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Seminars & Speakers:
11:00am-11:45am – Paul Plakas, Fitness Expert, X-Weighted
12:00pm-12:45pm – Dr. Sean Wharton, Director, Wharton Medical Clinic
1:00pm-1:45pm – Antoine & Alexandra, Biggest Loser Season 8 Contestants
2:00pm-2:45pm – Dr. Chris Cobourn, Medical Director and Surgeon, Surgical Weight Loss Centre
3:00pm-3:45pm – Susan Walker, Integrative Medical Director, U Weight Loss Clinics
4:00pm-4:45pm – Tamara Blum, Owner, Curves Franchise
5:00pm-5:45pm – Weight Wise Motivational Forum, Real People, Real Stories!
Seminar Room A
12:00pm-12:45pm – Mario Cortis, CEO, Canadian Gastric Ballooning Inc (CGBI) – home of the Jump6™ Weight Loss Program Centre
1:00pm-1:45pm – Dr. Chris Cobourn, Medical Director and Surgeon, Surgical Weight Loss Centre
2:00pm-2:45pm – Prof. Sheldon M. Joseph, Life Sciences Education, Rejuven8 Laboratories, Inc.
3:00pm-3:45pm – Kyle Byron, Nutritionist, Bang Fitness
4:00pm-4:45pm – Weight Wise Motivational Forum, Real People, Real Stories!
Seminar Room B
12:00pm-12:45pm – Charles Cicciarella, Weight-Loss Inspirational Speaker and Author, Fat Onion Inc.
1:00pm-1:45pm – Geoff Girvitz, ACSM PT and Director, Bang Fitness
2:00pm-2:45pm – Jeff Ruby, Founder and CEO / LLB,MBA, Newtopia
3:00pm-3:45pm – DORIT, Certified Living Foods Chef/Author, Serenity Spaces and Serenity Foods
Main Stage Presentations & Workouts:
12:00pm-12:30pm – Curves Toronto, How Curves Helps with Your Curves
12:30pm-1:00pm – Ardyss International, Body Magic Fashion Show
2:00pm-2:30pm – My Zumba Fitness, Dance Away Your Stress & Inches!
3:00pm-3:30pm – Home Fit, Boot Camp Class
11:00am-12:00pm and 12:00pm-1:00pm – Alexandra & Antoine, Last Chance Workout
1:00pm-1:30pm – My Zumba Fitness, Dance Away Your Stress & Inches!
1:30pm-2:00pm – Ardyss International, Body Magic Fashion Show
2:00pm-2:30pm – Serenity Spaces, Eating for Healing and Explosive Health Raw Food Demo
Seminars and Speakers
Saturday, October 2, 2010
11:00 am
Paul Plakas
Fitness Expert
X-Weighted
For five seasons, Paul Plakas has been assessing and analyzing the fitness of participants on X-Weighted. Plakas has been a personal trainer for 18 years, working with all levels of fitness, from the totally sedentary to the professional athlete. Plakas is co-founder of Custom Fit, an Edmonton based team of fitness professionals, and creator of The i3 Workout exercise video.
Plakas earned his degree in physical fitness from the University of Alberta, and is certified as both a Health and Fitness Instructor and a Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Plakas says that watching participants on X-Weighted achieve their own goals gives him great personal satisfaction. “When somebody is a prisoner in their own body and never had a chance to experience what life has to offer them, being lighter and fitter opens them up to things they never thought they could do before,” he says. BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW! CLICK HERE!
12:00 pm
Session Title: Medical Treatments for Increased Weight at the Wharton Medical Clinic
Dr. Sean Wharton
M.D., FRCPC, PharmD,
Director of Wharton Medical Clinic
Dr. Wharton has his doctorate in both Pharmacy and Medicine, and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Canadian Obesity Network, the Canadian Association of Bariatric Surgeons and Physicians, and the American Society of Bariatric Physicians.
Dr. Wharton has treated thousands of obese patients and was one of the main physicians to spearhead the Hamilton General Hospital Bariatric Clinic, along with Dr. Sharma. Dr. Wharton research includes The Inadequacy of Diagnostic Equipment for Bariatric Patients; Barriers to the Treatment of Obesity, and Epicardial Fat in Bariatric Patients before and after a Low Calorie Diet Program.
Dr. Wharton has a vision to educate all patients and their families regarding the causes and treatment of increased weight. Patients should be part of the solution to their own medical condition and can be advocates to change the status of obesity from a social condition to a chronic medical condition that requires societal and governmental recognition and assistance.
