Justine Calumpang, RND - Online Nutrition Clinic

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Get a chance to learn from Julian Sebastian Teves!

Enjoy a delicious plant-based dinner buffet while learning from experts who are passionate about helping you achieve better health.

📅 July 26, 2026 (Sunday)
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 The Green Chef Plant-Based Restaurant

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20/07/2026

Are you feeling constantly tired, mentally drained, or burned out?

Join us for an inspiring evening of great food and meaningful conversation at The Green Chef Plant-Based Restaurant.

📅 Sunday, July 26, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM

Enjoy a delicious plant-based dinner buffet followed by an insightful talk with Dr. Jan Harry Cabungcal, Neuroscientist, as we explore “Oxidative Stress, Anxiety, and the Brain-Gut Connection”

Discover how chronic stress, burnout, nutrition, and gut health are closely connected to brain function, mood, and overall well-being. Learn practical, science-based insights that can help you care for both your mind and body.

Come hungry, leave nourished—with both food and knowledge.

Limited seats available. We look forward to sharing this meaningful evening with you.

09/07/2026

This is what our 1-Week Cycle Personalized Diet Plan looks like!

No more guessing what to eat, how much to eat, or what to buy at the grocery.

Every meal plan is personally designed by a Licensed Nutritionist-Dietitian based on your:
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Your personalized package includes:
- 1-Week Cycle Menu with different meal variations
- Portion Guide (household measurements + grams)
- Recipe Guide
- Complete 1-Week Grocery List
- Nutrition Assessment, Diet Instructions & Coaching

The best part? You can simply place your meal plan on your refrigerator and use it as your weekly guide. Since it already contains different menu variations, you can continuously rotate the meals and practice healthy eating long term.

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09/07/2026

I encourage everyone to seek nutrition advice and personalized diet plans only from qualified Registered Nutritionist-Dietitians.

Nutrition is not one-size-fits-all. A proper nutrition assessment and evidence-based recommendations are essential for your health and safety.

Before following nutrition tips online or starting a diet plan, take the time to know the credentials of the person you’re trusting with your health.

Alinsunod sa RA 10862, ipinapaalala ng Nutritionist-Dietitians' Association of the Philippines (NDAP) na tanging mga Registered Nutritionist Dietitians (RND) lamang ang may legal na kakayahan na magbigay ng nutrition diagnosis at serbisyong pang-nutrisyon.

Kaugnay nito, hinihikayat ang lahat na maging maingat sa pagpapakalat ng impormasyon at iwasan ang pagbabahagi ng maling kaalaman patungkol sa nutrisyon upang mapanatili ang kaligtasan at wastong gabay para sa publiko.

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20/06/2026

05/06/2026

Eat breakfast, then lunch, and your blood sugar may barely climb. Skip breakfast, eat the same lunch, and it can climb a good deal higher. The thing that changed wasn't the food. It was the morning.

This comes from a small study in healthy adults. Each person was given an identical lunch on two days, once after breakfast and once after skipping it. The rise in blood glucose after the skipped-breakfast lunch was much larger, 3.2 versus 0.9 mmol/L on average. Same meal, same people. The only thing that differed was whether anything came before it. It is a small study, so it is best held as a signal rather than a settled rule.

The insulin response looked similar on both days, which hints that insulin is not what's driving this. The leading explanation is free fatty acids. Going without food for a few hours tends to raise them, and muscle that is running on fat appears to take up less glucose. So lunch arrives and more of that sugar may stay in circulation, because the tissue that would normally absorb it is busy burning fat instead. Eat breakfast and fatty acids stay lower, which seems to leave muscle readier to handle the incoming sugar.

There is a separate piece of evidence worth knowing, though it is in a different group. In people with type 2 diabetes, a dose of arginine before lunch cut the post-lunch glucose rise by about half. Arginine triggers insulin, but it is an amino acid, not a meal, no carbohydrate involved. That points to the effect being about the state the body is in beforehand rather than how the food is digested. Worth being clear that this was a diabetic population, separate from the healthy adults in the first study.

One honest limit. These are small, acute studies measured over single afternoons. Nobody has shown that eating breakfast every day lowers long-term blood sugar or disease risk through this mechanism, and the wider research on breakfast is genuinely mixed. Treat this as interesting physiology, not a diet rule.

What it does suggest is that a single meal's glucose response may not be fixed. The same lunch might do two different things in the same body depending on what came before it. The number on a food label or a glycemic index chart could be only part of the story, with the state you were already in making up the rest.

Jovanovic et al., Clinical Science, 2009 (healthy adults)
Jovanovic et al., Diabetes Care, 2009 (type 2 diabetes)
Wolever et al., Am J Clin Nutr, 1988