Grabbing a sandwich midday might seem like a simple enough choice, but it turns out that we make some of our biggest nutritional mistakes at lunch.
Health magazine’s Samantha Heller joined NBC’s Jenna Wolfe to make over the lunches of the Weekend Today show staff and share simple ways to make healthy adjustments to your favorite lunch picks.
Samantha Heller
Samantha Heller, RD, is the nutrition coordinator at the Fairfield Connecticut YMCA. A certified dietitian/nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Heller earned her master’s degree in nutrition and applied physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University. She served as the senior clinical nutritionist and exercise physiologist at NYU Medical Center in New York City for almost a decade and created and ran the outpatient nutrition program for the NYU Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. She has also been a fitness instructor for 15 years. Heller specializes in nutrition, wellness, stress management, and fitness for people who are fighting heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
A contributing editor to Health magazine, her writing has also appeared in numerous other magazines, including Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, and Glamour, and on sites such as Fitness.com.
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