1:00 pm
Session Title: D.R.E.A.M: Discovering Real Expectations About Me
Antoine Dove & Alexandra White
Season 8 Biggest Loser Contestants
Alexandra White and Antoine Dove, both former contestants on the 8th season of the hit reality show “The Biggest Loser” have accomplished much more than losing weight; they have regained their life, fell in love, and discovered a new outlook on a way of living healthy. In less than 7 months, Alexandra lost 91 pounds and Antoine lost 152 pounds. Together they have learned that balance is the key to weight management and without it they could not have succeed as they did. Alexandra and Antoine demonstrated first hand that with ambition, determination, and a goal in mind weight loss is obtainable. Alexandra and Antoine now travel all over the US to share their story and to inspire people to take that first step towards their weight loss success. BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW! CLICK HERE!
2:00 pm
Session Title: Innovative Solutions for Permanent Weight loss – Lap-Band and Gastric Balloon
Dr. Chris Cobourn MD, FRCS(C)
Medical Director and Surgeon
Surgical Weight Loss Centre
A fellowship-trained General Surgeon, Dr. Cobourn has received extensive training in the use and placement of the Lap-Band and the Gastric Balloon. In 1991, he introduced laparoscopic surgery to the Mississauga area, and since then has been focusing his time and practice on advanced laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Cobourn has expertise in advanced laparoscopic procedures that include gallbladder removal, hernia repair, advanced bowel surgery, spleen removal and Lap-Band surgery. From 1995 – 2005 Dr. Cobourn was the Chief of Surgery at Trillium Health Centre where he still maintains full hospital privileges. Dr. Cobourn has been committed to learning and performing new surgical procedures throughout his career and attends many conferences and courses each year to maintain and enhance his surgical expertise.
3:00 pm
Session Title: “Obesogens”: Are They the Reason for your Weight Gain?
Susan Walker, ND
Integrative Medical Director
U Weight Loss Clinics
It’s commonly accepted that weight gain and obesity are mainly the result of eating too many calories and not burning enough. While overeating sets the stage for increased weight, recent research shows that it is chemical compounds called obesogens that greatly contribute to excess weight, disrupting the delicate balance of the body’s hormonal system, metabolism, appetite and fat storage. In this informative, cutting-edge presentation you’ll learn about these compounds, how they might be contributing to your excess weight and poor health, and a NEW APPROACH to weight loss to help you lose weight and keep it off.
4:00 pm
Session Title: Rev Your Metabolism and Enjoy Permanent Weight Loss with the Curves Weight Management Program
Tamara Blum
Owner
Curves Toronto
Tamara is no stranger to weight loss issues and struggled for years to lose and maintain her weight. She has tried just about every weight loss gimmick out there! However since discovering strength training and healthy eating at Curves she is currently in the best shape of her life! Tamara was so impressed by how Curves changed her life that she purchased her very own Club in Toronto. Tamara is dedicated to helping women achieve their fitness and weight loss goals and has helped 100’s of women finally find their healthy weight.
5:00 pm
Weight Wise Motivational Forum
Real People, Real Stories!
The Weight Wise Motivational Forum will bring all kinds of people together to share their stories on weight management. Selected people will be sharing their experiences with thousands of people who need practical advice and motivation in a safe and welcoming environment.
Featuring X-Weighted contestant Kristi. Total weight loss: 64 pounds
“It feels like everything in my life changed from that moment when I got accepted onto the show. Everything that happened from that time on has been so positive, it just feels like I have got everything that I have ever wanted,” says Kristi, “I now know that if I work hard at it, anything is attainable. There is nothing I can’t do.”
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Seminar Room A
12:00 pm
Session Title: Balloon Up to Slim down!
Mario Cortis
CEO
Canadian Gastric Ballooning Inc (CGBI) – home of the Jump6™ Weight Loss Program
Jump6™ is not a diet, it is not a pill, and it is not surgery.
The Jump6 Program helps patients to lose weight and keep it off. Jump6 features the Orbera™Jump6 Weight Loss Management System from Allergan and a robust program of medically supervised personal nutritional and fitness planning. Put a balloon in, feel full and not hungry. Learn to eat without hunger as the driving force. 6 months later, take the balloon out. Average weight loss is approx 40lbs.
