Jennifer Adler understands firsthand how powerful food is in the healing process. Throughout her life she has suffered a litany of illnesses: malnutrition, parasites, heavy metal toxicity, anemia, hypoglycemia and debilitating digestive disorders. By age 20 her health was so bad that she had two choices: suffer a short, painful life like her mother, who died of cancer at age 44, or somehow make a monumental change and completely overhaul her health.

She chose health, and today is a nationally recognized nutrition expert (as seen on ABC's Nightline), and the founder and owner of Passionate Nutrition, a rapidly growing nutrition practice with offices throughout the Northwest. Jennifer will share her unique approach to health in her upcoming book, Passionate Nutrition, due out in winter of 2015.

Jennifer is a Nutritionist with a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Counseling, co-founder of the International Eating Disorders Institute and an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Spirituality, Health and Medicine from Bastyr University, and was trained at the School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Co.

This power foods healthy living guidebook will inspire readers will eat well, lose weight, and embrace food as medicine. "Food as medicine" is a powerfully healing way to eat and was embraced by nutritionist Jennifer Adler as she recovered from a malnour­ished childhood and adolescence.

Part power-foods cookbook, part handbook for healthy living and eating, and part memoir, Passionate Nutrition provides digestible information, tips, and techniques for how to find your way to optimal health. She focuses on abundant eat­ing (as opposed to restrictive eating), and explores what she calls "the healthy trinity"—digestion, balance, and whole foods.

Adler guides and encourages readers to shift their diet to achieve this desirable bal­ance, introduces power foods we should all eat, and provides healthy ways to lose weight, along with simple recipes to optimize health. With her personal story interwoven, readers will be inspired to embrace the healthy power of food.