Michael A. Klaper (July 19, 1947) is an

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physician,

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health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of

medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.

Early life and education

Klaper was born July 19, 1947 to Chicago South Side dentist, David T. Klaper, DDS, and Jean T. Klaper (formerly of Boca Raton, Florida). Klaper had an older brother, Robert D. Klaper, who died in 1992 at the age of 49. By his own report, Klaper grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. In 1972, Klaper graduated from the

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and served his medical internship in Canada at

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with the

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. He also studied obstetrics at the

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. His three books were authored during his time with Gentle World in

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. In 1987 Klaper appeared on the game show ''

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'' and won $11,000.

Career

After graduating from medical school Klaper moved among a number of locations, practiced acute care medicine, and eventually became certified in

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medicine. He became a vegan in 1981. He is a medical consultant for the

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and has spoken at their Vegetarian Summerfest in 2012 and 2018. Klaper has spoken at several other national and international vegan, vegetarian, and natural health conferences and events. He served as director of a vegan health spa in Pompano Beach, Florida from the early 1990s and was featured on the 1991

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documentary '' Diet for a New America'' by John Robbins. In 1988, Klaper was a

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nutrition adviser and on vegan diets for long term space colonists. He also served on the Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Task Force of the

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(AMSA), where he was a member of its Board of Advisors. He cofounded with John Robbins the environmental organization EarthSave International and served as its Scientific Director. He was a Founding Director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research. Klaper maintained a medical practice in Maui,

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between 1995 and 2006, and practiced medicine in Whangarei,

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between 2006 and 2009. In 2009, he relocated to Northern California, where as of 2011 he became staff physician and medical consultant at the nutritionally-based TrueNorth Health Center in

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, where is now is on the board of directors of the TrueNorth Health Foundation. He is licensed to practice medicine in California and Hawaii and now is affiliated with the Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. His books include ''Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple'' and ''Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet''. He has appeared in several films related to vegan diet and practice, including ''Eat This!'' (2005), '' Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret'' (2014), and ''

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'' (2017). Klaper is on the advisory board, and regular contributor to the quarterly publication '' Naked Food Magazine''. In the summer of 1992, he was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame of the North American Vegetarian Society.

Works

Books * * :Republished in German in 2007 a
Viva vegan für Mutter und Kind: gesunde vegetarische Ernährung während Schwangerschaft und Kindheit
Publisher: Animal-Peace-Verlag, 2007; , 9783981173802; 134 pages. Forewords in books, including * Gentle World. ''The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals''. Publisher: Gentle World, Inc., 1990. , 9780929274188. 192 pages. :The author of the 1990 cookbook is Gentle World, and the Foreword was written by Klaper.Amazon.com listing for The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals, Accessed July 15, 2019
/ref> Various journal articles, including: *Goldhamer, AC., Klaper, M, Foorohar A, & Myers TR (2015)
Water-only fasting and an exclusively plant foods diet in the management of stage IIIa, low-grade follicular lymphoma
BMJ Case Reports, 2015, bcr2015211582. *Nejad MS, Klaper MA, Steggerda FR, Gianturco C. ''Radiology''. 1968 Aug;91(2):248-50
Clotting on the outer surfaces of vascular catheters
. . Videos
''A Diet for All Reasons''
*''Sense and Nonsense in Nutrition: A Look at Today's Most Common Health Myth''s. VegSource Studio: 67 minutes. ASIN: B009DOGJOA.

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Early life and education

Career

Works

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