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Krista Mugford

Registered Dietitian & Nutritionist, Cornell Health

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Krista provides nutrition counseling at Cornell Health, as well as in the local Ithaca community. She enjoys working together to create strategies to meet an individual’s unique needs and desired health goals. She believes fostering a healthy food-relationship and creating a sustainable pattern of eating is foundational for overall quality of life.  Her areas of nutrition experience include fueling for overall wellness and or sport, pre-diabetes/diabetes, eating disorder/disordered eating, heart health, and nutrition for vegetarian/vegans.

Krista grew up in Ontario Canada where she completed her Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Guelph. After graduation she moved to sunny California where her love for nutrition grew and she completed her Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetic Internship at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. She loves gardening and traveling, but most of her current time is spent with family (partner Brad Rickard also a Bethe House Fellow) and her 3 kids driving around New York for their various activities.