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Hello! It seems like I fell into nutrition by accident, when in reality there were a lot of nudges along the path. First off, like a lot of people, I grew up eating whatever I was given or fancied with little thought about anything more than “Is it yummy?”.

Then, at age 22, I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease. I was quite ill and told to stop eating gluten immediately (and for the rest of my life). Cool. What’s gluten? I had no idea.

So, overnight I went from having zero thought about food other than taste and expense to having to learn very quickly what I could and couldn’t eat as my health depended on it. There wasn’t a heap of information and very few people understood it back then.

At the time, I was working in the health sector and started to join the dots between food that helped people to recover or stay healthy and food that didn’t. 

Fast forward a few years and one of my children developed eczema as a baby and asthma as a toddler. Not satisfied with just treating with medication, we tried to investigate some things like food triggers and it was hard work and very expensive. 

I was so frustrated that something we all do everyday (prepare and eat food) was so hard to get accurate, understandable information to make sense of health conditions and how to improve or prevent them.

That, I guess was the turning point- I wanted to train in nutrition so I could help make sure information was accurate, accessible and applicable for all. So back to uni I went.

My passion is just that- those 3 A’s, helping people make great choices about feeding themselves, their family and friends to enjoy awesome healthy bodies that do what they are supposed to.