Food is Medicine and Food is Love with Angelique Santana
What if you lost 25 pounds in 28 days? How would that change your life?
That’s where Angelique Santana found herself in 2012 when she switched to a vegan diet halfway through her health coach certification. That experience, along with her passion for preparing and cooking raw vegan meals, put her on the path of transforming lives as a personal chef.
Now, her book and her business guide others toward a healthy lifestyle, starting with the food they eat. And she’s here to discuss how and talk about her journey from the world of fitness to food.
In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn about how food has the power to heal not just our bodies but also our relationships. You’ll also discover the link between food and pleasure and why food can be such a controversial subject.
4:45 - How Angelique transitioned from a focus on fitness to food
9:22 - How Angelique knew it was time for her to get off the “tried and true” path of culinary school
13:08 - The parallel between my MBA pursuit and Angelique’s culinary school experience
21:51 - Why food is controversial, how Angelique runs her business, and her goal for her clients
26:55 - Why food tends to be one of our portals to pleasure
30:09 - The importance of women/caregivers to take care of themselves first
33:00 - How food and being back home have helped Angelique’s relationship with her mom
40:40 - Where Angelique wants to take her journey within the next few years
About Angelique Santana
Angelique is the founder of Eat With Angelique, the small business she launched with a singular mission in mind - to guide people toward a healthy lifestyle starting, but not ending, with the food they eat. She is a speaker, a coach, and the author of Food Is Love: there are no rules in food and love, and a coach.
After graduating from the College of NJ, Angelique spent 15 years in fitness working for industry leaders such as Bally Total Fitness and Equinox. In 2012, she earned her Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Halfway through the program, Angelique went vegan for 28 days and lost twenty-five pounds. This experience, combined with Angelique’s newfound passion for preparing cooked and raw vegan meals inspired her to start her own business as a personal chef, transforming lives through food, one bite at a time.
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