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GUEST CONTRIBUTOR K risten Coffield I s the founder and owner of The Culinary Cure, a consulting business and information website dedicated to helping people build culinary resilience and “Live Younger Longer.” Kristen is a passionate advocate for food as medicine, life navigator and culinary wellness coach. She reinvented her life after a decade of chronic physical and spiritual decline, and is now mission driven to help others do the same.  As a coach and “kitchen interventionist,” Kristen inspires people harness the power of food and habit, take control of the controllable, and live healthier, happier lives. She believes a largely plant-based diet holds the key to enhanced wellness and disease prevention; and that creating powerful culinary habits can profoundly influence longevity. The Kitchen Intervention is Kristen’s signature program for addressing the root cause of peoples frustrations with shopping, cooking and eating healthier. It is a process that reboots the kitchen to be a powerful partner in wellness transformation, eliminating useless habits and mindsets around food and cooking, and creating new health-supporting ones. KRISTEN COFFIELD Kristen has developed a signature Simple 7 Day Eating Plan that is not complicated, expensive or hard to follow. The Simple 7 Day Eating Plan is a stepping stone for creating positive life changes. It focuses on eliminating habits that do not serve the body and soul, and replaces them with life- supporting habits that do.  Kristen has a regular appearance on Good Morning Washington, ABC7/News Channel 8, where she inspires and motivates viewers to take charge of their health with easy plant based recipes and nutrition tips. Kristen’s Simple 7 Day Eating Plan, articles, videos and recipes can be found on her website, The Culinary Cure ( theculinarycure.com ). She has been featured in DC Refined, Great Day Washington, in multiple publications, is a columnist, speaker and wants to inspire you to live like you mean it and age like you want to!