Zonya Foco

Zonya Foco Speaker Biography

America’s Nutrition Leader

Zonya lives healthy out-loud by championing the very lifestyle habits that are known to magnify health. With humor, passion and eye-popping demos and stories, Zonya turns light bulbs on, and keeps them shining well beyond the end of her programs.

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Thirty-year veteran Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Zonya Foco is one of the most exciting, inspiring, vital and unforgettable speakers in America. Her high energy crossed with low maintenance solutions makes healthy living fun and doable for all.

America’s Nutrition Leader

Known as America’s Nutrition Leader, Zonya has been a guest presenter for “Oprah & Bob’s Best Life Challenge,” and is the host of Zonya’s Health Bites, a weekly half-hour Public Television show. She is the author of the best-selling Lickety-Split Meals cookbook, and the creator of the “No diets, No counting, No kidding” DIET FREE lifestyle program, which was featured in a two-hour Public Television special and has transformed the health of worksite and community groups across the country. Zonya most recently launched her “Gain REAL Health Eating REAL Food” campaign via her co-authored Eat REAL Cookbook, Eat REAL for Your Health wellness program, and EatRealAmerica.com recipe site.

Onstage and Online Speaker

As America’s Nutrition Leader, Zonya Foco, RDN is a master of inspiration, motivation and visual humor, providing vital presentations and programs that help everyday people improve health, create balance and maximize energy. Whether delivering to audiences from the live stage, or via livestream supported by professional in-house production, Zonya pulls out all the stops – delivering equal parts entertainment and education all the way. Audiences laugh at their bad habits and break down the barriers that turn knowing into doing, creating readiness to skyrocket their stamina, productivity, and resistance to disease.

Nutritionist, Author, TV Host, Program Creator

Formerly a Clinical Nutritionist at the Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, she left healthcare to publish her “fastest way to healthy” cookbook, Lickety-Split Meals, which has sold nearly a quarter-million copies. In 2005, she began her national Public Television series, Zonya’s Health Bites, providing simple solutions for everyday health and fitness. In 2012, she launched her lifestyle program, DIET FREE, which has been so successful, it was chosen by Public Television for a two-hour special. In 2018, Zonya partnered to bring her co-authored Eat REAL Cookbook, EatRealAmerica.com recipe site and Eat REAL for Your Health lifestyle program to individuals and worksites as inspiration to “replace processed food with wholesome.”

Corporate Wellness Partner

Zonya has collaborated with Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of Michigan to develop and present its distinguished Weight Wise member programs based on her DIET FREE habits. She has also worked with Bob Greene as a guest presenter for “Oprah & Bob’s Best Life Challenge,” providing entertaining and educational cooking presentations. Most recently, Zonya has developed and presented livestreamed series on the topics of Boost Your Immune System and Dodging Diabetes Deliciously from her studio kitchen, demonstrating in-the-kitchen skills that move the needle on health outcomes for individuals, families and corporate groups.

Media

In addition to spreading the word through her live and livestream speaking platforms, books, TV show and wellness programs, Zonya has appeared on local newscasts across the country, nationally syndicated daytime talk shows and QVC. She has been published in the popular magazines Prevention, Today’s Dietitian, Total Health, and Fast and Healthy Cooking.

Zonya Foco Speaking Topics

Get Your Healthy On!

Are you concerned about heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s or want to lose weight? Wondering if the villain is fat, sugar or carbs? Discover what REALLY matters to your health, including how to combine all the benefits of low-carb, Paleo, keto AND plant-based eating into a single REAL food plan that’s doable for life. Watch and be inspired as Zonya guides you through a full day of typical meal choices, demonstrating simple REAL food trade-ups that will delight your appetite while getting you into your skinny jeans! You’ll also gain serious resolve to “Find your Fitness Love,” making this the year your doctor says, “What have you been doing? Your numbers are great!” This awe-inspiring session is filled with fun and laughs. Come ready to Get Your Healthy On – REAL food style!

Light Beer and Baked Doritos: Am I Healthy Now?

The way you eat, drink, sleep and exercise fuels a fine racing machine, or NOT. Join Zonya as she shares how your productivity and career success depend largely on the quality of your self-maintenance. Learn how to be deliberate about your health with realistic, can-do solutions that produce measurable results. In this fast-paced keynote, you will learn: • Simple one habit-at-a-time strategies that re-wire your brain to crave the best-for-you fuel • How to properly hydrate and use caffeine to your benefit, not your detriment • How to sleep better without sleeping more • Why “sitting is the new smoking” and a simple trick to keep you moving and feeling great • It’s time to throttle up stamina, productivity, and resistance to disease, with simple sound strategies designed just for you!

Surefire Solutions to De-stress and Balance Life!

Stress isn’t bad for you. BAD stress is bad for you! Find out just which kind of stress you have, and how to leverage and balance each. Even if you’re too busy, too tired and too stressed, you’ll discover how to become your own ‘cortisol blocker’ with three solutions that work instantly to dial down the stress hormones that age you. Zonya will share her list of top stress-busting foods, surefire solutions for getting the restorative sleep you need, plus how to use music, laughter, positive thoughts and clear communications to truly de-stress and balance your life!

Health Hacks to Beat Diabetes

Some people with diabetes count carbohydrates and others follow exchanges. Some exercise and some don’t. Regardless of what you are currently doing, your health can soar with Zonya’s refreshing approach to managing diabetes. Make a different choice here, add a little movement there. Without strict dieting or deprivation, you can slash soaring blood sugars, lipid levels and unwanted pounds. Plus, Zonya answers your questions about sweet cravings, the glycemic index and artificial sweeteners. As the author of the DIET FREE Lifestyle program and Lickety-Split Diabetic Meals (American Diabetes Association), Zonya has the message and tools to health-hack your way to complete success!

Be Good to Your Sweet Heart

Your heart — it beats for you constantly, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, year by year. Is what you’re eating the best it can be for your heart and cardiovascular system? From anti-inflammatory foods to those high in antioxidants, there’s so much more to heart health than low-fat and low-cholesterol food. Get the inside scoop on fish, flax, fiber, coconut oil, chia seed, garlic, and of course, exercise. Sound intimidating? It doesn’t have to be. Learn how to integrate these heart-healthy habits into a lifestyle the whole family will enjoy. Be good to your sweet heart – after all, it’s good to you!

Excelling at Your Career without Undermining Your Health

Is your job hijacking your energy, stamina and resistance to disease by forcing your self-care to the back burner? It’s Zonya to the rescue with her nine-point plan that blasts through the “no time to be healthy” roadblock. You’ll get the competitive edge with simple strategies to sneak in exercise and consume foods that work like high-octane fuel to increase your energy and focus. Discover desk-drawer delights and briefcase bites that will help trim your waistline while dropping your risk for the big killers like heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. You can be your best possible self at work and at home. Right now is a great time to start!