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About Me ________________________________________ Angela Pifer was born and raised in the greater Seattle area. She earned her undergraduate in Psychology and Premed from the University of Washington, where she worked for two years training in motivational interviewing and counseled peers with eating disorders. She then earned her Masters of Science from Bastyr University and worked one year as a student clinician at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health. While attending Bastyr, Angela was President of The Student Association of Nutritionists and Dieticians and started a mentor program for incoming students. While serving as President, she started and acquired funding for an 800 square foot organic garden at Marymoor Park in Redmond. Angela still runs the organic garden and serves on the board of the Marymoor Park Garden as Vice-President. Angela is a certified nutritionist in Washington State, owner of The Nourished Body and creator of The Nourished Nation and The Nourished Community. She works privately with children and adults out of her Carillon Point office in Kirkland. She specializes in the development of customized nutrition programs, offering the continued support and guidance to help each of her clients meet their lifestyle goals. She has worked extensively with young and adult athletes, weight loss, diabetes, food sensitivities and countering the effects of menopause. Angela also consults with major corporations on how they can implement corporate wellness into their employee’s lives and recently developed the “Get Nourished, Get Fit” program for Emerald City Smoothie. Angela is passionate about promoting a positive relationship with food because nutrition is a crucial component in a healthy lifestyle. Angela helps each client develop a personal definition of 'good nutrition'. Our culture of dieting has drawn us away from listening to our bodies and its needs. She teaches her clients how to begin to listen to theses cues, how to strategize their daily and weekly food intake and how to break the dieting cycle. Angela encourages her clients to set realistic goals and to implement change gradually. By doing so these gradual changes become routines and habits that can take hold over a lifetime. Angela worked for over 15 years as a volunteer at the Woodland Park Zoo. She is the youngest volunteer allowed entry into the Docent program. As a public educator, she led tours and provided talks to visitors, with topics ranging from Endangered Species to the Ecological and Societal Impact of Poaching. She also worked behind the scenes with many of the keepers on research projects. While attending the University of Washington Angela combined her passion for animals with her love of psychology, while she worked for the behavioral research scientists for a year observing the lowland gorilla troop at the zoo. She has kissed a giraffe, held lion and tiger cubs, stood face to face with an African elephant, fed a full grown Kodiak bear by hand, held hands with an orangutan, scratched a tapirs chin, and held an indigo snake (her favorite). For the past two years Angela has worked as a volunteer for the MEOW Cat Rescue Shelter in Kirkland, Washington. She was thrilled to be asked to MC the 2007 Fine Wines & Felines Auction, held on Mercer Island. The auction goal was met! $30,000 was raised! When she retires she will open a cat shelter of her own. Angela believes that health care professionals should live by the principles they teach. She stays in shape and maintains a youthful appearance by eating a diet low in processed foods and incorporating activity into her daily schedule. When choosing a certified nutritionist, she believes clients need to find someone they feel comfortable with and someone who inspires them. Angela leads weekly hikes and walks with her clients, emphasizing that activity can be fun and inspirational. By following the principles she teaches, she has been successful at maintaining her BMI, weight for height and percent body fat within ideal ranges for over two decades.
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July 21st, 2007 at 10:41 am
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July 21st, 2007 at 11:05 am
What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?
Wouldn’t it feel wonderful to look at a plate of food and not automatically conger the amount of calories, fat grams or points that lay in front of you? Eating food has become a chore as the question, “what can I have” echoes with each hunger pain felt over the course of the day. How have we become so confused?
Each week news stories report on the latest health studies, focusing on a nutrient thought to improve health or further our demise. In the wake of this confusion food has been reduced to the value of the nutrient it contains.
With the current mood of our culture we eat a strawberry because it has vitamin C in it and not because it tastes sweet and satisfying on our tongue. We eat a handful of bland cookies because they are labeled “low fat” and are so deemed a better choice over the homemade chocolate chip cookie, fresh from the oven. We stay away from fruit because they contain, “all that sugar” that we have repeatedly been warned is killing Americans. Do we eat the strawberry anyway, because it has vitamin C in it? We could choose to take a vitamin C supplement, right? This seems the easiest solution to rectify the conflicting headlines in the news. Unfortunately, if you forgo the strawberry for a vitamin C pill you will be missing out on hundreds of other compounds in the fruit that benefit your body, but more importantly you will miss out on the experience of tasting the delicious fruit.
In this society most of us grow up eating without ever being told why we eat, the function of food in our bodies and how to develop a healthy relationship with food. We model our eating patterns after our families and our peers. Without a basic understanding of nutrition how can we expect to recognize sound and reliable information vs. the misinformation we receive from the media or our coworkers?
Try this experiment (if you have not already experienced this): make it known in your circle of friends and coworkers that you are thinking about going on a diet. Then sit back and listen to the advice you receive. It seems nowadays everyone’s an expert. Mind you, their hearts are in the right place. Yet their advice each contradicts the next. Who do you trust?
For the lay person, the media may as well be talking about an element on the periodic table. Most of us remember the table hanging on the wall in chemistry class. But I doubt many of us remember where each element is placed, the amount of electrons and protons that reside in the nucleus, and how the elements react with each other. (You see, I already messed up. Protons reside in the nucleus and electrons outside…how many of you caught that?) By reducing food to the nutrients it contains we are at the mercy of scientists to help guide our food choices.
Americans have followed suit, trying to eat a little more of this nutrient and a little less of that nutrient, depending on the latest thinking.
In the wake of amassing health diseases and obesity the food industry, recognizing the potential for monetary growth, has been quick to respond promptly reformulating their food products to reflect the new ‘official’ scientific advice. Eggs have been fortified with omega 3; tortillas have frequently changed their stripes from “trans fat free” to “low cab” to “high fiber” to “net carb.” Low carb, low fat, low sugar containing foods have inundated our supermarkets, each easily labeled for identification as a “healthy food choice.” How is the typical whole food supposed to compete with a food product that can change its label so easily? A strawberry is just a strawberry and a potato is just a potato. During the Atkins craze potatoes sat in the produce section while tortillas were reformulated to low carb. The American waistline has expanded in response to focusing on low fat and “nutrient dense” processed foods.
The relationship and experience of food has been lost.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am
Welcome to Sweat365. I am looking forward to hearing the voice of reason in a world so inundated with mixed messages. Nutrition makes a big difference, whether we want to improve our health or compete in athletic events.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
Thanks Lisa and I agree. I find so many people searching for the correct way to eat for life and for an active life, yet there is so much misinformation that ciculates in our society. I feel most articles or the latest theories, take a good idea and run too far with it. I truly feel nutrition and the digestive system are the gateway to optimal health…and we each have to find what is right for us. Learning to listen to our bodies instead of seeking out the latest think works better than trying extreme measures.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
Yay, a nutritionist! Also looking forward to hearing your expertise.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:28 am
I’m thrilled to have a nutritionist join our voices! And, I love your take on the lost food relationship. I can’t wait to learn more from you. Welcome!