The Ultimate Nutrition Plan For Wheelchair Users
Former (world’s first) professional wheelchairmodel | Graced the pages of Playboy magazine in 1996 | International bestselling author, of a.o: The deeper secret, The Secret within, The power of acceptance | Entrepreneur | speaker | Plant-based nutrition advocate | Best selling author of a.o The Sitting Chef and The Sit Smart Diet (SSD) | Founder and director of AM Lifestyle Medicine Center | Co-founder and board member of the Dutch Society of Lifestyle Medicine | Chief Editor of the Dutch Journal of Lifestyle Medicine | Happily married | Mom of 8 furry kids
Join the sitting health diet revolution!
A wheelchair life affects many body systems, and leads to many secondary health complications, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, digestion- and bowel problems, poorly-healing wounds, fatique and depression.
The Sit Smart Diet is the first ever evidence-based whole food plant based nutrition program to address the unique needs of people with spinal cord injury (and those who have to rely on a wheelchair as a result of another neurological disorder).
Take back control over your health. Live better, look better, and feel better – and prepare to change your life, one delicious bite at a time!
With this funny and delicious recipe, there is really no excuse for not eating vegetables! Surprise your family and friends this Christmas with these delicious and original brussels sprouts pralines! Great as a dessert with a nice port or dessert wine. I’m quite sure you’ll be positively surprised! What you’ll need: 500 gr brussels sprouts […]
This egg-free egg salad is something incredible. And that is because of the special dark Kala Namak salt. This salt is also called “Indian Black Salt”. It is pure and unrefined black salt with a unique, sulfuric taste that tastes like boiled eggs. I usually make this egg salad with chickpeas but sometimes with tofu, […]
The Sit Smart Diet & Eating Plan uses the latest scientific research to provide state-of-the-art dietary guidelines for effective and sustainable weight management, and to help address secondary health conditions in SCI through nutrition.
Annemarie de Vries-Postma and Dr. Kees Hein Woldendorp
An evidence-based approach to address the unique needs and health challenges of people with SCI through nutrition.
What exactly happens in your body when you end up in a wheelchair? How do you stay slim, healthy and fit? How do you prevent and treat the most common secondary conditions in SCI with diet?
The Sit Smart Diet is the first evidence-based, practical, useful and important nutritional guide for wheelchair users, as well as their families, friends, caregivers, health care- and medical professionals.
We need this!
(Deborah Davis, Writer, Speaker, and owner of Push Living Inc.)
Expected to be available from april 2020
The first book to address the health risks of a sedentary lifestyle with diet
So far, the health risks of excessive sitting (obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease) have solely been approached by science from the lack of exercise.
Annemarie de Vries-Postma is the first to bring change to this through the introduction of a new evidence-based, nutritional model: the Sit Smart Diet.
With this book, she proves that you can lose weight without exercising more.
A groundbreaking book, for anyone who sits all day!
(Kris Verburgh, MD, author of The Food Hourglass)
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After years of chronic bowel problems, nausea, frequent after-dinner vomiting, abdominal pain, an incredible amount of medication and a desperate quest for solutions, The Sit Smart Diet crossed her path. Now Ellen de Boer (58) finally has her appetite back, and most of her symptoms are greatly reduced or have even completely disappeared. “I eat […]
If you’re on a plant based diet and do not eat meat and dairy, like more and more people do, people often talk directly about the 3 alleged nutrient deficiencies: calcium, B12 and iron. But did you know that the vast majority of meat and dairy eaters do not have just just 2 or 3 […]
Proton-pump inhibitors; many wheelchair users use them and many of us use them even for years. That’s unfortunately not without risk. The reason that they are prescribed is usually the lack of real knowledge about nutrition and lifestyle medicine (that is very new and unknown territory in the first place for the vast majority of […]
Let lifestyle be your medicine
In 2017 Annemarie founded AM Lifestyle Medicine Center; the first center for comprehensive lifestyle intervention (CLI) in The Netherlands. We provide an array of services to individuals who want to lose weight, reverse type 2 diabetes, heart disease and adopt a healthy lifestyle.
We also specialize in the health hazards of excessive sitting (“sitting disease”), and the many common, recurring and potentially life-threatening secondary health conditions of spinal cord injury (or a wheelchair bound life because of other neurological causes).
Awareness is the first step in healing. Our lifestyle medicine specialists work in partnership with you to help you make informed healthier food- and lifestyle choices, and make the connection between what you eat and do, and how you feel.
Make an appointment.