Walt Cross Walt Cross lives in the Smoky Mountains of Eastern Tennessee where he and his family serve their community with a small ministry, Appalachian Ministries. Through their health food store, they are able to provide lifestyle education in the local public-school system, businesses, churches, and on a one-on-one basis.

Walt’s formal education was in conventional healthcare administration and worked in that field for the majority of his career. Walt accepted an invitation to work as the director of an International Lifestyle Center in the Washington D.C. market, where the method of addressing health concerns took a much more proactive approach in looking for and addressing root causes. He has found this proactive approach to addressing health concerns to be a much more effective way of addressing chronic diseases.

Walt routinely speaks around the country and abroad on the physiological benefits Lifestyle health.

When at home, Walt serves his local community as the volunteer fire chief, a passion which he has had since his early days in college.