How we can set realistic diet and health goals – Siv Sjöholm

Podcast Synopsis:

Former international model and founder of Success Is Vitality (SIV) Siv Sjöholm joins the show. She gives some helpful tips as consumers, what are some traps and how can we readjust to beginning a healthy lifestyle in 2011 and much more.

Siv Sjöholm is a certified Holistic Health Counselor, Nutritionist, Interactive Lecturer and founder of Success Is Vitality (SIV), a personalized integrative nutritional and health counseling program designed to radically improve one’s life, resolve concerns specific to the body and provide tools for a lifetime of balance delivering meaningful and lasting results. Siv’s program is designed around the belief that by becoming healthier, other areas of life such as relationships, career and creativity start to improve. Through naturally beginning to crave the foods and activities that make us feel better, we will feel more motivated to make time in our lives for those things that are truly important.

Siv has studied all the major dietary theories, from eastern to western medicine, and integrated traditional nutrition philosophies with modern health concepts.  She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, certified by Columbia University and accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.  Siv’s demonstrated expertise lays in helping her clients figure out what works best for them. Siv believes the food we eat makes the difference and affects all areas of our lives.

Based in Chicago, Siv helps clients all over the world transform their lives and their direction. She has appeared in magazines and on television across the globe, including serving as a special guest speaker/lecturer on The Next TOP Model, Finland (April 2009).  Clients include businesses, institutions and corporations, celebrities from the fashion industry and professional athletes – all having one goal in common: to raise their well-being, success and health to perform at an optimal level. Siv has also spent more than a decade working as an international model with agencies including Ford Models (Chicago, Miami and San Francisco), IMG Models (New York, Paris and London), Louisa Models (Hamburg and Munich), SS&M Models (Barcelona), Why Not Models (Milan), Stockholms Gruppen Models (Stockholm) and Paparazzi Models (Helsinki). Through her work and activities across the world, accompanied by her fluency in Swedish, Finnish, French and English, Siv has been able to integrate nutritional components into lifestyle and cultural collaborations, evidencing better relationships for each client in their work, family and play environments.