Healthful Habits focuses on the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle through the power of a plant based, organic diet.
Healthful Habits, draws from 30 years of success with three well-known Chicago based vegan restaurants and 3 partners with a passion for health and wellness.
Schooled by his father, Master Chef David Choi, and raised in a vegan family, Chef David Choi Jr, brings a fresh perspective to the already successful business. Chef David's ability to broaden the offerings of their plant based Korean diet by adding a variety of ethnic tastes such as Mexican, Italian, and Middle Eastern has allowed us to reach and help more people than ever before. Chef David has nine years of experience serving the residents of The Greater Chicago-land area. He earned his degree in Accounting at the University of Illinois and was the head Restaurant chef at Amitabul, the family’s well-known establishment in the city.
Partner Gloria Athanis, a life-long health enthusiast and athlete, attributes her healthy being and that of her teenage son, to all she has learned from Master Chefs Dave & HC Choi. Gloria, a 30 year media and marketing executive, has led a series of healthy life style programs that include seminars and demos with Master Vegan Chefs Dave and David Choi Jr and New York Times best selling author Doctor T. Colin Campbell (THE CHINA STUDY). Gloria is passionate about teaching people the benefits of a healthy plant based diet and sharing all she knows about the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle. Gloria was part of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s staff when Dr. Oz’s Health Festival came live to Chicago for the first time.
For over 20 years, partner Jeff Adeszko operated and grew a business that primarily served “Big Pharma.” This path led Jeff to question traditional thinking about health and wellness. After Jeff successfully exited the industry, he found himself searching for ways to advance a vision of wellness that is holistic and preventive. This vision led him to co-Phyter along with Gloria and Chef David. Jeff also owns The Energy Bar, a holistic wellness center in Naperville Illinois, offering solutions to help prevent illness, optimize wellness and increase energy.
Healthful Habits was formed from commitment to educating people on a healthier way of life through plant-based foods and other healthy lifestyle choices, and bringing nutrition and compassion to those in need. They are happy spreading our plant-based gospel, but they wanted a much bigger platform. So Healthful Habits decided to create a food that embodies the plant based lifestyle...Phyter Food!
Healthful Habits spent the past 3 years, developing and executing unique educational cooking programs, demos, and team building events for large and small groups. They work with major Fortune 500 companies as well as individuals. Whether it is helping people who are suffering from a variety of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, obesity and diabetes or serving clients that have chosen to embrace a healthier lifestyle by changing bad eating habits and to prevent minor health issues from becoming more serious. Their client base spans the United States, from Hawaii to New York.
Clients include major health care companies, professional athletes, Hollywood personalities and nationally known politicians and corporate executives as well as housewives, working moms/dads and entire families. What matters most to Healthful Habits and its partners is sharing their knowledge about feeding each person or body in a healthful way so we can live a happy and balanced life.
Recent Healthful Habits seminars featured a lecture by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of the New York Times best selling book, the CHINA STUDY.
To share our knowledge and passion about living a healthy lifestyle through our education based programs and our amazing plant based foods. And to be socially responsible by sharing this knowledge and our food with those in need.
Educational, team-building, in-home or corporate cooking programs. Guests will learn how to cook and enjoy a variety of delicious, savory plant based dishes. Our programs are engaging, interactive and informative. Now proud to produce plant based delicious Phyter Food! Visit us at www.phyterfood.com
