Deeply concerned with America's rampant obesity and chronic health issues and driven by a successful determination to overcome her earlier battle with a sugar addiction, poor eating and lifestyle habits, Rochelle Blank-Zimmer, has emerged as an engaging spokesperson, health counselor, writer and artist on Holistic Health,Wellness and Sustainable Green Lifestyle Choices.
Without a doubt, from her perspective, dangerous health conditions have resulted from the bond of secrecy jointly shared by the food industry, pharmaceutical companies, government supported agencies and media which keeps people ignorant about the dangers lurking in their daily diet of processed, chemicalized and sugar drenched foods. She is keenly aware of the mind body connection and it's relationship to health.
Rochelle graduated from New York University, in NYC. She went on to earn a degree from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York City where she had the pleasure of studying with top leading professionals in the field of nutrition and wellness. Additionally she earned a certificate in Health counseling from the Teachers College Columbia University in New York City.
Now a certified Holistic Health Counselor, and Owner of Your Natural Choice. Rochelle passionately speaks about how people of all ages can reclaim and maintain optimum health through out their lives by eating whole and live foods and embracing activities that support and inspire their well being. She spreads her life saving wisdom through private counseling, writing, public speaking and vegetarian, vegan and raw food cooking classes.
Enjoy Rochelle's blogabout nourishing yourself called YOUR NATURAL CHOICE that she writes for the Princeton Packet Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
Rochelle also writes a column for the Princeton Packet Newspaper called GO NATURAL as well as writing for the examiner.com as the Central Jersey Holistic Health Examiner
YOUR NATURAL CHOICE
Central Jersey Holistic Health Examiner
Testimonials
Immediately during my first consultation with Rochelle Blank, I knew she was not just a health counselor but a gifted intuitive with the heart and soul of a healer. She impressed me with a wide array of knowledge and an ability to communicate with clarity and purpose, revealing essential life enhancing information. I am very thankful to have had the opportunity to work with her.
Judith Sherven, PHD, Las Vegas, Neveda; Author of The Magic of Differences, The New Intimacy and Opening to Love 365 Days a Year.
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When I first began working with Rochelle, I was unhappy with my eating habits, taking medication to control high blood pressure, and frustrated with my family's addiction to sugar and junk food.
Six months later I am 10 pounds lighter and eating lots of wonderful, delicious, healthy food. My blood pressure has dropped to below normal, and my doctor has indicated that I may no longer need medication. Most amazing of all, my family is abandoning junk food for organic fruits and eating more veggies and they never even met Rochelle!
Signing up with A Natural Choice is one of the best things I have ever done for myself. Rochelle is fun, smart, patient and creative and a joy to work with. I recommend her services, without reservation.
Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq. Princeton, NJ
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With everything available to us today,fad diets, diet supplements, exercise gadgets, lo-fat everything, it can reallybe a difficult task finding the diet or lifestyle that's "just" rightfor us.
Nutrition Counselor, Rochelle Blank-Zimmer, of Your Natural Choice playeda significant role helping to guide me to take further controlof my nutrition and dietary habits. This in turn, led tooverall improved health.
With her caring guidance she put me on the righttrack to make right nutritional choices. It hasbeen a year now since Rochelle has been my "personal healthguru" but the information and knowledge that she left with me,will last a lifetime.
Before reaching out for that nextdiet to come down the pike, I recommend that you reach out toRochelle to help personally guide you through your "get fit for life"journey. She certainly helped me!
Sue C. Roosevelt, New Jersey
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Initially I started workingwith Rochelle, because I was over weight, had acidreflux, was very depressed, was taking 4 different medications, and wasstruggling with low self-esteem.
I loved working with Rochelle because sitting with her waslike sitting with a best friend. I loved how she always listened to me andunderstood what I needed. She often prepared delicious and healthy snacks; andtaught me how to make them.
The program helped me learn howto love and care about myself. I lost weight, no long suffered with acid refluxand am stopped needing to take the medications. Two years later, I continue toeat and live healthy, and love my life. I am 56 and feel like I am 18, bothphysically and mentally.
Venecia Lorenzo, East Windsor,New Jersey
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am very glad I have worked with Rochelle Blank. The benefits for me, included weight loss, feeling better, more energy, and really understanding what healthy choices are. The education Rochelle provided, led me to experiment with types of food that I had never eaten before. Preconceived notions of tasteless foods and vegetables were banished. I have incorporated what I have learned into my life through a process that was gradual and tailored to my specific needs. "These changes" are now a part of my life. Rochelle, you have been an absolute pleasure to work. I would welcome the opportunity to recommend you, Rochelle to any of my friends or clients. Thank you for all of your help.
Gilian Abramowitz, Real Estate Consultant, NYC
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I embarked upon a journey to learn how to eat better; however, my primary focus was to lose weight. I didn't fully understand the quest that I was about to travel. My sessions with Rochelle touched my soul in a way that I had not realized would occur. I left my sessions feeling emotionally full and ready to release all of my barriers that had been holding me back. What I received from Rochelle was a great knowledge of holistic living and an abundance of loving support for me to make the necessary changes I had wanted to make. Until meeting Rochelle, I believed that being holistic was about eating right. However, after working with Rochelle, I have come to understand the spiritual meaning of being holistic – “Holistic living is about unity. It is about relating to everything and everyone in a way that is filled with love and compassion.” I have learned that connection between my mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual lies in what I eat, if I exercise, and what I think. The initial requirement was collaborating with Rochelle…the confirmation sings loudly from my happy, healthy, and holistic smile and the pounds I lost! Rochelle, I hope you realize just how special you are.
