Hi there! Let me introduce myself. My name is Rebecca Fallihee and I’m a board-certified and licensed nutritionist. I’ve been working within the realm of public health (nutrition education) and now clinical practice for over eight years, and well, both my health and athletic journeys began around birth, as my first and formative memories were of being on horses, active and outside most of the day, and unleashing my competitive spirit in the myriad of ways it does as a child.
Later I began running and haven’t stopped. And even before my memories began, I was challenged with digestive issues and food allergies/intolerances. Along the way of getting from early childhood to here, my health took a few sharp twists. I got side-tracked by an eating disorder and ultimately worked my way out of it. As I navigated through my 20’s, I re-developed several food intolerances, digestive complaints, malabsorption, autoimmune issues and long stretches of chronic pain. All of that led me to grad school for nutrition and herbal medicine and becoming a clinical nutritionist.
About Eggplant + Olive
What lights me up and has become my focus in the realm of nutrition and health is that:
- Health care nourishes wellness instead of just purely treating symptoms and disease.
- We treat root causes instead of putting band-aids on symptoms.
- We work with the whole person, with the acknowledgement that our entire lifestyle (eating patterns, environment, stress, sleep, training load, family, social, and spiritual connections, etc.) contributes to wellbeing.
- You can be active and achieve your athletic goals and still heal your body – as an active person and goal-oriented athlete myself, I understand the need to push yourself in ways that sometimes contributes to the health imbalance. We work with that!
I currently work with individuals who want guidance on nutrition, particularly supporting digestive issues, fatigue, nutritional support and performance for endurance athletes, autoimmune, intuitive eating, and meeting needs on a plant-based diet. If one or more of these sounds like you, I’d love to chat about your concerns and goals during a free mini nutrition consult. I currently live in Eugene, Oregon and work both in-person for those locally as well as via distance.
Credentials & Affiliations
- Licenced Dietician/Nutritionist (LDN)
- Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS)
- Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Herbal Medicine (MS), Maryland University of Integrative Health
- Professionals in Nutrition for Exercise and Sport (PINES)
- American Nutrition Society (ANS) member
- American Herbalists Guild member
- Certified ServSafe Manager
Love your blog!
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Great site you have! We’re creating a new recipe sharing site and would like you to be involved in the beta. Please email me. Thanks! – Ken
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Rebecca, I am so glad you shared this! I really did love seeing you guys over Christmas break. Best wishes in 2014.
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Love your blog! I’m an organic backyard farmer in the Mojave Desert and I’m roasting my fresh garden beets right now to try your posted Beet Hummus recipe! Thank you!
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Thanks so much, Susan! Welcome, and enjoy! :)
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