Good health is your life's foundation.
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Welcome to Maria Middlestead “Good health made pleasurable and practical with personalised advice from a multi-award winning nutritionist”.
Good health is your life's foundation.
How happy and effective can you be – at home or at work – without it?
Invest in yourself and become free of the tiresome and costly frustrations of weight problems, food cravings, erratic energy levels and health issues of all kinds from small to serious.
Discover: - Your unique metabolic profile detailing which foods, supplements and exercises tend to work for you - and against you.
- More time, enjoyment and vitality by fine-tuning your body at its cellular core: through the regulation of its fuel supply.
- How to address your hereditary risk factors, and initial small symptoms – like dashboard warnings – to assist the prevention of deeper dysfunctions.
- Time-savvy and tasty menu ideas that delight your palate and suit your household situation.
- Methods to help identify self-sabotage, and to sustain positive changes long term.
“I don’t usually believe in genetic engineering, but this woman should be cloned”. Megan Douglas, proprietor of Nature's Clinicals
“Having listened to Maria in seminars, on TV and having read three of her books, I am most impressed by her methods on how to have a successful relationship with food. Her message is profound, her style is welcoming”. Dr Paul Blythe, psychologist, author of Street Smarts For A Troubled World.
* Nutrition Consultations * Allergy Tests * Books & E-Books * Health Reports *
About Maria- Over 30 years of clinical experience.
- Best selling author of 7 books on food and health.
- Tertiary senior nutrition lecturer.
- Host of 4 TV cooking series in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
- Award winning nutrition writer, food writer, educator, practitioner, and public speaker.
Maria Middlestead N.D., Dip. Nut., RegCNA, RegNHCNZ is a multi-award winning clinical nutritionist of more than thirty years' experience.
Maria’s parents owned a restaurant in Vancouver, Canada and they brought her up as an equally keen cook. To help fund her university and college nutrition studies, she engaged in the unusual combination of working as a pastry chef. Unifying the immediate sensual pleasures of food, along with the far casting benefits of nutrition science, continues to typify her work.
After traveling - and instructively eating - her way around the world, Maria moved to New Zealand in 1973. She has hosted four television series on food and health in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, including live presentations each week for two years on TV One’s Good Morning show.
Maria is the best-selling author of seven books and a contributor to several others. She has written regular columns for numerous periodicals including seven years on The Christchurch Press. She has co-owned The Whole Health Centre, a health food store complex; run Food With Flair - a catering business and cooking school; and made numerous international tours with teams of doctors, psychologists and chiropractors to lecture on wellness themes.
For decades Maria has taught at universities, secondary and tertiary institutes such as Unitec, Northcote College, Performing Arts School, and South Pacific College. She is currently the senior nutrition lecturer at Wellpark College; sees clients for individually tailored health and weight consultations; writes for various international periodicals; does research, presentation and consultancy projects for the food industry; and is a popular public speaker and media presenter.
One of her latest books - The Shape Diet - looks at body-shapes and their correlation with personality types, health problems, cravings and specific foods that work for and against each type. When people discover their individual metabolic type and its customised plan, this provides the easiest, frustration-free path to maximum health and pleasure. Utilising this approach, Maria has helped and inspired many thousands of clients and students.
Maria has won awards as a food writer, educator, public speaker, practitioner, and nutrition writer (most lately as judged by a panel headed by Sir John Scott, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Auckland).
Keen to serve the community, Maria has been the New Zealand Director of the international Whole Health Institute (1980-1988), Vice President of the Emissary Charitable Trust (1982-2006), Secretary of the South Pacific Association of Natural Therapists (1992 -2005) and a founding committee member of the Clinical Nutrition Association (since 2009).
She is happily married to multi-award winning wedding and food photographer Chris Bligh (www.chrisbligh.co.nz), and has an adult daughter who too loves to cook and share the pleasures of wholesome dining.
Service Categories
Allergy Testing / Treatments, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Womens Health
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