1:00 pm
Session Title: Innovative Solutions for Permanent Weight loss – Lap-Band and Gastric Balloon
Dr. Chris Cobourn MD, FRCS(C)
Medical Director and Surgeon
Surgical Weight Loss Centre
A fellowship-trained General Surgeon, Dr. Cobourn has received extensive training in the use and placement of the Lap-Band and the Gastric Balloon. In 1991, he introduced laparoscopic surgery to the Mississauga area, and since then has been focusing his time and practice on advanced laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Cobourn has expertise in advanced laparoscopic procedures that include gallbladder removal, hernia repair, advanced bowel surgery, spleen removal and Lap-Band surgery. From 1995 – 2005 Dr. Cobourn was the Chief of Surgery at Trillium Health Centre where he still maintains full hospital privileges. Dr. Cobourn has been committed to learning and performing new surgical procedures throughout his career and attends many conferences and courses each year to maintain and enhance his surgical expertise
2:00 pm
Session Title: Antioxidants: Nature’s Fountain of Youth
Prof. Sheldon M. Joseph Hons. B.S., Ph.D.
Life Sciences Education
Rejuven8 Laboratories, Inc.
Sheldon – a uniquely effective life sciences educator and inventor – is happily pursuing his dual passions for health ‘edutainment’ and green innovation. After winning numerous academic accolades at Morehouse College, Lancaster University, Merck, CWRU-Cleveland Clinic (Ph.D., cell physiology), and Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Centre of Excellence (Post-doc, cancer genetics), he now teaches in the GTA while pursuing his global entrepreneurial interests. Sheldon creates informative, interactive, down-to-earth UT-SCS health courses open to all adults. Buzz is growing about his Fall 2010 midday courses How Your Brain Works and Understanding the Immune System.
3:00 pm
Session Title: Nutrition 101
Kyle Byron
Nutritionist
Bang Fitness
We are pleased to present Kyle Byron, weight loss and sports nutrition expert. Kyle has helped thousands of people improve their health and reach their goals. Aside for personal consulting he has presented to organizations such as Bank of Montreal, Petro Canada, and the Toronto International Film Festival. His clients include professional athletes and everyday people. Kyle’s motto is, “Expertise and support make results easy,” because knowledge is usually the first limiting factor in a person’s success. The next is a lack of a coach. Take care of those two things, and a lot can happen!
4:00 pm
Weight Wise Motivational Forum
Real People, Real Stories!
The Weight Wise Motivational Forum will bring all kinds of people together to share their stories on weight management. Selected people will be sharing their experiences with thousands of people who need practical advice and motivation in a safe and welcoming environment.
Seminar Room B
12:00 pm
Session Title: Life is a FAT ONION: My 8 Rules to Losing Weight and Gaining Life
Charles Cicciarella, Weight-Loss Inspirational Speaker and Author, Fat Onion Inc.
Life is a FAT ONION is an extraordinary story of an ordinary dude. On any day, you can find that dude, Charles Cicciarella, jogging the streets, sweating up a storm at the gym or shopping at the local farmers’ market. This picture is different from how he lived less than seven years ago.
He was born big, lived big, yet hoped that he wouldn’t die big. Tipping the scales at 385 pounds, he wasn’t happy. In his book, Charles tells the inspiring story of how he stopped the madness, shedding pounds like the skins of an onion, until he had lost 155 pounds.
Charles has appeared on Dr. Phil, LA Ink and has had national and international media coverage.
1:00 pm
Session Title: Why Conventional Approaches to Fat-Loss Don’t Work
Geoff Girvitz, ACSM PT and Director, Bang Fitness
Geoff is the director of Bang Fitness in downtown Toronto. Bang Fitness offers complete solutions for body composition and athletic performance. Their comprehensive membership includes individualized programming, semi-private training, nutritional counseling and education.
The training systems used by Geoff and the Bang Fitness team have proven themselves effective again and again. Geoff is excited to share their training concepts with you.
2:00 pm
Session Title: The Need for Personalized Solutions for Weight Loss and Healthy Living: One Size Does Not Fit All.
Jeff Ruby, Founder and CEO / LLB,MBA, Newtopia
Jeff Ruby is a health and prevention innovator with extensive background working with some of the world’s leading institutions and experts on empowering people to improve their health. Prior to founding Newtopia, Jeff was Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Cleveland Clinic Canada – a collaboration between Cleveland Clinic and Canyon Ranch – which is Canada’s leading destination for preventive health and lifestyle management. Before that, he served as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Life Screening Centres with a focus on cancer screening and prevention. Jeff was also a Co-Founder and Director of Operations of Genetic Diagnostics Inc., a biotechnology company commercializing a new genetic diagnostic testing platform. Jeff has joint LLB/MBA degrees from Toronto.
3:00 pm
Session Title: Eating for Healing & Explosive Health!
DORIT, Certified Living Foods Chef/Author, Serenity Spaces and Serenity Foods
Trained by Dr Deepak Chopra and Dr David Simon as a Lifestyle & Lifeskills Coach, as well as certified as a chef by the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in California, Dorit is the author of the Books, Celebrating Our Raw Nature 1 & 2.
