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Zonya Foco      

Celebrity Nutritionist & Cookbook Author

Thirty-year veteran Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Zonya Foco is one of the most exciting, inspiring, vital, and unforgettable speakers in America. Her high energy, crossed with low-maintenance solutions, makes healthy living fun and doable for all.

Known as America’s Nutrition Leader, Foco has been a guest presenter for “Oprah & Bob’s Best Life Challenge,” and is the host of "Zonya’s Health Bites," a weekly half-hour Public Television show. She is the author of the best-selling "Lickety-Split Meals" cookbook and the creator of the “No Diets, No Counting, No Kidding” DIET FREE lifestyle program, which was featured in a two-hour Public Television special and has transformed the health of worksite and community groups across the country. Foco most recently launched her “Gain REAL Health Eating REAL Food” campaign via her co-authored Eat REAL Cookbook, Eat REAL for Your Health wellness program, and EatRealAmerica.com recipe site.

Foco is a master of inspiration, motivation, and visual humor, providing vital presentations and programs that help everyday people improve health, create balance, and maximize energy. Whether delivering to audiences from the live stage or via live stream supported by professional in-house production, Foco pulls out all the stops – delivering equal parts entertainment and education all the way. Audiences laugh at their bad habits and break down the barriers that turn knowing into doing, creating readiness to skyrocket their stamina, productivity, and resistance to disease.

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Supercharge Your Conference

Looking to energize your conference and proclaim your commitment to health? Let Zonya SUPERCHARGE it! Add onto Zonya's Keynote or Break-out presentation with any one (or all!) of the following options.

Be Good to Your Sweet Heart (Heart-Health Focus)

Your heart beats for you constantly, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, year by year. Are you eating the best way you could be for your heart and cardiovascular system? There's so much more to heart health than just low-fat and low-cholesterol food. Get the inside scoop on fish; flax; fiber; garlic; and, of course, exercise. Sound intimidating? It doesn't have to be. Learn how to integrate these heart-healthy habits into a lifestyle the whole family will enjoy. Be good to your sweet heart - after all, it's good to you!

Fit Families for Life (For Parents & Kids)

Zonya Foco knows it isn't always easy getting kids (or adults for that matter) to eat healthily and exercise well. She also believes that the fastest way to fight childhood obesity is through parents. Her "Fit Families for Life" presentation is the perfect opportunity for parents and kids to learn together and discover how healthy habits can be a fun family affair. Leave it to Zonya Foco's zany visuals and engaging style plus healthy "family competitions" to transform the fussiest eaters into junior - and senior - champions of good health and fitness. Laugh and learn together as she introduces crafty, creative, and successful ways to make good nutrition and exercise easy and fun for the entire Fit Families for Life (FFL) Team!

Surefire Solutions for De-Stressing & Balancing Your Life

You have a good life, but maybe you just have too much of a good thing. If you're too busy, too tired, and too stressed, Zonya Foco has surefire solutions that will bring balance to your life and a bounce to your step.

When you're ready to get a grip, Foco will show you how to start by simply letting go. So take a deep breath and get ready to laugh out loud as you learn the restorative power of saying the word "no." If, on the other hand, you have trouble saying "yes" to exercise, Zonya will share her secrets for ways to make working out work for you. (Yes, you really can sneak exercise into your daily routine.)

Stress is more than a state of mind, it's a person without a plan for actually living stress free. Now's the time to settle back as Zonya Foco serves up stress-reducing strategies to simplify your life. Find out what ingredients a stress-free kitchen must have; learn what foods can turn the tables on your stress level; and reclaim your right to live a healthy, vibrant life filled with energy and joy.

The Power of One Good Habit

How can we ditch the diet mentality yet still eat healthfully to combat obesity, heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and cancer? Let America's nutrition leader show you how the tiniest, painless habits, when done daily, can add up to a huge change in the way you look and feel. Make a different choice here, add a little movement there. Without dieting or deprivation, you can rev up your metabolism, drop your blood pressure, lose 50 pounds or take 50 points off your cholesterol in just one year!

The math is really quite simple. It's you and the complete adaptation of one good habit after another that adds up to success, which adds up to a lower number on the scale and a much healthier you!

Ignite Your Worksite & Community Wellness

Zonya Foco, RD, explains her diet-free approach to igniting healthy lifestyle changes in your employees and your community. Her ten-week video seminar program, Diet Free: The Eight Habits That Will Change Your Life, is being utilized by hospitals and health centers across the country and has brought hope, joy, and life-saving success into the lives of its participants. This robust nutrition and fitness program relies on her ability to deliver equal parts entertainment and education while inspiring her participants to change their lives forever. In fact, many have said that adopting a healthier lifestyle has never been easier or more fun! Come learn more about the power behind Zonya Foco's eight habits - and about the freedom of living diet free!

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Staying Healthy in a Culture that’s ANYTHING BUT!

Addictive foods, bucket-sized portions, physical movement limited to keystrokes and remotes. It's hard to stay healthy in a culture that's anything but! By citing research, reviewing health trends and examining the power of advertising, Zonya explains how our culture is very much the enemy - zapping our energy, health and productivity. Is America doomed as a result of our society of convenience, or can we fight back? Conviction is key! From simple strategies to re-wire the brain for healthier food preferences to capturing the power of "community" for lasting lifestyle changes, Zonya delivers a compelling plan for embracing a healthy lifestyle "paradigm shift" to conviction over convenience.

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Presentation Skills for Dietitians

Obesity/Weight Loss

Heart Health

Fad Diets for the General Public

Fad Diets for Professionals

Eating Right on the Run

Diabetes

Cooking Demos

Parents

Children's Nutrition/Childhood Obesity for

Childhood Obesity for Health Professionals

Cancer

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