Meet Angela

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Angela Stanford is a sought after nutrition and wellness expert focused on preventative and integrated health.  For over 20 years, she has been helping others learn how to eat mindfully and make lifestyle choices that improve how they look and feel while navigating today’s busy, convenience driven world.  She practices personalized nutrition and coaches her clients through roadblocks to achieve their vision of vibrant health and wellness.

During her career, Angela has helped hundreds of people improve their health by adjusting what they put on the end of their forks.  From corporate wellness settings like Facebook to her own private practice in Danville, California, Angela counsels individuals, delivers corporate wellness programs, and teaches classes and workshops. 

Angela earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition from the University of Illinois and completed her Dietetic Internship at UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.  Angela is also credentialed as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) accredited with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).
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Outside work, you can find Angela testing out new recipes, balancing on her yoga mat, tending to her organic garden, or hiking trails with friends and family in San Francisco’s East Bay.

Mission

Vital Nutrition & Wellness was founded by integrative nutritionist and registered dietitian Angela Stanford to empower people to improve their physical health and perception of themselves through the food and lifestyle choices they make.  She combines clinical nutrition expertise, lab markers, body composition, nutrigenomics, and coaching wisdom to help her clients fit together the puzzle pieces of wellness -  nutrition, enjoyable movement (exercise), sleep, stress management and mindfulness practices to improve how they look and feel while warding off chronic disease. 

People work with Angela for many health reasons, but most seek her out  to improve digestive issues, lose weight, change body composition, reduce pain and inflammation, reverse symptoms of autoimmune disease, and prenatal nutrition.  She also develops and delivers corporate wellness programs including lunch ‘n learn classes, body composition screenings and mindful eating workshops.

Credentials

What Clients Are Saying

"Angela has ignited a renewed way of thinking for me. I've wanted to clean up my act when it comes to nourishing my body. Her sound advice and knowledge helped me be more conscious when choosing my foods which has led to better sleep, less hormonal issues and a loss of 8 lbs...wow...most importantly, I feel great!"
— LM Perkins

Beneficiaries

A percentage of revenues support two great organizations:  Doctors Without Borders and Kiva.org.  The missions of these organizations are aligned with the mission of Vital Nutrition & Wellness  - to improve health and wellness of others.
Doctors and nurses volunteer
to provide urgent medical care
​in countries to victims of war and disaster
regardless of race, religion or politics.
An international nonprofit based in San Francisco
connecting people through lending to alleviate poverty. 

​To date, Vital Nutrition & Wellness has
helped 231 small businesses through micro-loans
to help the world’s working poor
make great strides towards economic independence.