
Lily Nichols
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and critical of outdated dietary guidelines.
She is co-founder of the Women’s Health Nutrition Academy and the author of two books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily’s bestselling books have helped tens of thousands of mamas (and babies!), are used in university-level maternal nutrition and midwifery courses, and have even influenced prenatal nutrition policy internationally. She writes at https://lilynicholsrdn.com
Lily’s Books
Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition – Lily Nichols
Real Food for Gestational Diabetes: An Effective Alternative to the Conventional Nutrition Approach – Lily Nichols
Lily’s Top Tips
- Make your breakfast – breaking your fast something that isn’t going to spike your blood sugar
- No naked carbs
- Get to bed earlier
Resources Mentioned
Sally Fallon
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects – Weston A Price
Weston A. Price Foundation
California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program
Lily’s Blogs
Why I Drank the Glucola
https://lilynicholsrdn.com/why-i-drank-the-glucola/
I Failed The Glucola
https://lilynicholsrdn.com/i-failed-the-glucola/
Lily’s Sourdough Bread
https://lilynicholsrdn.com/sourdough/
CGM Experiment: What I learned as a non diabetic from wearing a constant glucose monitor
https://lilynicholsrdn.com/cgm-experiment-non-diabetic-continuous-glucose-monitor/
Quotes by Lily Nichols
“I was observing how poorly the guidelines were working for my clients so I say did they fail diet therapy or did diet therapy fail them?”
“I talk about gestational diabetes being like the warning light coming on in your car because it is a sign that your body has trouble adapting to an increase in insulin resistance.“
“It is not fate or destiny that you are going to develop Type 2 Diabetes”
“It’s not just immediately at birth or in those first few days that can affect baby’s ability to manage blood sugar, the rest of their life”
“Babies are meant to be in ketosis when they are born“
Connect with Lily Nichols on social media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilyNicholsRDN
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PilatesNutritionist/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilynicholsrdn/
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