RICKI HELLER is an author, blogger and instructor who has worked with food—running a catering business, teaching cooking classes and writing cookbooks—for over twenty years. Her blog was nominated for SHAPE magazine’s Best Healthy Eating Blog award in 2011 and named one of Saveur.com’s Sites We Love in 2009. Her articles and recipes have appeared in Clean Eating, Living Without, Canadian Living, The Gazette (Montreal), The Globe and Mail, Tonic Toronto and Zoomer.com, among others. An associate editor of the new Simply Gluten-Free magazine (vegan cuisine section), Ricki is also a regular contributor to TheBalancedPlatter.com and Fitalicious.com. She shares recipes on her website, www.rickiheller.com, for sugar-free, gluten-free, allergy-friendly whole foods for an anti-candida lifestyle.

ANDREA NAKAYAMA, C.N.C., C.N.E., C.H.H.C., is a functional nutritionist, a health writer, an educator and the founder of Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab.