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Hi, I’m Jen—certified health coach and integrative nutritionist with over 12 years specializing in lifestyle diseases, which are conditions the CDC recognizes as largely preventable through diet and habit changes. I help women…
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Hi, I’m Jen—certified health coach and integrative nutritionist with over 12 years specializing in lifestyle diseases. These are conditions the CDC recognizes as largely preventable through diet and habit changes: prediabetes,…
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A comprehensive, holistic approach to reversing insulin resistance and retraining your body to release weight
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If you’re here, you’ve likely received news that your A1c or fasting glucose is higher than it should be. Maybe you’re sitting in that “prediabetes” zone—not quite diabetic, but not quite where you want to be either. Also, your…
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I am an optimist. And I’m also someone who just decides. When it comes to my own health and wellbeing, I make a decision and then I choose that decision every day until it no longer serves the highest version of me. We’re always…
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When the weather turns cool and your body needs gentle nourishment, soup becomes medicine . These soups are certainly comforting, but they’re also metabolic-healing meals I’ve curated to help women stabilize blood sugar, reduce…
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❌ I don’t drink my sugar. When it comes to sugar, I use a sugar “credit” system where I give myself one daily sugar allowance. Sugar is already in everything and a lot of times cannot be avoided entirely, but when it comes to…
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I used to get sick constantly. Every cold going around, every seasonal bug, every little thing—I’d catch it. And then I’d be down for days, sometimes weeks.
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In nutrition school, they taught us meal planning like it was the holy grail. Map out every meal for the week. Create your shopping list. Prep your ingredients on Sunday. This was how you helped clients succeed.
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For me, this is the most anticipated meal of the year. Kind of dramatic, but completely true. Growing up, we only had a full spread, full course meal 3 times a year: Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. There were different menus…
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Chocolate, bread, candy, french fries, chips, ice cream, steak, butter, eggs—it really doesn’t matter what you crave. It’s not about the what, it’s why you crave what you crave.
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One of the basics I learned in Nutrition School was that we should focus on “crowding out” and not restriction. This essentially means that the more healthy foods you add to your diet, naturally less helpful foods will be…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about movement lately. Not the punishing, high-intensity kind that leaves you sore for days. And not the kind that you absolutely do not want to do even though everyone is saying “you should try it!”. The…
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I’m not gonna lie, I used to stand inside my pantry at 9 PM each night, telling myself I wasn’t hungry, I’d already had dinner, I didn’t need anything. I’d stare at the tea, knowing I should make that and go to bed… but I’d opt…
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If you’re in the U.S. like I am, you know that holiday season not only brings a bounty of food and events, but it brings in a lot of processed foods. I read an article this morning from The Times about ultra-processed foods in…
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