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Welcome to my website! I am passionate about encouraging lifestyle habits that promote good health, and hope you find much information and inspiration here.
You’ll find healthy recipes, nutrition strategies for optimal health and athletic performance, and updates on current health and wellness topics. I’ll also keep you updated on the latest sports science and sports nutrition news.
Be sure to check out my Healthy or Hype pages, where I do my best to dispel myths, fads, and misinformation about nutrition and health.
About Sheila
Sheila Kealey is a health promotion consultant, nutrition researcher, and health writer. She has worked with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, for over 20 years studying how diet influences health and investigating the most effective strategies to improve lifestyle behaviors like diet and physical activity. Sheila has written hundreds of articles related to food and healthy eating, helped develop the Healthy Eating and Living Program manual used in research studies investigating the influence of lifestyle choices on health, and coauthored many research articles. She has a keen interest in sports nutrition and uses her background to put recent research into context for athletes and coaches. Sheila has a BSc from McGill University, and a Masters degree in Public Health (Health Promotion) from San Diego State University.
Athlete and Coach
Sheila has been a national level rower and duathlete, and has dabbled in triathlon, running, and cycling. She now focuses her racing around achieving top performances in cross country skiing in the winter, and running or the odd triathlon in the summer.
She also enjoys promoting physical activity and giving back to the community to through volunteer coaching at Nakkertok Nordic and the University of Ottawa where she is head coach of the new Gee-Gees ski team, uOttawa Nordiq. She is currently completing her NCCP Competition Development coaching certification. You can find details about Sheila’s coaching here.
Sheila’s Scientific Publications
Sheila worked with researchers at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center on various studies related to dietary patterns and disease, dietary assessment, nutrition counseling, physical activity, the influence of lifestyle factors on cancer, and tobacco control. View her Google Scholar Profile here. (Her scientific publications are also listed here.)
Contact Sheila
You can contact sheila here.
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In the News
- Recipes for Runners (Ottawa Citizen story and video)
- CTV Morning Live – Recovery Recipe for Runners
- Cross-country skier Sheila Kealey driven to compete (Ottawa Citizen story and video)
- Sheila awarded Le Droit/Radio Canada Personalite de la semaine
- CBC Radio Canada Video Interview
- Ottawa Sun Interview about 2014 Gatineau Loppet
- 10 Things to know about multi-sport athlete Sheila Kealey
- 5 energizing foods to fuel your workout – Best Health Magazine interview with Sheila
Website Details
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Updated March 29, 2018
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