{"id":6888,"date":"2018-01-26T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vitaminpacks.com\/blog\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:03:06","slug":"nutritionist-spotlight-leah-keeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/nutritionist-spotlight-leah-keeney\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritionist Spotlight &#8211; Leah Keeney"},"content":{"rendered":"Leah KeeneyBachelor Food Science and NutritionWhen did you know you wanted to study nutrition?\u201cWhen I was little I was always in the kitchen baking and making my own food experiments with substitutions. It wasn\u2019t until high school when I started wondering why there weren\u2019t healthier alternatives and substitutions in baked goods. I then started experimenting with healthy fat alternatives in baked goods, wrote a research article and won a college scholarship with it!\u201d\u00a0What was your favorite course during your nutrition studies and why?\u201cMy favorite course was Nutrition Education. We got to be creative in developing nutrition lesson plans. These lesson plans ranged from teaching yoga classes to food prep with children. We also went to the local food bank and did food demos to the community.\u201dWhat was one academic accomplishment you are proud of?\u201cI was on the Deans List the last 2 years of college.\u201dIf you could expand your expertise on one topic, what would it be?\u201cI would love to learn more on herbal and homeopathic medicines.\u201dEven nutritionists love junk food &#8211; what is your guilty pleasure?\u201cIce Cream! And wine?\u201dWhat do you like to do in your free time?\u201cSnuggle with my dog, Sherman.\u201dWhat is the scariest thing you have ever done? \u201cTackled a bank robber.\u201d *Winks sarcastically*What is the coolest thing you are ever done?\u201cTraveled through Italy, French Riviera and Spain!\u201d\u00a0What motto do you live by?\u201cI try and take life day-by-day and not worry too much about the future.\u201dIf you are looking for the highest quality Vitamin and Mineral Supplements personalized for you, please go to www.personanutrition.com and take their on-line questionnaire providing individualized vitamin and mineral recommendations. Persona is the only Science Based supplement provider on the web today! Take advantage of their knowledge and use it to your health\u2019s benefit!This information is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional or any information contained on or in any product label or packaging. Do not use the information from this article for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing medication or other treatment. Always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal or homeopathic supplement, or using any treatment for a health problem. If you have or suspect that you have a medical problem, contact your health care provider promptly. Do not disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking professional advice because of something you have read in this article.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah Keeney Bachelor Food Science and Nutrition &nbsp; When did you know you wanted to study nutrition? \u201cWhen I was little I was always in the kitchen baking and making my own food experiments with substitutions. It wasn\u2019t until","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[986],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nutritionists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8580,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions\/8580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}