Dr Chris Fenn
Nutrition Consultant

BSc (honours) Agricultural Sciences, Nottingham University. Specialising in Food Chemistry, Biochemistry and Human Nutrition.

PhD, Aberdeen University, 1988. Research thesis on Exercise Physiology - rehydration during endurance exercise.

Chris Fenn is one of the UK's leading nutritionists and an international speaker. She advises top businessmen and women, athletes, and anyone with a dream on how to achieve peak performance through nutrition.

What we eat has a dramatic effect on how we think and how we feel. Eating well means not only looking good and feeling great, its about having enough energy to enjoy life and to achieve your goals. Food matters!

Chris Fenn will show you how to boost your mental and physical energy. You will learn simple tools and techniques - which work. Chris follows her own advice and has plenty of energy. And she needs it - to cope with her busy schedule of lectures all over the world...and her adventures.

Chris has cycled across North America from coast to coast - a journey of 3,500 miles which took 61 days of cycling and burned 200,000 Calories! She set off from San Diego and dipped her back tyre in the Pacific Ocean. After cycling across 8 states, 4 times zones and 4 mountain ranges, she arrived at St Augustine, Florida where she dipped her front tyre in the Atlantic Ocean. Here is Chris at the end of her journey on the beach at St Augustine, Florida.

Chris is a regular contributor to BBC radio and TV programmes - seen here filming for the TV series "The Great Outdoors".

She is also the presenter and consultant for "The Good Foods Guide" a series of programmes broadcast repeatedly on the BBC World Service. Chris designed the food for the "castaways" on the popular BBC television survival programme "The Heat is On". Her experiences at Paulianne, working on an organic farm in France - (http://paulianne.free.fr) were broadcast on the farming and environmental programme "Grass Roots" for BBC Radio Scotland.

Chris lives in Scotland and has a passion for travel, the outdoors, cycling and walking. She is a member of the Guild of Health Writers. Chris has a monthly column in "Cycling Plus". Her feature articles have been published in outdoor magazines such as "Trail" and TGO (the great outdoors), as well as the timeoutdoors website. (www.timeoutdoors.com)

She has led trekking groups to Nepal and has climbed Kilimanjaro twice. During her first ascent, Chris took recording equipment for the BBC and her story was made into an adventure travel series for radio Scotland entitled "The Roof of Africa".

As part of her research into high altitude nutrition, Chris trekked to Everest Base Camp. She put this research into practise when she designed the diets for the British Everest Expedition. This expedition made history. One of the climbers was Rebecca Stephens, MBE, who reached the summit as the first British woman to climb Everest.

Rebecca Stephens MBE on top of Everest

Chris believes that everyone has their own Everest to climb. This may be a long cherished dream, or one of life's unexpected challenges. We cannot always control everything that happens to us. But what we can change is the way we respond to, and handle, the challenge.

Having enough energy gives the power

to turn dreams into action.