Who Is Meg Jordan?

Get Ready For Fitness Like You've Never Seen It

Meg Jordan , PhD, RN, is a woman who has motivated millions to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Author, speaker, international health journalist, registered nurse and a clinical medical anthropologist, Meg is one of the most recognized names in health and wellness reporting.

Her favorite pursuit is being the Global Medicine Hunter® for HALO syndicated health radio with her co-host Jesse Dylan. Meg searches the globe for healing remedies , traveling to remote and exotic places, confirming the best of traditional practices with modern science. As president of Health & Lifestyle, Inc, a health research and communications firm, she is a sought-after media commentator and seminar presenter for health, fitness, holistic practices, and cultural trends.

As Director of Integrative Practice of the Health Medicine Institute in northern California, she specializes in behavioral medicine interventions. Her syndicated columns, television reports, and special media projects cover health, wellness, integrative medicine, indigenous healing traditions and cultural trends.

Her doctoral research focused on the collaborative attempts among practitioners to combine medical modalities within integrative settings. She was a core faculty member of a new media venture with Deepak Chopra entitled MyPotential, and was a founding correspondent on iVillage, covering Global Health for women. Her syndicated columns on health and wellness are distributed to over 17 major newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the most respected newspaper in India, THE HINDU. She is a former health reporter for FOX-TV, has been a regular media commentator for CNN and several national shows, and author of five books.

Her latest, THE FITNESS INSTINCT (Rodale Reach 1999) was acclaimed as "the most original thinking in fitness in 20 years."

Founder of AFAA's American Fitness Magazine, she has also authored college texts including Fitness: Theory & Practice, The Aerobic Exercise Workbook, Aerobic Dance Injuries , How the New Food Labels Can Save Your Life (Wiese/NutriBooks), and PlyoPlay with Dr. Don Chu. She has authored over 800 medical and fitness articles for the dozens of publications and for several medical media programs.

She currently serves as an advisory board member for Lifewaves International, where she is a central player in a public education campaign about the associated health benefits of its revolutionary fitness program.

A cardiac specialist R.N., she supervised cardiac rehabilitation units and opened the nation's first hospital-based wellness center in 1981 at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Los Angeles.

She serves on numerous advisory boards and professional societies, including the Society for Medical Anthropology, American Holistic Nurses Association, National Wellness Association, California Association of Naturopathic Physicians, National Fitness Leaders Association, the California Institute of Integral Studies, Exercise Malpractice Reporter, Health Medicine Forum, and ValleyCare Health System, multi-hospital system in the Bay Area (Northern California).

Meg is winner of the coveted Healthy American Fitness Leader award in 1991, a founding member of the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and creator of over 22 platinum-selling videos on health and fitness. A featured presenter with the National Wellness Speakers Bureau, Meg consistently receives the highest marks for seminar presentations and keynotes with American Heart Association, Lucent Technologies, California Department of Health, and many more organizations.

She lives up and down the west coast of North America with her husband Mike Wilcox and their three grown children, and enjoys a wide range of activities including racing sailboats, hiking in redwood forests, hosting salons and drumming circles, and adventure travel.

Dr. Meg A. Jordan, PhD, RN
Global Medicine Hunter
Global Health Enterprises, Inc.
West Vancouver, BC

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