Melissa Hauptman
2025 Update: Hi! I’m so excited to share that on my own food and health journey, I’ve chosen to work towards my certification in Health Coaching through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I officially complete my year long course this summer, but I’m able to work with new clients now. In fact, I’ve started doing that already, and I’m loving it! If you want to take a chance on a newbie like me, and welcome me into your health journey, I promise to hear you, to see you, to support you and to share any strategies you seek towards a healthful existence that FEELS SO GOOD. Check out my Services page and cheers to an AMAZING 2025!
Hi! I’m excited to finally be living my passion – learning and sharing the incredible power of our earth and how it can impact our health. I’m hoping to use the skills I learned earning my MS/MBA at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and during my 20 year career to affect change. So, on this new journey into food, I’ve decided to write, to speak, and to share to help us all live healthy lives – from soil to soul.
Our systems and institutions control what food is produced and in what form we find it on our grocery store shelves. But the science has advanced well beyond the information that directs those systems. We know more about vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals to help us thrive and fight disease. We know that food can be medicine to heal our bodies. We know that chemical agriculture, food processing, and artificial additives act as toxins in our bodies.
The institutions and corporations that provide all our food have access to the same information and are not doing enough about it. So we are a sick nation. I’m writing this blog to update and inform – you have the power to affect change in your life, in your community and in your country to make us healthy.
Consumer knowledge, investment and policy are the main levers in redirecting our food systems to be about not just sustaining us, but helping us live healthy and high quality lives. We all deserve that! So I’m hoping to contribute to the consumer knowledge lever. Please share what you find valuable here with people you love. It’s a great way to show that love!