CAROLYN O'NEIL - REGISTERED DIETICIAN
October is National Vegetarian Month and with millions of Americans choosing to eat a meatless meal at least once a week, vegetarian diets raise lots of questions. Can you get enough protein without meat? What about essential nutrients, can you get those without meat? Isn’t it more expensive? Carolyn debunks popular myths about a vegetarian diet. Registered dietitian Carolyn O’Neil, the television personality and best-selling author of The Dish on Eating Healthy and Being Fabulous! is a driving force behind a national movement toward hip and healthy living and away from crazy crash dieting. After all, as O’Neil professes, “the more you know, the more you can eat.” An expert on general nutrition and weight control, she is an award winning journalist leading CNN’s coverage of food, nutrition and cuisine for nearly 20 years. O’Neil’s food prowess is showcased in her weekly Healthy Eating column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In addition, she is a nutrition expert for WebMD and appears as The Lady of the Refrigerator on Alton Brown’s Good Eats on the Food Network.
Sylvia Yacoub - NBC’s "THE VOICE"
The Voice" with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete in the blockbuster vocal competition show's second season. Celebrity musician coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton return along with Carson Daly as host and Christina Milian as Social Media Correspondent.
Bobbie Greenfield - Beverly Hills Brownie
After a successful career as a marketing executive and entrepreneur, founder Bobbie Greenfield found herself facing the severe economic challenges that plagued Corporate America in the depths of the recent recession. Looking for a way to de-stress and re-energize, she turned more and more to her favorite pastime – baking from old family recipes and experimenting to create her own unique baked goods. In 2009, after perfecting her own signature brownie recipe, Bobbie decided to transition her at-home hobby of baking brownies into a full force commercial venture.
First launching the Beverly Hills Brownie Company online, Bobbie found herself living the American Dream by crafting a truly American dessert using primarily U.S.-sourced ingredients and growing a successful business. With the opening of the Beverly Hills Brownie Company flagship boutique bakery, Bobbie’s vision is to grant the sugar-craving public access to the highest-quality confections and to take home their very own piece of the famed landmark town.
Sylvia Yacoub - NBC’s "THE VOICE"