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AAPI’S NUTRITION GUIDE TO OPTIMAL HEALTH: USING PRINCIPLES OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE AND NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS
The IFMNT Radial is a valuable clinical tool for
21 st
-century health care. It is a dynamic compass
that integrates both evidence-based and practicebased
concepts. It allows the clinician to draw
from the individual’s unique story and offers a
whole systems process to prioritize and personalize
nutrition therapy.
Kathie Madonna Swift is a leading educator,
innovator and practitioner in the field of integrative
nutrition and founder of SwiftNutrition.com. She
was recently named by Today’s Dietitian as one
of the top Registered Dietitians in the country who
are ‚making a difference‛. Kathie was also
featured in the ebook, Top 10 Nutrition Pros
Share Their Secrets because of her significant
accomplishments in holistic nutrition.
Kathie has been the core curriculum consultant
and co-designer of Food As Medicine since the
programs founding in 2001. She is the Chief
Nutrition Advisor for www.myfoodmyhealth.com, an
online program that provides customized meal
plans for individuals with various health conditions,
and created www.myfoundationdiet.com, a gluten
and dairy free food plan and a FODMAPs friendly
eating plan available through
www.myfoodmyhealth.com.
Kathie also shares her passion for the power of
food as a teacher of Healthy Living Programs at
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge,
MA. She is the Senior Nutrition Advisor for the
Optimal Health and Prevention Research
Foundation in San Diego, California.
Kathie spearheaded the pioneering functional
medicine program at Canyon Ranch in the
Berkshires, where she served as Nutrition Director
for more than a decade and created the
‚Nutritional Intelligence‛ dietary guidelines which
were presented at the White House Commission
on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.
In 2005, Kathie joined Dr. Mark Hyman to help
establish the UltraWellness Center, where she was
the Nutrition Director for three years and continues
to practice today, working with individuals with
chronic, complex health problems.
Kathie is on the faculty at Saybrook University as
an Instructor in the country’s first graduate
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program in Mind Body Medicine. She also
teaches for the graduate program in Nutrition and
Integrative Health at Tai Sophia Institute.
Kathie sits on the Scientific Advisory board for
Free and Clear Mind Body Program for Corporate
Wellness, the Advisory Board for the Integrative
Healthcare Symposium, Martha Stewarts Whole
Living Magazine and is an alumni of the Nutrition
Advisory Board of the Institute for Functional
Medicine. She served as the inaugural Chair of
Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine
(DIFM), a dietetic practice group of the Academy
of Nutrition and Dietetics representing dietitians in
holistic, complementary and alternative medicine.
Kathie also served as a member of the Standards
of Practice/Standards of Professional Performance
(SOP/SOPP) for Integrative RDs. She has
participated in Nutrition Roundtables at the Harvard
School of Public Health and participated in medical
school education programs at Georgetown
University Medical School and Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine.
Kathie serves on the editorial board for Integrative
Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal and has been a
scientific reviewer for Alternative Therapies in
Health and Medicine. Her articles and interviews
have been published in Nutrition in Clinical
Practice, Experience Life, Yoga Journal , Healing
Lifestyles and Spas, Body + Soul, Alternative
Medicine, USA Today, Martha Stewart’s Whole
Living, Epicurious, CNN, and others.
Kathie recently co-authored a chapter on adverse
food reactions in Krause’s Food and the Nutrition
Care Process, Elsevier, 2012. She is also the
co-author of The Inside Tract: Your Good Gut
Guide to Great Digestive Health with Gerard E.
Mullin, MD, Rodale Press, 2011.
Contact Kathie at swiftnutrition@gmail.com
Website: www.swiftnutrition.com
References:
Redmond, E., Swift KM, Noland D. DIFM Unveils
the IFMNT Radial. Dietitians in Integrative and
Functional Medicine Newsletter. 2011;14:S2-S3.
2012