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Graduate Tyler Kalisiak: Sport Nutritionist

During the last 30+ years, weโ€™ve certified over 130,000 professionals. Meet one of our featured grads,ย Tyler Kalisiak, an AFPA Certified Sports Nutritionist and Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, who’s built a successful business working with athletes.

Graduate Harvey Slater: Weight Management Consultant

During the last 30+ years, weโ€™ve certified over 130,000 professionals. Meet one of our featured grads, Harvey Slater, an AFPA Certified Holistic Nutritionist & AFPA Certified Weight Management Consultant,ย who shifted careers from being a chef to building his own private nutrition practice. How did you originally become interested in health and wellness? I have a […]

AFPA Graduate Spotlight: Allison Wells, Nutrition & Wellness Consultant

During the last 30 years, weโ€™ve certified over 130,000 professionals. Meet one of our featured grads, Allison Wells, an AFPA Nutrition & Wellness Consultant, who’sย been certified with us forย several years and has used toย her certification to build a successfulย nutrition and personal training business.

Diet, Depression, and Anxiety

Everyone has a downer of a day now and then. The kind where you just have the blues and are feeling low. Similarly, everyone has fears and things that induce nervousness. Find some dietary tips for how to boost your mood in our article How Nutrients Affect Mood and Behavior and the biological pathways they […]

How Nutrients Affect Mood and Behavior

The first article in this series on food and mood explains the chemical basis for how food affects our mood. In this article, weโ€™ll talk more about specific foods and eating habits that affect your mood and the burgeoning field of Nutritional Psychology. What is Nutritional Psychology?