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"Leslie Kenton is one expert who can genuinely be described as both pioneering and visionary"
TIME OUT, LONDON
Award winning writer, nutritionist, broadcaster, lecturer, shamanic teacher, and social activist, Leslie Kenton is well known for her work in television and journalism throughout the English-speaking world. A living example of vitality, she is described as 'the most original voice in health and beauty' and 'the guru of health and fitness'. She is well known for her no-nonsense approach and highly respected for her in-depth reporting.
She has written over thirty-five best-selling books on health including The New Raw Energy, 10 Day Clean-Up Plan, The New Joy of Beauty, and Passage To Power - Natural Menopause Revolution - which made major shifts in the way doctors and women are approaching the treatment of PMS, osteoporosis and menopausal problems. The X Factor Diet, entered the bestseller list the first week.
Recent books include Healing Herbs, Age Power, Skin Revolution, and Powerhouse Diet. Her books are regularly translated into foreign languages.The latest book, Love Affair - a memoir, published by Vermilion appeared in February 2010. Her next book, Cura Romana, is to be published by Bantam in January 2011.
Leslie was Health and Beauty Editor of Harpers & Queen for 14 years. Her network television programs include Raw Energy, a cookery series and Ageless Ageing, both of which she conceived, wrote and presented herself. She has made short films on health and spiritual topics for the BBC. A recent TV documentary To Age or Not To Age, screened in the Southern Hemisphere, made television history when, in only 5 weeks, the diet and exercise protocol she designed reversed parameters of aging in people between 30 and 60 - in medically measurable ways.
Leslie conceived and created the worldwide ORIGINS product range for cosmetic giant Estee Lauder and other health-care and beauty product ranges in Europe and Japan. In the UK she formed her own company to import and promote the internal regenerative skin care product, Imedeen - taking sales from zero to £2.3 million in less than 24 months. She has done consultancy and development for corporations including Guinness and Boots in the UK, Unilever in the USA and Sunstar in Japan.
Trained in Chinese medicine, nutrition, and bioenergetics, Leslie is a member of AAMET and NTCB in the United States and a certified homeo-theraputics consultant. In the UK, her contribution to natural health was honored by her being asked to deliver the McCarrison Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine. She was first Chairperson of the Natural Medicine Society in the UK.
Leslie lectures and teaches throughout the world viewing the techniques and information she shares as tools for helping each of us realize our own potentials - for energy, health, expanded consciousness, and personal freedom. She believes the more we come to live from our own essential being, the greater are the gifts we bring to friends and families, our community, and the planet itself.
A former consultant to European Parliament for the Green Party, Leslie has created teaching modules for Britain's Open University. She was has received 'Technical Writer of the Year' and several other awards for her work.
Leslie divides her time between homes in Primrose Hill, London and South Island of New Zealand. Working with her youngest son, Aaron, 29, she recently created Leslie Kenton's Cura Romana® - a method of permanent weight loss which transforms body mind and spirit. Her websites include www.lesliekenton.com and www.curaromana.com and www.loveaffair-the book.com.
MEDIA QUOTES ABOUT LESLIE KENTON
"Leslie Kenton is the Dalai Lama of the beauty business...her creed goes like this, 'If you're doing what's right for you, you'll continuously unfold and become more healthy and more beautiful. It's a process not a state."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A pioneering authority on alternative health and beauty, Leslie Kenton is one of life's natural leaders."
YOU MAGAZINE LONDON
"If there is one health expert who can genuinely be described as pioneering and visionary, it's Leslie Kenton."
TIME OUT LONDON
"Anything she promises, she fulfils. She does it, lives it and writes it"
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT DUBLIN
"In her chosen field - a super-fertilized literary pasture on healthy eating, rejuvenation and exercise - Ms Kenton reigns supreme"
THE TIMES LONDON
"She's the source that everyone reads and quotes, a one-woman Wall Street of well being."
"One expects a certain vivid attractiveness from the world's leading expert on health and beauty, but Kenton's inner glow and luminosity are nothing less than stunning."
JAPAN TIMES TOKYO
"She's blond, beautiful and sexy."
THE SUN LONDON
"In the glitzy, glamour world of fashion and health, Leslie Kenton is like a breath of fresh air."
SYDNEY STAR OBSERVER
"She's The High Priestess of New Age Health and Beauty"
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY LONDON
"Leslie is the guru of ageless aging."
THE TIMES LONDON
"Leslie Kenton is remarkably persuasive. Not only is her writing packed with scientific andmedical references...she knows what she's talking about."
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY LONDON
"She's a genuine free spirit...Kenton's message is as non-confronting as her flowing blond hair and cornflower blue eyes."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"Long before the rest of the world began to take an open-minded look at different cultures and alternative therapies, Leslie Kenton was exploring philosophies which would challenge and change the way we eat, think and behave."
FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON
"Britain's leading health and beauty expert...Leslie is an advertisement for her own fitness philosophy"
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY LONDON
"First she was a prophet crying in the wilderness about all things healthy and organic. Then she was acclaimed as a pioneer. Now she's a revolutionary urging women to build a bridge between bodies and souls. And aways she has star quality."
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT DUBLIN
"Leslie is the enduring high priestess of health and beauty."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
