Who We Are?
If you care about your HEALTH, you're in the right place
We are here to keep you up to date with the latest evidence based health-related informations. Vivre El Hayat Healthy is your ultimate guide on how to understand and nourish your body and mind and how to make healthy lifestyle choices for you and your family for better health and well-being.
Why Vivre El Hayat Healthy ?
Because we care about your health, and by health we mean your physical, mental and emotional health. As a dietitian my mission is to help others understand more about food and nutrition and motivate them to adopt daily healthier habits to reduce their risks of chronic diseases and promote their overall health. Also as a public health practitioner and in the midst of the infodemic, I am committed in addressing common misconceptions about nutrition, food and health by providing nutritional and health education based on accurate facts and reliable sources.
Vivre El Hayat Healthy is a platform where I can share my experience and knowledge from my advanced degree in Nutrition and Public Health, my passions in raising health awareness, supporting people’s health journey, helping them build a healthier relationship with food and their bodies and my interests in several health related topics.
We believe that having access to education is the foundation of health and well-being and that technology is a tool that can be used to improve health, that’s why Vivre El Hayat Healthy is an online platform with most of our informations are available to the public. We are dedicated in improving the health of individuals and communities and also we believe in our responsibility to address the global health challenges in the world and how we as individuals can contribute for a better world.
Health is a journey and a daily focus. It’s all about setting small achievable goals and starting to adopt little by little, day after day healthier behaviors. It’s okay if you failed sometimes, you can always try again and find a way to succeed at achieving your health goal, but what is most important in all this journey is to not forget to be kind to yourself.
How it All Started
From a young age, I knew that I want a career in a healthcare field. I always felt curious about learning and knowing more about health topics. After graduating from school in 2014, I decided to continue my studies in Nutrition and Dietetics and I was chosen between only fifteen persons to attend the program after successfully passing the entrance exam.
During my bachelor degree, I was blown away by all the misconceptions about food and nutrition that people have in their minds and I had before studying this field. Yes, I am not gonna say that I had a perfect relationship with food and my body, I always struggled with ups and downs AND IT’S OKAY If YOU ARE NOW STRUGGLING THE SAME, I understand you. But what I learned is that health is a journey and a daily practice, it’s all about setting small achievable goals and starting to adopt little by little, day after day healthier behaviors and I am here to help you learn how.
After completing my master’s degree in Public Health in the end of the 2021, I wanted to start a Nutrition and Health blog because I’m passionate about creating health-related contents but at first I didn’t knew how to build a website and where to start. It was until February 2022 that I had the courage and motivation to start working on the blog with my brother Joseph who is a software engineer and who supported me in every step through the development of Vivre El Hayat Healthy. I wanted the website to be 100% about topics that I am passionate to talk about and I started to build the website by watching youtube videos and tutorials on how to create blogs and design websites and here you are now seeing the results of my work !
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About Elissa Msallem, MPH, MS, LDN
Elissa Msallem MPH, MS, LDN is the Founder of Vivre El Hayat Healthy. She holds a master’s degree in Human Nutrition from the Lebanese University and is a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist. Her interest in public health research and more specifically in epidemiology has led her to pursue a master’s degree in Public Health, option Methodology and Statistics in Biomedical Research at the University of Paris-Saclay and the Lebanese University. Currently, she is a first year PhD candidate in Epidemiology at Inserm in France where she obtained a grant from “La Ligue Contre le Cancer” and she works on the association between perinatal factors and childhood lymphoma and risk of obesity and eating behaviors in adult survivors.
She has a previous experience in epidemiology and public health research, more specifically in the research area of pediatric health, where she previously worked on complementary feeding practices and health of toddlers in Lebanon and etiologic studies on childhood cancer.
Furthermore, she has a previous experience in clinical nutrition, nutrition education to patients and their families, community health awareness interventions for women’s health.
Area of expertise: Childhood Cancer Epidemiology – Human Nutrition – Public Health – Nutritional Epidemiology – Pediatrics – Biostatistics – Clinical Nutrition
8 Personal Fun Facts About Me
- I love traveling, I like to discover different cultures. I have been to France and Italy before and fell in love with their culture and food.
- I am really interested in technology. I spend most of my time with my brother, an engineer and a programmer who is obsessed with coding talking about digital technologies.
- I love photography. There is no better thing than taking photos of beautiful landscapes and foods that are made with love.
- I am a country girl. Mountains are a great place for fresh air and organic food. What’s better than eating an apple directly from the tree, but you know it’s difficult to live there all the time, but I try my best to spend most of my vacations there to refill some energy and then come back to city life.
- For me, family is everything. They are my number one supporter. We are a small family of four and I always feel lucky to have them in my life.
- I love music but my taste is very diverse. I love opera and old classical music, fusion, gypsy, rap, R & B and Oriental music. Trust me you don’t want to be with me in the same car when the radio is on.
- Basketball for me is life, I have been a big fan of this game since day one.
- Cooking for me is an art, I love watching cooking shows (Top Chef my best so far) and learning new recipes but never actually trying them 😂 … well maybe one day!