In today’s tumultuous and uncertain times, where unpredictability is the prevailing reality, the significance of managing our health and lifestyle has never been more apparent. Amidst the chaos and confusion, we find solace in knowing that one aspect is within our control – our dietary choices and overall well-being. Nutritionists and dieticians emerge as vital guides on this journey, charting a course toward healthier living and fulfilling our nutritional needs.
The roles of nutritionists and dieticians extend far beyond providing dietary advice. They possess a deep understanding of nutrition science, utilizing evidence-based knowledge to empower individuals in making informed dietary decisions. In an age rife with misinformation, these professionals offer a reliable source of guidance, helping individuals navigate the complex landscape of nutrition.
1: Rujuta Diwekar: Your Nutritional Guru
Born in a typical middle-class Maharashtrian family, Rujuta imbibed the principles of ‘continuous learning’ and ‘pursuit of excellence in your field’ by default and not from a self-help book. After graduation, as she contemplated pursuing her passion further, luckily, Mumbai University started a post-graduation program called ‘Sports Science and Nutrition’ in collaboration with IIT, Mumbai. And she was on her way.
Her entire family practiced yoga as a way of life, very matter-of-factly, and this greatly influenced her. She decided to further her understanding and studied Yoga and Vedanta with Ayurveda from Sivananda Yog Vedanta Forest Academy. She applied what she learned about nutrition and exercise science to the Indian way of life sensibly and practically.
2: Raksha Changappa: Crafting Your Healthier Tomorrow
Raksha Changappa is an award-winning Indian dietitian-nutritionist based in Bangalore, India. A nutrition activist and advocate, she is also a published nutrition author and nutrition panelist, among others.
Raksha has the unique privilege of being the only nutritionist with the most nutrition awards/accolades amongst the country’s privately practicing dietitians and nutritionists. She is also the best multi-specialized privately practicing nutritionist in India, owing to the fact she handles the rarest of rare disorders (e.g., phenylketonuria, systemic lupus, avascular necrosis) and better-known disorders (e.g., obesity, diabetes mellitus) with equal expertise.
www.rakshachangappa.com/home
3: Ryan Fernando: Empowering You Through Nutrition
Dr Ryan Fernando is recognized as one of the most accomplished dietitians and nutritionists in Bangalore, boasting 26 years of successful experience. He holds an M.Sc in Clinical Biochemistry and practices at QUA Nutrition in Indira Nagar, Bangalore.
In addition to his work in Bangalore, Dr. Fernando also serves as a nutritionist and health coach to international Indian celebrities and sports superstars.
Renowned as a top-tier sports nutritionist, Ryan Fernando caters to numerous athletes, striving to offer scientifically designed dietary plans for everyone.
Furthermore, he has established a chain of clinics known as QUA NUTRITION, which employs over 50 specialized dietitians.
Ryan Fernando’s core philosophy
There is no one miracle food
All diets are bound to fail
The only sure way to learn how your body balances and accepts food
Remove foods that are triggers (those that don’t agree with us)
Find the foods that make your body feel like a million bucks
Use science like blood testing, allergy testing, and genetic testing to guide you with precision.
4: Pooja Makhija – rebuild your faith in food
Renowned Celebrity Nutritionist, Best Selling Author. Pooja is a nutritionist to stars like Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar, Twinkle Khanna, Tammana Bhatia, Ishaan Khattar, and Sushmita Sen.
Pooja Makhija is a celebrity dietician. She also provides solutions for metabolic disorders like diabetes, thyroid, hypertension, and heart disease.
Makhija runs Clay Wellness and teaches her clients to eat right, stay fit, and maintain high energy levels.
Pooja Makhija can be labelled as a true hard-bred nutritionist from Mumbai with an MSc in Food Science and Nutrition and has catered to more than 10,000 clients across a wide spectrum of people from varied backgrounds—entrepreneurs, homemakers, working professionals, and a whole bunch from the fashion and film fraternity.
In her fifteen years of practice, she has transformed the bodies and lives of over twenty-five thousand people, making planet Earth more than 125,000 kilos lighter.
Apart from being a celebrity nutritionist, Pooja is also a bestselling author of Eat Delete and Eat Delete Junior, a television star, founder of the app Nourish Genie, an entrepreneur, and a devoted mother of two. She works from her clinic, Nourish, in Mumbai and also consults online.
Having started over a decade ago, Pooja Makhija today is one of India’s leading authorities on nutrition and wellness. Having successfully catered to over 10,000 clients, including professionals, homemakers, Bollywood stars, CEOs, sports personalities, models, and the like.
