Who Is Will Clower?

Website:  www.willclower.com

Will Clower, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in Neuroscience by recording hundreds of brain cells (one at a time) to understand how the nervous system controls movements. He continued his studies at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon, France, where he accumulated enlightening stories and interviews from neighbors, friends, chefs, and doctors about the French cultural rules of diet.

In The Fat Fallacy: Applying the French Diet to the American Lifestyle, Clower offers common sense cultural habits as a solution to the severe problems Americans have with their weight and health. While we fret with new plans, gimmicks, drugs, surgeries, and miracle food additives, an entire country of slim and healthy people eat rich sumptuous foods each day. If we simply use the French diet as a model, we will achieve their thin and healthy results. Even better, you end up eat eating sumptuous foods, just like them.

As a neuroscience historian, Clower has done extensive work searching behind the scenes to explore how science changes its mind about what it believes. Now looking into nutrition, he sees a failing fat free paradigm of conflicting data and precious little consensus about dietary advice. Until science finally settles on a new paradigm, we need to step back, see what successful cultures do … and then just do that.

Dr. Clower enjoys presenting the nutritional, social, and political science of the French and American dietary attitudes in a way that everyone can understand. Since the release of his book in September 2001, he has been a constant presence in radio, television, and print media across the country.

When not traveling, speaking, and overseeing The PATH, Clower enjoys cooking for his wife, daughter, and any guests that pop by. Hobbies include reading and karate, for which he will be testing for his Black Belt in October 2004.

Dr. Will Clower's Speaking Topics

It's not about just what you eat, but how you eat.

All of Dr. Clower's presentations reveal hilarious and insightful back-to-basics, with a no-deprivation approach to getting thin and staying healthy for life. His unique perspective as a neuroscientist offers the audience tools to control the quantity and quality of the foods their body craves while enjoying the "real foods" that make life so enjoyable. Will's humorous, tailored, interactive, and informative style leaves your audience empowered to love their food again!

• Solve The French Paradox
  About those French people. They're thin, they're healthy, they break every one of our dietary rules, and they eat the creams, cheeses, butters, croissants, and wines we all wish we could have. Learn all about these people, what they are doing right, and why it works. Get an up close and personal explanation of The French Paradox.
   
• What to Eat
  Based on his mantra: "If It Ain't Food, Don't Eat It!" Dr. Clower explains the first lesson we need to learn about being healthy for life. Eat Food. It sounds so simple, but a quick trip to the grocery store reveals the problem: we are not eating real foods at all. With style and clarity, your audience will re-learn the most basic of all lessons that we have forgotten: what to eat. The French understand what to eat intuitively, based on their culture. Now your audience can get that cultural knowledge, they can make use of the eating habits that have made the French cuisine the envy of the world.
   
• How to Eat
  Dr. Clower brings home from France a message of hope and inspiration to your audience. You can OWN your own cravings; reprogram your body to control portion distortion, to conquer chronic consumption, and beat between-meal snacking forever. They do this by learning the habits of healthy eating that turn down your body's "Appetite Thermometer." All over the country, Dr. Clower gives audiences the tools to eliminate those 3:00 hunger pains and ending constant noshing throughout the day by altering your hunger dynamic. This neuroscientist shows your audience how to turn down the knob in their brains that regulates their hunger. They will walk away understanding how to eat ALL THEY WANT, but they will just want less.

The following topics can be added on to the main keynotes above or stand on their own. Each of Dr. Clower's keynote presentations are customized to the needs and wants of the client.

• Chocolate Eating Lessons
  While indulging on the worlds best chocolate, or for audiences of 50 or less, partaking in a truffle cooking lesson, Dr. Clower explains why Chocolate is not just wonderful but healthy as well. Audiences love the nutrition science and common sense wisdom that turns this vice into a daily virtue of good health and low weight.
   
• The Fit Fallacy
  When you look at other cultures they aren't busting their butts on the treadmill- in fact they are not exercising! Learn why we don't need to be ballistic to have an active healthy lifestyle.
   
• The Emotional Motion
  There are reasons why when you are stressed you eat. Find out ways to unwind through breathing and meditation techniques so you don't have to turn stress into over consumption.

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