Marie Oser is a best-selling author, vegan lifestyle expert and environmental advocate with a focus on nutrition and its role in disease prevention. Oser specializes in creating original gourmet recipes with a solid nutritional bottom line. Marie is a features writer and Managing Editor at ecomii a leading environmental site attracting more than 1.5 unique visitors per month. At The Food & Health Alternative (F&HA) Oser and her team of experts report on creative natural solutions for issues affecting our health and wellbeing. Marie is president of VegTV, a production company producing content for TV and new media and has streamed hundreds of healthy lifestyle videos to up to a thousand sites globally for more than a decade. Marie has appeared on CNN, CNN Headline News, ABC, National Public Radio, QVC, WUSA, WNBC, KCAL, KOVR, Home & Garden Television (HGTV), FINE LIVING, TECH TV and Discovery Channel. Vegetarian since 1971; Vegan since 1990, Marie left a career in TV advertising to pursue her interest in food, health, nutrition and the environment. Marie is a gourmet cook and organic gardener living in southern California, writing her 5th book and hiking every day with Travis, her Yellow Lab companion.