LINDA ARPINO, CDN, RDN, FAND CEO Life Focus Nutrition Centers, INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER ON PLANT BASED, SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION & HEALTH
Linda Arpino is a registered and certified dietitian nutritionist and CEO of her private practice, Life Focus Nutrition, LLC in Rye Brook, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Arpino private practice goes beyond chronic disease prevention helping families understand the connection of their choices on their health and environmental impacts. Her specialties are weight management, cardiovascular health, diabetes & cancer prevention and sports nutrition using a plant based approach.Ms. Arpino provides nutrition consultation to children, teens, and adults with diverse cultural differences.
2023-2024 she served as a president of the Connecticut Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics expanding her states initiatives on hunger, cultural diversity, plant based sustainable food systems, and chronic disease prevention. As past delegate for the Vegetarian Nutrition Practice group she advocated that the House of Delegates address integrating sustainable food systems into Future Practice. She was the lead author in creating vegan and lacto-ovo menus for all diets in the Academy Nutrition Care Manual. In collaboration with other Academy members, she worked on an investigative project, published the manuscript in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, “Clinical and Cost Benefit of Medical Nutrition Therapy by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists for Management of Dyslipidemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Fall 2019, Linda completed a chapter in an international medical text, entitled, ‘Reflux Cure: Transitioning to a Plant Based Diet from SAD: Standard American Diet. She is also the author of Eat Fit/ Be Fit: Solutions for Weight Management and Health and Recipes for Health Nutrition Curriculum for Young Autistic Adults.
She has served on numerous Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) Evidence Analysis Library workgroups and past co-author of Guidelines for Pediatric Overweight and Guidelines for Healthy Children, and Pediatric Overweight. She is known for her presentations on those topics and has presented at FNCE on PCOS & Reimbursement.
As a motivational speaker, she offers timely evidence-based nutrition information that focuses on nutrition in chronic disease prevention in diverse cultural populations. In media, Linda was Media spokesperson for NYS, and has appeared on television and radio on timely nutrition topics.
She enjoys adding nutrition accurate evidence based nutrition information on social media.