April Saunders

Blogger & Registered Dietitian

April Saunders is a Registered Dietitian with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals and families to make healthier food and lifestyle choices.
 
April has a wealth of experience with supporting different populations with healthy eating.
 
She’s hacked her way through jungle foliage and cooked while watching hairy tarantulas overhead in a remote community in Guyana, South America. While there, she worked with a non-profit group to provide healthy eating workshops to breastfeeding mothers and support subsistence farmers with their acouchi ant problem.
 
April has also shared a hot bowl of whale blubber soup with community elders in a remote First Nations community in Canada’s great white north in the territory of Nunavut. While in Nunavut, she was the inaugural dietetic student to work alongside community members to serve the breakfast program to underserved populations and learn first hand about the inequities and systemic barriers that prevent adults but particularly the children from having access to healthy food, while honoring their culture and heritage.
 
For most of her career as a dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, she has seen how challenging it can be for people to make healthy food and activity choices.
 
Fueled by her interest in how policies and the built environment affect people's ability to “make the healthy choice the easy choice”, she completed her Masters of Public Health at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.
And then things changed for April when she finally acknowledged her own struggles with gluten intolerance.
 
For years, April ate bowls of cereal, pasta galore, regular bread, buns, etc. And was totally fine. Until she wasn't. It started with burping and bloating but then progressed to include painful nausea and fatiguing brain fog.
 
For years, April would be doubled over in bed while their boys and Jason rode bikes to the park - painful in more ways than one. She hated missing out on doing things with her family and was so frustrated with the fact that she couldn't figure out what was going on with her stomach.
 
April finally decided to look into the stomach issues that she was living with for so long. The breaking point wasn’t the phone call from the surgeon giving her the results from a gastroscopy and biopsy (inflammation of the stomach lining likely caused by non-celiac gluten sensitivity.)
 
For her, what hit home was when April’s hubby said: “I can’t remember a time when your stomach WASN’T bothering you.” Yikes. That was her wake up call.
Fast-forward to when April finally cut gluten out of her life for good and she now feels like herself again.
 
Now, April’s on a furious mission to get the word out about gluten intolerance and help you shortcut your way to feeling better way faster than she did.
 
After years of supporting people 1:1, April has increased her impact and reach by supporting her audience with her digital products, seasonal recipe books, and sharing easy, gluten-free recipes on her blog and YouTube channel.
 
Think gluten is a problem for you too? Get a jump start on feeling better fast and going gluten-free without the headaches by grabbing her PDF List of Foods to Cut Out NOW.
 
April lives in Southwestern Ontario in Canada with her husband, 2 hockey playing sons and her stuffie-obsessed red retriever, Brinnley.