About Veronique Cardon, MS

Holistic Nutritionist, Community and Food Activist

A Student:

Veronique created The CogniDiet® Program based on years of coaching clients as a holistic nutritionist, studying the science of weight loss and her own life experience and past struggle with weight and stress.

Veronique is a Holistic Nutritionist with a Masters degree (summa cum laude) in Holistic Nutrition from the Clayton College of Natural Health. She started to meditate in 2005 and gained a Certificate of Completion in CBT applied to weight loss at the Beck Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior in Philadelphia-PA, in July 2013. She also holds a Commercial Engineer degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Brussels, Belgium. She also attended special management and leadership programs at INSEAD in France and the Harvard Business School in the US.

An Activist and a Cook:

She is actively involved in the Princeton, NJ community and passionate about helping people be healthy and vibrant with the help of food.

On the right, Veronique and her husband Paul Tastenhoye are leading a cooking class at the Terra Learning Kitchen at the YWCA in Princeton, on behalf of The Suppers Programs. Both Paul and Veronique have been cooking together for many years.

A Teacher:

Veronique organizes healthy cooking workshops and lectures on a regular basis about health, brain health and miscellaneous diet issues. Visit our event page to discover our regular workshops.

She developed a new program in 2018 called “PowerNESS Your Brain” which she delivers in corporations or not for profit organizations. This helps participants focus on improving their brain performance by learning how to improve four essential elements of brain health (besides love): Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Stress Relief.  If interested in your company, please call 609 285 2949

What is Different with Veronique’s Method? Well, She Lost 30 lbs. in 2006. And They Never Came Back.

Over the years she has come to understand the challenges and barriers people face when making health choices and, in particular, when trying to lose weight for life. It’s not easy! so just being on a diet is not enough. the weight always comes back.

As a top pharmaceutical executive with over 20 year experience, Veronique gained extensive knowledge in health and disease related issues pertaining to neurology, brain chemistry, depression, obesity, diabetes and smoking addiction.

This experience developed her ability to translate science into meaningful, clear and digestible guidance for her weight loss clients. She understands how to lead and motivate individuals through life altering changes.

She herself lost 30 lbs. since 2006 and kept them off. She is an ovarian cancer survivor and learned the hard way what stress can do to you.

Because sustained change requires new thoughts and new behaviors, Veronique studied meditation and pursued additional training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Neuroplasticity and Emotional Brain Training (EBT) and other stress relief techniques in order to incorporate these important elements into The CogniDiet® Weight Loss Programs. It is the combination of all this that makes the CogniDiet® a succesful and unique program.