Nutrition for home-schooled kids: Expert advice to parents
Now that children are being home-schooled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic… Parents and families may be seeking your expert nutritional advice. If you’re taking our Advanced Child and Brain Development Nutritional Advisor certification, this is your time to shine! In addition to the valuable resources found in the certification, we’ve put together some answers to common…
Adapt and Diversify – How to Continue to Grow your Nutrition, Health, or Fitness Business in a Remote Environment
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” ― Molière These are strange times. We’re living through one of the most impactful collective traumas in recent history. Schools are closed and parents are home schooling. Jobs have been lost. The economy is suffering. People are hoarding food. Health has become one of the major…
The Best Answers to Your Clients’ Top 10 Nutrition Questions
With COVID-19 filling all of our newsfeeds, it can be easy to forget that we still need practical advice on how to work and interact with our clients. Right now, it’s more important than ever for us to take an attitude of servant leadership – placing the needs of our clients as one of our…
Coronavirus: Extensive Q&A with our Chief Science Educator, Alex Ruani
A quick note before we begin: Please keep in mind that we’re striving to provide the most up-to-date information available. New policies and procedures may have been put in place and are subject to change. Please – ALWAYS – check with your local authorities to find out what you can and should be doing during…
Coronavirus: Misinformation and setting the record straight
Are you getting tons of questions about coronavirus from clients, peers, and loved ones? What’s fact, and what’s fiction? Our Chief Science Educator at The Health Sciences Academy, Alex Ruani, gives us the answers to some of the toughest questions, and puts an end to some of the misinformation going around. Alex’s motto? Be prepared,…
Why ‘junk food stockpiling’ may worsen COVID-19 (Coronavirus) infection risk
The past few days I’ve been asked a lot about food stockpiling… What’s the right way to do it? Which foods? How much? With more than a third of UK shoppers panic-buying in case of a major coronavirus outbreak, I’m afraid people aren’t making the best purchase decisions. To make things worse… So-called ‘doomsday preppers’…
Is Your Career Fulfilling? How to Decide when a Professional Pivot is Right for You
Do you get out of bed every day dreading your workday? Do you feel like all you’re doing is counting down the minutes until you can get back to your actual life, like work is just something you HAVE to do to facilitate your other activities? I’m going to let you in on a not…
Poll Results: What Factors Contribute the Most to Early Childhood Development?
In January, we asked you to participate in a survey, asking you to help us understand what we adults believe as being important for childhood wellbeing and development. As many of us know – this is probably one of the most important topics we can discuss! Excellent early development leads to happier, healthier, and often…
Expert Tips and Insights with Chris Barker – Part Two
As promised, we had the pleasure of sitting down with fitness professional Christopher (Chris) Barker once more to gain additional insight on some of the challenges faced by aspiring nutrition pros attempting to enter (and master) the market. He shared his expert advice on facing industry challenges, and how to continue to stay motivated as…
Nutrition Certifications or Degree: Which Path is Right for You?
From the time we’re very small, many of us are told that achieving success begins with nursery school and ends with a college degree. And while this still holds true for many, it’s important to point out that this is no longer the only path to professional and personal success. At The Health Sciences Academy,…