Pooja works with you through Diabetes, PCOS, heart disease, weight gain, and MORE so that you can NOURISH your body through the plate and not through a pill. Pooja also teaches you how to reclaim the long-lost relationship with food to reclaim the fit, healthy body you have always wanted and the life you have always wanted to live.
Eat. Energise. Glow. Nourish is Pooja Makhija’s Mantra for a fit life and living.
Key Successes:
Worked as an independent nutritionist since 2002
Launched her well-being clinic, Nourish, in 2011
Pooja released her first book ‘eat. Delete.’, a book on weight loss and how to get the best mind and body approach to permanent weight loss.
This book has been printed successfully in 5 languages.
Launched her second book “ eat. Delete. Junior” in 2017
Had her show on the Food Food channel called the “ Pooja Makhija Show.”
Hosted a fitness segment on 91.1 Radio called Ram Pam Poshan
Regular author in The Bombay Times and Times Life
5: Roshni Sanghvi-body transformation specialist
Roshni Sanghvi is an award-winning plant-based sports nutritionist and a renowned body transformation specialist based in Bangalore, India.
She is recognised for top-class nutrition diet plans that are proven to reverse diseases like PCOS, Diabetes, Thyroid, and many more. Her unique approach focuses on helping people adopt a healthy lifestyle. Her simple, easy and holistic methods are loved and recommended by many.
Roshni is an Indian plant-based sports nutritionist and body transformation specialist. She is the first Indian to represent on a national bodybuilding stage, being on a 100% plant-based diet. Roshni is a holistic nutritionist who graduated from the prestigious NutraPhoria College of Nutrition in Canada. She is also an ACE-certified personal trainer, certified PlantFed gut coach, certified Bodyshred, and an Animal flow instructor specialising in disease reversal through food and lifestyle modification.
Besides this, she is also a sports nutritionist and has trained herself in multiple alternative therapy forms, such as the Wim Hoff breathing method and QiGong meditation. She also has a Master’s in clinical psychology, which makes her capable of breaking any psychological blocks and empowering millions of people worldwide with the confidence that will change their lifestyles forever.
Roshni had her share of past struggles with body image and weight problems. There was a sense of realisation when she saw her father struggle, too. She carefully listened to all the body signals, and such an awakening fuelled the motivation to do something extraordinary in Fitness and Health.
What makes her different from other nutritionists?
Well, for a start, she won’t make you count your calories in and calories out. Roshni’s approach to training and working with clients is different. She mainly concentrates on changes that you can continue for a lifetime.
Compared to other nutritionists, Roshni’s programs are not unidirectional. Besides helping you achieve a number on the weighing scale, Roshni will help you heal your gut dysbiosis, share techniques to boost your metabolism, and balance fluctuating hormones.
This is why most clients who work with Roshni see an improvement in hair health, skin health, and energy levels and can stay lean even if they are eating more calories than ever before.
Many promise, but only a few deliver – You deserve to be happy, strong, healthy, and fit. Thousands like you have already started their journey, and you, too, can get the motivation to wake the fitness giant within you.
Get in touch with her to start your fitness journey.
Checkout Roshni Sanghvi’s website for more information
https://roshnisanghvi.com
6: Anju Venkat – To feel empowered
Mumbai-based Dr Anju Venkat is a leading nutritionist and co-facilitator at the Health Awareness Centre (THAC). The centre works on the philosophy of natural laws.
THAC believe that the human body is genetically designed to function based on nature’s blueprint. They study, research and propagate natural laws to examine the underlying principles guiding our mind and body to enable growth and maintenance with minimum interference or dependence on short-term quick fixes.
They focus on self-care based on lifestyle choices in harmony with nature’s rhythms.
The-gut-connection : https://sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/article/the-gut-connection
https://learning.thac.in/aboutus
7: Dr Shikha Sharma – Combines tech with Vedic principles
What you eat is what you become—the mantra behind Dr. Shikha Sharma’s NutriHealth, which offers comprehensive health and diet management programs. Clubbing technology and Vedic nutrition, Shikha provides personalized advice to help people realize their potential for well-being. While working as a junior cardiologist, Shikha learned that most patients in the ICU had no idea about the root cause of their heart problems. They were also likely to relapse into unhealthy eating after treatment. She started with nutrition advice, but there weren’t many takers in a country where the majority’s attitude is “jab hoga tab dekhenge” (we will see when it happens). So she repackaged it as weight-loss consultations, and it worked. This led her to start NutriHealth Systems in 2012.
Marriage of modern and traditional The business-to-consumer model revolves around direct sales to people and looks at correcting lifestyle disorders by providing a coaching and counselling program at the consumer’s convenience. Every client is assigned a personal doctor and a nutritionist. After counselling, clients are given customized diet plans based on their lifestyles and health conditions. The mobile app helps track clients’ progress and choose recipes they like.
