LA nutritionist, chef and former model Christine Avanti has faced her own struggles with weight gain after a family tragedy, interrupting her flourishing modeling career and sending her down the dieting spiral. To counteract these events she turned to nutrition as a second career, eventually opening her own business and becoming well known in the Hollywood circle. Part of her success was conquering a consuming sweet tooth with blood sugar balancing through nutrition. In her new science-backed book, she teaches how to properly balance bodily systems with food to facilitate fat loss and includes plenty of scrumptious whole food recipes.