Hi, my name is Stella Elis Perez, I am a “Certified Nutritional Health Coach”. Graduated from the Institute for Integrated Nutrition (IIN) – New York. Before continuing to tell you about my experience at the Institute, I would like to tell you why I came here.
I am native of Uruguay. During my childhood, my parents suffered numerous illnesses. I, for my part, also suffered often from upset stomach, abdominal swelling, headaches and many ear infections among other diseases. Doctors always treated my illnesses with antibiotics and different pills, but the discomfort was always coming back.
Although we ate quite “healthy” with a diet of fruits and vegetables, my consumption of sugars, fats, processed foods, and carbohydrates was very high, since that is the typical food of the region.
When I became a mother of 4 children, I realized that I did not want my children to suffer the same discomfort because of an inadequate diet, the way I did. What I want most is to be healthy for them and I want them to grow up as healthy and happy children.
My process of change began about 6 years ago when I discovered that many of the foods we were consuming daily were loaded with harmful substances to our body and unfortunately we were caught by the advertising media. Doing different researches I realized that the way we were fed in my family circle was not the best.
The vast majority of the processed products we get in supermarkets have an endless list of ingredients that we sometimes cannot even pronounce and we do not know what they are. Dyes, preservatives, additives, sweeteners, among others, have many negative effects on our body.
So I started changing our eating and living habits, including a lot more fruits and vegetables, avoiding processed foods, getting rid of cow’s milk, consuming much more water and introducing homemade natural juices. Our health improved tremendously!
At that point, I wanted to go further and study more in depth about health, Primary, and Secondary food. It was then that I discovered “IIN” and had a great opportunity to have well-known mentors such as *Dr. Andrew Weill, *Dr. Joel Fuhrman, *Dr. Daniel Amen, *Dr. Barrie Sears, *David Wolf, Joshua Rosenthal – Founder and Director of IIN among others.
I am very happy to be part of such an amazing program and being able to help others to change their eating habits and their quality of life to improve their health and live a happy life.
Love,
Stella “Elis” Perez – Certified Nutritional Health Coach –
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