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Nutritionist Lia Ribas is revolutionizing the way we think about nutrition and health with her exceptional abilities. The Brazilian-born nutritionist advocates for functional nutrition, which focuses on optimizing health and balance through diet and lifestyle changes. This approach to nutrition has garnered Ribas increasing acclaim back home in Brazil and increasingly overseas for her followers in the USA and Europe.
Ribas downplays this surging recognition of her ability to help her clients understand and implement wellness programs tailored to their individual needs. She takes a more modest attitude and instead refocuses attention toward her driving passion about detox diets, which she believes can be a powerful tool in helping people to achieve better health regardless of where they live.
This passion for leveraging health through nutrition was first sparked over ten years ago in Brazil during Ribas’ four years of nutrition and health sciences. Ribas recalls her eagerness to attend all the courses, lectures and conferences that were available to her. However, one particularly valuable course for Lia was metabolic biochemistry and clinical correlations and interpretation of biochemical tests, which she took with noted biochemist Professor Henrique Freire Soares.
This course proved to be of great value to her work in the office. After graduation, Lia worked with low-income individuals who could not afford full-price consultations. Along with three colleagues, she began to think of social actions for the community that would promote health and food education. This included weekend work in public areas, nutrition events, recipe workshops, small projects in children’s schools, and lectures. They also provided weekly content on social media to inform people about nutrition and health.
Ribas’ expansive expertise also extends to the area of food and beverage management projects. As Ribas puts it, “I never stopped studying and, as soon as I finished college, I started a specialization in sports, functional, and phytotherapic nutrition at Laboro College. There, I was fortunate to work with amazing and competent individuals who have helped me expand my knowledge and skills in nutrition.”
After college, Lia joined with several partners and founded the project “Healthy Calorie,” which later became the name of a successful nutrition clinic.
In the Healthy Calorie business and in other projects, Ribas’ nutrition approach uses a variety of detox diets, ranging from juice cleanses to more comprehensive detox regimens. She also works with her clients to develop custom nutrition plans to fit their specific goals and needs and her holistic approach to health and wellness helps her clients to take control of their lives and make lasting changes.
Ribas has found another emerging focus on community service and education for underrepresented communities. Toward this end, Ribas has already been planning programs that will allow her to reach those underrepresented people who may not have access to the financial or medical resources they need to maintain a healthy diet.
Ribas mentions that new mission to educate under-served people about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the power of nutrition is the latest chapter in her life’s goal to transform lives through a proven nutrition approach that she finds is helping more and more people around her envision and actually reach their health and wellness goals. Such is the path of a revolutionary nutritionist.