She has helped hundreds transform their relationship with food in a very deep and lasting way through her private practice in West Hollywood, California and by teaching workshops throughout North America.
Main Stage Presentations & Workouts
Saturday, October 2, 2010
12:00pm
“How Curves Helps with Your Curves”
Curves Toronto
Come and find out how 30 minutes 3x/week can change your life forever. Curves is a facility specially designed for women that is fun, fast and safe. Tamara, a Curves club owner in Toronto, will be discussing what makes Curves such a special place for millions of women worldwide while also discussing her own experiences with weight loss and healthy eating. Of course, no discussion about Curves would be complete without a demo to show you exactly what we are talking about! Come and see for yourself what a fantastic workout 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise coupled with weight resistance training truly is.
12:30pm
Body Magic Fashion Show
Ardyss International
Drop two to three sizes in under 10 minutes with NO DIETS, NO DRUGS, NO EXERCISE and NO SURGERY! Come watch the season’s rich fashions and see how we do it.
Every size frame and shape has areas which can be sculpted by moving deposited fat into desired locations. Ardyss has been transforming figures for over 20 years but is new to Canada. Body Magic and the secret to instant inch loss is finally here.
We will show you how this product will assist you in dropping inches just by wearing the garment! After the show come visit us at our booth so you can try on a Body Magic and see the transformation on yourself.
2:00pm
Dance Away Your Stress & Inches!
My Zumba Fitness
Zumba Fitness eliminates the ‘work’ from ‘working out’ by combining amazing, irresistible Latin and international music with dynamic, yet simple exercise moves. Fun and music are the two special motivational ingredients. The routines capture the passion of the music, utilizing the natural beat, tempo, and music transitions. Even those with two left feet are successful in a Zumba Fitness class! You will be constantly engaged and entertained with the variety of rhythms including salsa, merengue, samba, belly dancing, cumbia, reggaeton, and more!
3:00pm
Boot Camp Class
Home Fit
Come and join our Free Boot Camp class! Time will fly as you push through a series of exercises that will help lift your butt, tighten your abs and tone your muscles. The energy will be high. Don’t miss out on this opportunity that is happening only once at the Health Wise Expo!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
11:00am-12:00pm & 12:00pm-1:00 pm
Last Chance Work-out – 2 Sessions
Equipment Provided by Fitness Source
Antoine Dove & Alexandra White
Season 8 Biggest Loser Contestants
Alexandra White and Antoine Dove, both former contestants on the 8th season of the hit reality show “The Biggest Loser” have accomplished much more than losing weight; they have regained their life, fell in love, and discovered a new outlook on a way of living healthy. In less than 7 months, Alexandra lost 91 pounds and Antoine lost 152 pounds. Together they have learned that balance is the key to weight management and without it they could not have succeed as they did. Alexandra and Antoine demonstrated first hand that with ambition, determination, and a goal in mind weight loss is obtainable. Alexandra and Antoine now travel all over the US to share their story and to inspire people to take that first step towards their weight loss success. BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW! CLICK HERE!
1:00pm
Dance Away Your Stress & Inches!
My Zumba Fitness
Zumba Fitness eliminates the ‘work’ from ‘working out’ by combining amazing, irresistible Latin and international music with dynamic, yet simple exercise moves. Fun and music are the two special motivational ingredients. The routines capture the passion of the music, utilizing the natural beat, tempo, and music transitions. Even those with two left feet are successful in a Zumba Fitness class! You will be constantly engaged and entertained with the variety of rhythms including salsa, merengue, samba, belly dancing, cumbia, reggaeton, and more!
1:30pm
Body Magic Fashion Show
Ardyss International
Drop two to three sizes in under 10 minutes with NO DIETS, NO DRUGS, NO EXERCISE and NO SURGERY! Come watch the season’s rich fashions and see how we do it.
Every size frame and shape has areas which can be sculpted by moving deposited fat into desired locations. Ardyss has been transforming figures for over 20 years but is new to Canada. Body Magic and the secret to instant inch loss is finally here.
We will show you how this product will assist you in dropping inches just by wearing the garment! After the show come visit us at our booth so you can try on a Body Magic and see the transformation on yourself.
2:00pm
Eating for Healing and Explosive Health Raw Food Demo
Serenity Spaces
At this 20 minutes live demonstration, participants will learn firsthand, how to make alternatives to dairy milk, milk shakes and smoothies using slimming, extremely delicious and highly nutritious plant based alternatives.