Clients can contact their nutritionist and doctor over the phone or via Skype. The venture is based on the concept of nutrigenetics, which combines modern medicine with the principles of Ayurveda.
NutriHealth analyses blood test reports and Prakriti—body type—before designing and prescribing diets. The company uses technology like proprietary nutrition software for diet planning and management and smart health solutions like a weighing scale that measures fat, hydration, etc. It is connected to the personal mobile app, which is further connected to the personal nutritionist and health adviser.
8: Anjali Mukerjee – pioneer in creating health awareness
Anjali Mukerjee – Nutritionist, Researcher, Columnist, Author, and Founder Director – HEALTH TOTAL is India’s leading Nutritionist and a pioneer in creating health awareness. The company Health Total (founded by Saurabh Mukerjee and Anjali Mukerjee), which has 60 centres across India, has helped more than 5,00,000 patients reap the benefits of non-drug therapy. She, along with her team of Nutritionists, Ayurvedic doctors and Homeopaths, has been able to successfully manage lifestyle problems like Obesity, Digestive Disorders, High Cholesterol, Type II Diabetes, Hypertension, Menopausal Complaints, Chronic Fatigue, Low Immunity etc. with the help of advanced Nutritional Therapy, Ayurveda, Nutritional Medicine, Herbs, Therapeutic lifestyle management, counselling and exercise.
She has been a keen researcher and has written several case studies and review articles published in journals like Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science and the Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, among others.
Anjali Mukerjee has been honoured with numerous prestigious awards like ‘The Phoenix Power Women Awards 2018’, 50 Outstanding Women in Healthcare – Global Award 2017’, Khar Gymkhana ‘Living Legend Award 2017’, ‘Dr. Ambedkar Ratna Award – 2016’, ‘The Global Women Achiever Award 2019’, ‘Living Foodz Powerlist – Best Nutritionist Award 2016’, ‘Outstanding Women Leadership Achievement Award – 2016’ and many more. She was an official nutritionist to the Femina Miss India contestants for 8 years consecutively (1997–2004). Her book ‘Healing with Foods has been on the bestseller list. She has spoken at various health summits, conducted several health-based festivals and lectures, and featured on TV shows like Food Food, CNBC, Lifestyle Guru, etc.
Anjali Mukerjee, in her small way, is trying to make a difference in people’s lives. She has discovered simple tools that can improve the health of many people who feel uninspired, unhealthy, and unhappy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-mukerjee-28985013a/?originalSubdomain=in
9: Lavleen Kaur – Value traditional food. Don’t ‘diet’, switch to a healthier lifestyle instead!
Lavleen Kaur is an award-winning dietitian, clinical nutritionist and lifestyle coach from Chandigarh, India. She received ‘Most Promising Youngest Dietitian in North India’ at the International Healthcare Awards in New Delhi in 2016.
Lavleen Kaur holds a Master’s in Science, specializing in Foods and Nutrition from Government Home Science College, Chandigarh, and a post-graduation degree in Health and Family Welfare from Panjab University. She founded Diet Insight 2014, a diet clinic in Chandigarh to provide real insight and educate common people about healthy eating and lifestyle habits.
With a small but well-connected team of qualified dietitians and nutritionists, she is serving personalized diet and lifestyle plans to clients and patients worldwide (via the mobile app ‘Diet Insight’) to manage obesity, Thyroid, PCOD/S, Diabetes, Hypertension and all other lifestyle disorders.
She does not believe in strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, she encourages using food as medicine with a holistic approach.
Her unique yet simple presentation of videos on social media always has a personal and ‘desi’ touch, which allows her to deeply connect and engage with people’s lives and deliver the message effectively.
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10: Dt. Jyoti Singh
Dr. Jyoti is living her dream of making everyone healthy and fit. Her diet consultation portal drjyotisingh.com is a complete healthy food and nutrition manual with a compendium of published articles, tried and tested recipes, videos, tips and trivia and a wealth of information on the various issues related to weight loss and therapeutic diets.
A leading nutrition and holistic therapies authority with a PhD in Food Science and Nutrition, Dr. (Mrs.) Jyoti Singh is a published nutrition author and a renowned diet consultant. She has been writing various articles in nutrition for Hindustan Times and Times of India.
In addition to being a leading nutrition expert and a well-known speaker and broadcaster, with several talk shows and a couple of programmes on Channel Punjab. Dr. Jyoti Singh is a highly qualified practising nutritionist with over eight years of formal education in the field, including Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees.
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