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Constance Brown-Riggs
MSEd, RD, CDE, CDN

Constance is the owner and president of CBR Nutrition Enterprises, a nutrition consulting and counseling service. She is a certified diabetes educator with more than 25 years experience in the field of nutrition. She has worked with Essence magazine as a nutrition consultant and worked with them to help produce personalized weight loss meal plans for The Essence Total Makeover (Three Rivers Press 2001). She is frequently interviewed by Real Health magazine and served as a nutrition expert for the book Lighten Up: Healthquest's Complete 30-Day African-American Weight Loss Program (Amistad Press 2001).

Constance created the Diabetes Soul Food Pyramid and is the author of Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes (iUniverse 2006).

Constance has developed workshops and lectured on diabetes and other nutrition-related topics to organizations such as the New York State Department of Health, New York State, Arkansas and North Carolina Dietetic Associations, American Academy of Physical Therapy, University of South Carolina, Empire Medical Association and St. Louis Association of Diabetes Educators.

Her professional honors include 2007 Diabetes Educator of the Year from the American Dietetic Association Diabetes Care and Education Practice Group, and Dietitian of the Year from the Long Island Dietetic Association.

Constance is a media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and past president of the New York State Dietetic Association.

Specialties:

Newly Diagnosed, Coping And Emotional Issues, Food and Nutrition, Gestational Diabetes, Prediabetes, Weight Issues

Affiliations:

American Dietetic Association; New York State Dietetic Association

Publications:

Contributed to The Essence Total Makeover; nutrition expert for Lighten Up: Healthquest's Complete 30-Day African-American Weight Loss Program; authored Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes

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