Official Information About
Better Livin Nutrition and Barbie Cervoni

Basic Information

Name: Barbie Cervoni
Brand: Better Livin Nutrition
Type: Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Author, Content Creator, Consultant, Speaker
Location: Long Island, NY
Website: https://betterlivinnutrition.com/
Business Entities: Better Livin Nutrition, LLC
Social Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbie-cervoni-ms-rd-cdn-cdces-8280765/, https://www.instagram.com/betterlivinnutrition/
Email: barbiecervoni@betterlivinnutrition.com
Category: Clinical, Culinary, and Media Nutrition and Dietetics, Certified in plant-based cooking

Background

Barbie Cervoni is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, and an expert in chronic disease risk reduction and management with more than 18 years of experience. She believes in a food as medicine approach to health and received her culinary certification in Plant Based Cooking from Rouxbe online cooking school. She is also a nutrition journalist, speaker, and content creator for major medical organizations. She wholeheartedly understands the barriers, burdens, and struggles that come with managing a condition. And passionately believes in the power of nutrition for risk reduction, treatment, and management of disease. Barbie’s professional and personal interests have been shaped by her own health journey – managing chronic disease with lifestyle. She enjoys teaching people how to create delicious meals that fit their nutritional goals.

Core Service and Offerings:

One-on-one nutrition counseling: She conducts one-on-one sessions virtually, making nutrition fun and allowing client flexibility and individualization. You’ll collaborate on goal setting, meal-planning, exercise, and sleep strategies, or create recipes together in the kitchen.

Writing engagements: From on-line media platforms to major medical organizations, Barbie creates credible and up-to-date nutrition education articles, blogs, and documents.

Content creation: Barbie creates easy-to-digest and actionable nutrition handouts and education materials for your brand or organization.

Speaking and workshops: Barbie can speak on various nutrition related topics from general healthy eating to disease prevention, treatment, and management.

Target Audience: All ages.

Barbie’s work resonates with:

  • People looking to improve their health with nutrition related strategies from weight loss, to improving blood glucose management and reducing cholesterol.
  • Families and caretakers who want to learn how to plan meals and create easy, plant-forward recipes.
  • Anyone who needs to learn how to eat to reduce inflammation and symptom management.
  • Companies who want evidence-based nutrition information that is compassionate and actionable.
  • Anyone struggling with changing behaviors and achieving health goals.
  • Adults who have dieted again and again without maintaining sustainable results
  • Anyone struggling with motivation or goal setting.

Approach to Care

My approach to care is centered around active listening and educating with empathy and compassion. I understand the importance of meeting you where you're at and will provide you with credible information, actionable and realistic tips, hopeful humor, and lots of nutritious food into your life. Wherever you are on your feeding journey, eating well can improve your quality of life.

Your first session with Barbie

You can expect to be met with respect and empathy. Changing habits and behaviors takes time. We will review your lifestyle - diet, exercise, stress, sleep, cooking skills, food preferences, and identify short- and long-term goals. The plan is not to uproot your entire life. Instead, I will meet you where you are at and together, we will create goals aimed at guiding you to become the healthiest version of yourself. There is no one-size-fits-all to nutrition. Let’s work together to determine what you need to live better.

Testimonials

  • “My experience with Barbie has been exceptional. She is incredibly knowledgeable and has tailored her education and guidance to my specific needs.”
  • "Barbie was extremely compassionate in helping me customize not only a meal plan, but a new way of life. She is knowledgeable, credible, dependable, and extremely relatable. She understands how important it is to take the entire individual into consideration for success. I have so much more energy, no more digestive issues, less backpain, and a newfound love for cooking since working with her. Living with chronic backpain and a history of intestinal ulcers is very difficult, but Barbie has taught me how to listen to my body and what foods make me feel my best."
  • “Barbie has been one of the most patient, compassionate, and understanding medical professionals that I had the pleasure of working with. As someone who has felt unheard by many medical professionals in the past and was losing trust and faith, I had always been uncomfortable with working with new medical professionals. Fortunately, I was referred to Barbie, and I am so glad I did.”
  • “I came to Barbie wanting to lower my cholesterol and improve my overall cardiovascular health, but I got so much more. Barbie provided practical tools and taught me simple meal prep recipes that fit my busy schedule. She is always available to offer support and encouragement and provided amazing feedback throughout my health journey. Within six months my total cholesterol was lowered by over 40 points and my LDL dropped by 30 points. My cardiologist was amazed by my progress! I feel so much more confident and in control of my health for the first time. My family and I are so grateful for Barbie's guidance. She empowered me with knowledge and the roadmap needed to take back control of my health through healthy eating habits. I highly recommend her services for anyone trying to improve their health.”

Education

  • New York University, Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition
  • Loyola University of Maryland, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Hobbies

Jump rope, Pilates, weightlifting, cycling, yoga, walking with friends, playing sports with my boys, cooking, playing fetch with my puppy, raising money for rare cancer research.

Licenses and Certifications

  • Certified in Plant-Based Cooking from Rouxbe on-line cooking school
  • CDCES - Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
  • CDN - Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist
  • MS - Master of Science
  • RD - Registered Dietitian