Chef James co-authored the recipe section of Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier Youand supports Margaret and her clients with creative recipes, menu planning tips, and all sorts of great strategies to make eating naked fun and seriously delicious.

Chef James learned to scramble an egg at the ripe age of four and has been passionate about cooking ever since. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute of Health and Culinary Arts in New York, James has served as a private chef to celebrities, helping them reach their optimum health. His healthy and tasty style of cooking has had such positive response that he started Wholesome2go, a healthy high-quality food delivery company currently serving the Los Angeles area. Whether traveling cross-country as the vegan/vegetarian chef on the Van’s Warped tour or in Europe with his celebrity clients, James is constantly making efforts towards assisting those that want to live healthier lifestyles.

If you’re lucky enough to live in the LA area, you can eat naked easily with Wholesome2go‘s meal delivery service. Also, James and Margaret are joining forces to develop a new line of healing foods we’re calling “Better than Naked” in the new year. Stay tuned!