SportFuel is an integrative nutrition consulting firm based in Western Springs, a west suburb of Chicago. We incorporate nutrition strategies that have worked for profession and elite althetes into everyday living. Our Customized Nutrition programs include nutrition assessment, nutritional testing, coaching and recommendations for diet and lifestyle changes, homeopathics, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and specific supplement formulations.
Julie H. Burns, MS, RD, CCN Julie H. Burns, MS, RD, CCN is founder of SportFuel, Inc. and Eat Like the Pros® – an integrative nutrition consulting firm with nutritional services and products including personal chef services, both located in Western Springs, IL.. Past and current clients include the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Bears football team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Northwestern University's varsity teams, Next Level Performance and individual pro and elite athletes.
Julie regularly provides nutrition guidance to coaches, athletic trainers, amateur athletes, and health care professionals. As a mother of teenage active triplets, she is often asked to address mother’s groups, parent associations, and other lay audiences. Julie also consults with food and public relations companies.
Julie previously served as Director of Research at the Chicago Center for Clinical Research, a former affiliate of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, where she specialized in cardiovascular experimental nutritionals and pharmaceuticals. She has an adjunct faculty appointment at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in the Department of Nutrition.
Julie is a regular presence on Chicago-area network and cable television and is frequently quoted in major newspapers and magazines. She co-edited the second edition of Cardiovascular Disease: Nutrition for Prevention and Treatment, a manual for health professionals, by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She has published articles in major medical journals, and authored a brochure for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) based on their Position Stand on Exercise and Fluid Replacement. Julie’s sports nutrition chapter contributions include a Sports Beverage chapter for Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes and Basketball: Power Jam Nutrition, in Sports Nutrition: A Guide for the Professional Working with Active People-3rd edition.
Julie earned her bachelor degree in Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1983) and her Masters of Science in Clinical Dietetics from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (1987). Julie is a registered and licensed dietitian (R.D, L.D.) in the state of Illinois and is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN) and IACCN).
Julie is a member of Nutritionists in Complementary Care (NCC) and Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN), practice groups of the American Dietetic Association. She is also a member of the Chicago, Illinois and West Suburban Dietetic Associations. She had an Executive Board appointment and was Cardiovascular Editor for the Pulse newsletter, a SCAN quarterly publication. Julie served on the Gatorade Sport Science Institute’s Sports Nutrition Advisory Board from 1995-2003.
Julie was rated “one of the top ten experts to help revamp your diet” by Harper's BAZAAR magazine. She received the American Dietetic Association Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) 2002 “Achievement Award” and has also been awarded “Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year" awards by the Chicago and Illinois Dietetic Associations.
Jenny Westerkamp, RDJenny Westerkamp serves as Nutrition Consultant for SportFuel, Inc and Eat Like the Pros LLC. Jenny graduated with high honors from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and earned a Bachelor's degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a concentration in Dietetics. While an undergraduate, Jenny founded Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH), which became the official liasion between her campus and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. As founder and president, Jenny coordinated campus-wide and community-wide food drives, volunteer events, and fundraisers. She recruited student members and increased campus awareness of local hunger and food insecurity.
Jenny was the recipient of three merit-based scholarships including the Strawberry Fields Scholarship, which is awarded to the most outstanding dietetics student. She also was the recipient of the Senior Honorary 100 Award. This award recognizes the top 100 seniors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for academic excellence, outstanding leadership, and unique contributions to the university.
Jenny completed her dietetics training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also co-founder of All Access Internships, a website dedicated to meeting the needs of the dietetics student community. For her work with All Access Internships, she was awarded the American Dietetic Association Nutrition Entrepreneurs Professional Development Dietetic Student Award in October 2009. She also enjoys nutrition communications and has contributed to numerous blogs, newsletters, and websites, including: SuperKids Nutrition, Skinny in the City, Feed Your Career, Fooducate, One Source Nutrition, Elite Nutrition DC, The Beauty Bean, NextGen Chicagonista, the Illinois Dietetic Association Bulletin, Massachusetts Dietetic Association Today@MDA, Liberation Wellness and her own blog at jennywesterkamp.com.
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