Media Interviews
Being Well with Julie Stiles Podcast
Are You Following a Diet or a Lifestyle? (2017)
Rush University Medical Center
Make Your Diet Greener (2015)
Sample These Superfoods (2014)
Learning to Eat Well, Love Better, Move More (2012)
How to Determine Your Target Heart Rate (2011)
ABC Nightline News
Gyms For Overweight Members Only (2013)
CBS Local
Dieticians Offer A Few Tricks To Help You Lose Weight (2013)
What Is The Best Milk Option For You? (2012)
Some Snacks Do Not Live UpTo Their Healthy Reputations (2012)
Crain's Chicago Business
Kraft faces what-is-it question with breakfast biscuit launch (2012)
Self Magazine
7 Rules to Snacking (2011)
Medscape Online
Giving Good Nutritional Advice in Brief Clinical Encounters: An Expert Interview With Jennifer Ventrelle, MS, RD, LDN, CPT (2010)
Huffington Post
The Flat Belly Food You Don’t Know About: Kefir (2009)
Chicago Tribune
Seven Sinful Snacks (2009)
Projects
Rush University Medical Center
The ELM Program: Eat Well, Love Better, Move More
The ELM Program is an innovative lifestyle change program created by a multidisciplinary team of practitioners at Rush. The program was designed to help improve the health of patients aiming to prevent diabetes and heart disease. Participants of the program lost weight, improved blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduced stress in their daily lives. Healthy living is not about deprivation; it's about enjoying life.
The MIND Diet Intervention to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
The MIND Diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets. Researchers have found that the two older diets provide protection against dementia as well. The MIND Trial is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years.
First Study of Diet's Impact on Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease begins in January (2017)