Nutritionist for Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a working town with a mountain attached, and both halves show up in the work. There's a substantial trades and rail population here — people on their feet all day, on shift patterns that wreck sleep, eating whatever the day allows. That combination does specific and predictable things to blood sugar and to cortisol, and it responds well to changes that don't require anyone's schedule to become reasonable.

Then there's the other Ogden, the one that moved here for the canyon. Weekend endurance athletes with day jobs, training for something in Snowbasin or Powder Mountain, running into the same wall: doing everything right, going backwards anyway. Under-fuelling is far more common in that group than over-eating, and it's almost never what they expect to hear.

Ogden also catches the northern edge of the same winter inversion that sits over the Wasatch Front, so the seasonal inflammatory load is real here too — with less attention paid to it than in Salt Lake.