Modern Women's Nutrition: What to Expect
Here's the scoop for your go-to weekly simple, feel-good recipes & women's hormone & metabolic health nutrition deep-dives for a happier, healthier YOU!
I’m thrilled to introduce you to Modern Women’s Nutrition!
You deserve to feel strong, vibrant, and in control of your health. That’s why I created Modern Women’s Nutrition—to be the resource I wish I had when I started my own journey.
My goal is to empower YOU with easy to implement nutrition tools and recipes through every stage of life — from fertility, to pregnancy, to postpartum, to growing a family, to perimenopause and beyond.
Each week I share the latest relevant information, tips, studies, and a simple delicious recipe with the goal of maintaining and improving your metabolic and hormone health.
Modern Women’s Nutrition covers 5 vital topics revolving around women’s nutrition, rotating weekly. These include:
Fertility and conception: We explore nutrition and lifestyle choices that can positively impact fertility. From foods that boost reproductive health to the role of vitamins and minerals in your partner, here you'll find valuable insights to support your exciting journey toward parenthood.
Pregnancy — all 40 weeks: We cover each trimester in depth, offering tailored advice on what to eat during all 40 weeks, what to avoid, and how to manage common pregnancy-related symptoms.
Postpartum: The postpartum period is often overlooked, but it's a time of significant change and adjustment. I’d say it’s one of the most stressful times and it’s when women have the most questions! Modern Women’s Nutrition provides guidance on postpartum nutrition, focusing on healing, recovery of body and your normal weight, healthy milk production, and maintaining energy levels.
Women’s hormonal & metabolic health needs for longevity: Discover how to support your body through various life stages, including managing stress, balancing hormones, improving your metabolic health and choosing the right supplements (if at all). Here’s where we chat about perimenopause and longevity. Also, different conditions, such as PCOS, endometriosis, hyper and hypothyroidism, and pre-diabetes + gestational diabetes are topics we discuss here, too!
Cooking for your family: As your family grows, so does the need for convenient, healthy meals that everyone will enjoy. I share family-friendly recipes and meal planning strategies to make your hectic life a little easier!
This information is available for you to learn and apply as you see fit, depending on who you are and what stage of your lifelong journey that you’re in.
I’d love to get to know you!
Join our chat group, introduce yourself, and tell me what’s on your mind. Your questions and experiences shape this community!
And I’d love love love to hear more about where you are on this journey, so that our topics are helpful to you! Please feel free to share in our community chat, or DM me directly.
What to Expect:
I’ll be sharing a weekly newsletter, every Saturday (sometimes Sunday) morning. Every newsletter will contain a simple, delightful recipe that you’ll just love — whether cooking it over the weekend, or taking the weekend to prep so you can enjoy it during the week.
No matter who you are, how old you are, and at what stage of life you’re in, ALL of these recipes are healthy, delicious options for you and your family to enjoy any day of the week. Throughout the week I’ll share anything else I think you might find interesting and other nutrition-related insights along the way that I think you would like to see as they come up. Interested?
Recipes follow the following guidelines:
Dinners typically require less than 30 minutes prep
Breakfasts & lunches typically require less than 15 minutes to prep
Snacks typically require less than 5 minutes to prep
Photo credit: Keira Natalia Photography
Recipe Principles:
The Julienne recipes included in this newsletter will always be free of processed sugars & flour. They are based on whole, nutritious foods. They are low-to-no sugar, low-carb and blood sugar friendly (and no cane sugar is ever used).
Substitutions for ALL ingredients, pregnancy-safety notes, and SO MUCH more will be provided below the recipe. These recipes use less than 12 ingredients (minus salt and pepper 😉). They take less than 30 minutes to prep for dinners, and less than 15 minutes for breakfasts and lunch. Challenge accepted!
Need personalized nutrition advice? Text our experts: +1-732-EAT-WISE (+1-732-328-9473)
Just so you know:
This newsletter is written by a professional chef and health researcher—(me, Hi!).
I’m Anja and I have over 12 years of experience as a professional chef, caterer and teacher. It has been my mission for the past 12 years to create delicious, nutrient-rich tasty dishes, full of flavor, but without any of the unnecessary nasty ingredients. I healed my own digestive and hormonal struggles with the power of whole foods and high quality ingredients, and I’m excited to share my learnings with other women like you.
I have just one more request for you—if there’s a person in your life who you think would benefit from this newsletter, please share, it would mean the world to me! 💜
Disclaimer:
Science connecting nutrition with to women’s health and the perinatal journey is relatively new. Until recently, most research was done on healthy, white adult men. And if researched focused on a woman, it was not during pregnancy.
So, the information provided here is intended to be cutting edge, bringing you up-to-date modern research on what’s being discovered today.
It’s important to know that there is still MUCH MORE that we don’t know about in women’s health, the perinatal journey and nutrition, than what we do know. I am not a doctor and this information is not meant to be used as medical advice. Please make sure to consult your doctor for any medical questions. This information is solely for the purpose of bringing you easily, digestible information that I am finding from reputable sources, and to help you implement it into your everyday life.
Like what you see? Have any questions? Let me know by sending me a DM! I’d love to meet you and answer your questions the best I can!
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