About Us

Auckland based Thinking Nutrition Limited’s consulting advice and products have been specifically designed for those who are balancing a demanding lifestyle – juggling careers and personal lives. Thinking Nutrition’s Director and Nutritionist, Jennifer Bowden understands the demands of a successful career and how this can impact on diet and health, through her previous experience as a project manager and senior manager in the software development industry.

Checking Your Nutritionist’s Credentials

Nutrition is a complex and continually changing field of science. Discovering and understanding the latest research requires a trained scientific approach. A degree-qualified nutritionist is the minimum standard that you should accept.

Auckland based nutritionist Jennifer Bowden, winner of the 2009 Nutritionist Development Award,  has both a Bachelor of Science degree (First Class Honours) in Human Nutrition as well as a Master of Science degree (with Distinction) in Human Nutrition. The achievement of a Master of Science post-graduate degree demonstrates Jennifer’s ability to not only understand the field of nutritional science but also to conduct scientific research. Read more about Jennifer Bowden.

What Do The Experts Say About Jennifer Bowden?

Jennifer Bowden’s sensible and balanced approach to providing nutrition consulting services has won her a number of highly regarded clients and positive feedback from academia, corporate clients and the media. Jennifer is a weekly columnist with the highly respected NZ Listener magazine, winner of the Qantas Media Award for News-Stand Magazine of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. NZ Listener editor Pamela Stirling says “Jenny has a strong following, with many people writing in asking advice about a myriad of topics”.

Jennifer is able to take complex research papers on nutritional science and turn them into enjoyable and practical articles for magazines and websites. She is a highly regarded contributor to the popular Healthy Food Guide magazine. HFG Editor Niki Bezzant says "Jenny is highly professional and knowledgeable". Jennifer also provides real-life nutritional advice for high profile sports personality Billy Bowden. The changes in Billy's eating habits have resulted in a marked improvement in his energy levels, that has had positive flow-on effects for his cricket umpiring at the elite level.  Read more about what Billy Bowden and our other clients say.

Jennifer’s specialist knowledge and expertise is applied to develop accurate, fact-based nutritional solutions that require minimal time and effort, and the necessary motivational tools and support to assist the achievement of lifestyle goals. Thinking Nutrition understands the demanding lifestyle of our clients and provides scientific-based, real-life nutrition solutions that promote successful living.

Smart Nutrition for Successful Living

Thinking Nutrition's goal is to enable you to live a healthy, successful life by providing credible, intelligent, nutritional advice and products, as well as the necessary motivation you need to make any necessary lifestyle changes. Thinking Nutrition achieves this by providing:

1. Current, scientific-based factual nutrition information and products – that enable you, our client, to improve your health, look good, feel good and increase your energy levels. 
2. Real-life solutions – that allow our clients to maintain life-balance and spend their valuable time and effort on their true priorities such as family and career. 
3. Motivation and support network – to encourage our clients to achieve their healthy lifestyle goals by providing complete support from the beginning through to the end.

All the information on Thinking Nutrition’s website is provided freely, to allow you to openly access and learn as much as you desire about healthy living. Read more about the nutrition-related services we provide.