About Your Nutritionist
Holly Kalinka, RN, BSN, MSNE
Hi there! I am Holly, a Registered Nurse and Nutritionist who loves food and loves educating. When I first began my career as a nurse, I realized that food, exercise, health and disease were incredibly intertwined. I also realized how much misinformation there is surrounding food and health, including mental health! I became passionate about educating about the dynamic aspects of food - as fuel, comfort, in culture, socially, but most importantly as a science.
Having a Bachelors degree in Nursing has helped me realize the value of evidence-based practice. This means weeding out all the diet-culture propaganda and getting back to the basics of what food is, how our bodies use it, and why it is important. Having a Masters degree in Nutrition Education helps me tie it all together.
It is about creating a lasting, positive relationship with food based in scientific evidence of what will make us healthier - mind, body, and soul.
Through evidence-based science, I want to educate others on long term nutrition and lifestyle habits for better mental, emotional, and physical health.
My Approach
LIVE IT
A number of years ago, I chose to get in tune with my body and begin really listening to what it needed. Often our mind - our anxiety, our pressures, our expectations- lie to us. But rarely does our body lie, if only we learn how to listen. I paid close attention to what made my body feel good and what didn’t serve me and I began to prioritize my lifestyle decisions around what worked best for me.
I wanted to know why diets didn’t make me feel good when the media promoted them so heavily. I wanted to know why the foods that were often labeled ‘bad’ actually were making me feel more energetic. So I combined my personal experience with scientific evidence about what food is, how our bodies use it, and why we need it.
Now I want to share my knowledge with you.
Dream it
My dream is for nutrition knowledge to be accessible to everyone. Challenging concepts made simple, manageable actions to take, and consistent scientific growth can lead to a better nourished culture mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Build it
By starting with science, we can eliminate some of the confusion surrounding nutrients and food and make that information available to all. I want to step away from diet-culture through evidence-based recommendations that encompass the whole person.