Peace, Blessings and Love, Simona Brickers, Trenton, New Jersey
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Rochelle's 6-month program really helped me look deep into myself and see things I wouldn’t have noticed before. Becoming more self-aware has enabled me to be more relaxed and make changes in how I live and in what I teach my children. Thank you for that challenge and awakening me to be true to myself. I also experienced new foods; so many that I never would of discovered on my own. Food has become exciting again as Rochelle challenged me to make so many interesting and healthy choices. Rochelle is wonderful.
Theresa Walsh – Milltown, New Jersey
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What started as a need for me to improve my eating habits ended up giving me so much more. I got back me, a Whole New Person inside and out. Rochelle’s knowledge and ability to communicate is impressive. The information that she teaches is transforming. For the first time in my nearly 70 years I feel good about my life and I have learned to put myself first.
I recommend Rochelle Blank to anyone who wants to make healthy changes in their life. She is informative, helpful and supportive. She listened to me and encouraged me to talk about my truth. I believe that is what helped me solve some of my concerns. Her recommendations gave me new ways to look at things. I always left my sessions with Rochelle Blank, thoughtful, encouraged, and with an “I can do this” attitude, something I had not had in a long time. I was also impressed by Rochelle’s openness, sincerity, and integrity. My sessions included a trip to the Whole Foods Store, a cooking class, and always something new to try. She gave me helpful handouts along with a copy of her session notes complete with thoughtful recommendations which are still a great reinforcement tool for me. Often I was sent home with a fresh new organic vegetable to try, of course with suggestions on how to prepare the vegetable or a healthy product to use. Working with Rochelle was a life changing experience for me.
Jayne Clayton, Princeton Junction, New Jersey
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Diagnosed with fibromyalgia and having severe neck pain from a car accident, my goals were not to loose weight, although kudos I unintentionally lost 45 pounds within 6 months, but to learn how to improve my poor vegetarian diet and eliminate wheat gluten and sugar.
Rochelle 6-month approach “Small Steps = BIG changes” got me BIG results. In my case she personalized a program that meant:
1) adding at least one vegetable to each meal, including, difficult to comprehend, breakfast;
2) listening to what my “primary foods” were SCREAMING for me to change. In my case it was to tweak my career;
3) eating organic whenever possible;
4) eliminating SUGAR and artificial ingredients.
During each session, Rochelle treats you like royalty with her creative touches, kindheartedness and focus on only you. She starts off by preparing a plate of delicious, yet simple to recreate food, which centers on the food group she is about to introduce. While eating you will be asked, “What is good in your life?” instead of “What is wrong?” to get you in a positive frame-of-mind. You will be guided through visualization and relaxation exercises and given pertinent handouts. You will be offered tailored recommendations for adding/deleting food and provided with many recipes. In the end, you will glance over and discover an array of delectable organic produce or products, such as a bag of aduki beans, some carrot and red pepper infused tempeh or some hemp pretzels. You will also always be provided with something holistic for pampering, such as an incense burner with a variety of incense options or an organic cotton washcloth for hot body scrubbing. Rochelle is constantly willing to share her wealth of knowledge, library of self-improvement books and abundant food samples. It’s always a treat to see what she has in store for you to take home and sample! For the first session she bundled up organic Kale, broccoli, asparagus, carrots, radishes, and other legumes like a flower bouquet and gifted a book on greens. She is remarkable.
Shortly after working with her it becomes second nature to add newly discovered food to each meal and you will end up craving them instead of your poor previous choices. You will also start to change and/or alter what isn’t serving you at the present time in your personal life.
In my opinion, Rochelle can assist you whether you yearn to loose weight, wish to learn how to prepare quick, yummy, healthy meals, need help restoring your health or are simply looking for a wonderfully compassionate life coach. I highly recommend her 6-month program, but if you aren’t committed at this point, I implore you to attend one of her events and sample her zucchini hummus, coconut cocao cookies or basil pistachio pesto. You will be glad you did!
Sally Kyle
Paws for Healing, Lawerceville, New Jersey
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Thank you for your more than I can say. For your patience and perseverance with me and even more, for your high-energy program filled with imagination, creativity and terrific suggestions for great healthy food. My life is forever changed from working with you. I now have an enthusiasm for finding and exploring healthy ways to nourish my body and myself. The many integrative levels that you reminded me of - from physical to spiritual have made a world of difference in my life.
Martha Otis, Princeton, New Jersey
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My experience working with Rochelle was very rewarding. I began with one 6-month program, got so much value that I signed up for a second 6-month program. The first 6 months, I learned a lot about food, and tried new greens, grains and beans. Eating these foods, I noticed that I was starting to feel less fatigued. The last six months, we worked deeper. I was able to discover how to create even more energy. Now I can last a whole day at work. Prior to working with Rochelle, I would struggle to make it to 3:00 PM. Today, I have no more afternoon slumps. I can even work after 5:00 PM and not tire. I am able to sleep better, think clearer, work faster and exercise after work and on the weekends. Rochelle had me realize that the most nutritious foods are organic whole foods, that they are the powerhouse for your body.
Mary - NJ Dept of Health & Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey
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Rochelle's Nutritional Program has been very beneficial to me.I am having issues with calcium absorption.Rochelle Has introduced me to new foods and has given me great recommendations on types of foods to eat to help achieve my goal of stronger bones. The program is much more than food. I have looked at how I can nourish my life and am grateful for all the insights I have received.
Meg Smith, Mercer County, NJ