Nutrition Story Submissions

Bethany Boatwright from Ohio

Hello, my name is Bethany Boatwright. I live in Ohio, and I am a 33 year old wife and mother of two boys. They are ages 7 and 4. I also work full time. I was hospitalized four times last year after living a life of being completely healthy. I was diagnosed with crohns. I also had a total abdominal hysterectomy and my appendix removed....

Aaron Guyett from California

As a personal trainer in Orange County, there is fierce competition between other trainers to look and feel your best. I realized the diet I was following in the Marine Corps was good, but it wasn't good enough. I became nutrition certified to be a consultant, and this helped my personal training business in Irvine, Costa Mesa,...

Angela Bejarano from Arizona

I'm a mother of 3 and how this affects your body only mothers will know. My weight before I was pregnant was 125 lbs. Yeah, it was great; now I'm about 135-140 (it fluctuates). I'm sure you may think this is not bad. But what I'm trying to do is lose about 10-15 lbs. and gain muscle. Typically women and men can lose weight, but...

Naomi Martin from California

Practice Manager
Teenage Nancy came to us for prenatal care and was not gaining any weight. She said she ate well. While doing nutritional education, and encouraging questions and discussion, I discovered that Nancy was a high school cheerleader. Using the educational materials, and nutritional requirements as common ground, I found Nancy had not told...

Chad Mitchell from Florida

Being married with one child and one on the way, I tended to make a lot of food decisions based on convience. Just recently, I decided to make a decision not only for myself, but for my family. First, I made an appointment with my family physician to get a physical. Unfortunately, I was greeted with bad news. My weight to...

Tanya Alvino from New York

Around the peak of the low-carb dieting craze in 2000, I decided that I had had enough of being overweight and very unhappy with how my body looked. I am 5'4" tall and weighed about 180 pounds at that time. I managed to convince myself that the basic scientific principles behind the low-carb diet were more or less accurate: If...

Lynn Peters from New Jersey

I am a currently masters of teaching student at Montclair State University. Since a very young age, I have had poor digestive health. I was diagnosed with lactose intolerance at an early age and was still getting sick. By the time I was in college it was finally diagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I still have not maintained a...