Stephanie Blount-Aponte is a registered advanced practice nurse informaticist and utilization management nurse consultant with more than 15 years experience in utilization management, psychiatric nursing, care management and informatics. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing with a specialization in Nurse Informatics from Walden University and is a certified case manager. She has compact FL licensure and is also licensed in NJ, PA, VA and OR. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and currently works with a Fortune 500 health insurance company. She is actively pursuing board certification in holistic nursing practice. Stephanie discovered, as a type 2 diabetic, that the medication she was prescribed, Metformin, caused her severe adverse gastrointestinal side effects and eliminated it from her health regimen, adopting a zero refined sugar lifestyle instead. She has successfully maintained a zero refined sugar diet for greater than a year and has realized improved health benefits, including weight loss achieving goal weight, A1C levels within normal limits and a reduction of joint and generalized inflammation and fatigue with diet control and without medication. Stephanie is passionate about impacting health outcomes of all age groups within the population and is a zero refined sugar advocate and nursing coach helping people of all ages to transition to zero refined sugar lifestyle, cure sugar addiction and sustain healthy living. In her free time, she enjoys gardening and cycling for exercise, stretching, cooking zero refined sugar meals, singing jazz, traveling and collecting tea sets from all over the world.