Our Company

Founder - Julie H. Burns

Julie H. Burns, MS, RD, CCN is founder of SportFuel, Inc. and Eat Like the Pros^® – an integrative nutrition consulting firm with nutritional services and products including personal chef services, both located in Western Springs, IL.. Past and current clients include the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Bears football team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Northwestern University's varsity teams, Next Level Performance and individual pro and elite athletes.

Julie regularly provides nutrition guidance to coaches, athletic trainers, amateur athletes, and health care professionals. As a mother of teenage active triplets, she is often asked to address mother’s groups, parent associations, and other lay audiences. Julie also consults with food and public relations companies.

Julie previously served as Director of Research at the Chicago Center for Clinical Research, a former affiliate of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, where she specialized in cardiovascular experimental nutritionals and pharmaceuticals. She has an adjunct faculty appointment at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in the Department of Nutrition.

Julie is a regular presence on Chicago-area network and cable television and is frequently quoted in major newspapers and magazines. She co-edited the second edition of Cardiovascular Disease: Nutrition for Prevention and Treatment, a manual for health professionals, by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She has published articles in major medical journals, and authored a brochure for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) based on their Position Stand on Exercise and Fluid Replacement. Julie’s sports nutrition chapter contributions include a Sports Beverage chapter for Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes and Basketball: Power Jam Nutrition, in Sports Nutrition: A Guide for the Professional Working with Active People-3rd edition.

Julie earned her bachelor degree in Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1983) and her Masters of Science in Clinical Dietetics from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (1987). Julie is a registered and licensed dietitian (R.D, L.D.) in the state of Illinois and is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN) and IACCN).

Julie is a member of Nutritionists in Complementary Care (NCC) and Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN), practice groups of the American Dietetic Association. She is also a member of the Chicago, Illinois and West Suburban Dietetic Associations. She had an Executive Board appointment and was Cardiovascular Editor for the Pulse newsletter, a SCAN quarterly publication. Julie served on the Gatorade Sport Science Institute’s Sports Nutrition Advisory Board from 1995-2003.

Julie was rated “one of the top ten experts to help revamp your diet” by Harper's BAZAAR magazine. She received the American Dietetic Association Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) 2002 “Achievement Award” and has also been awarded “Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year" awards by the Chicago and Illinois Dietetic Associations.

Nutrition Consultant - Jenny Westerkamp, RD

Jenny Westerkamp serves as Nutrition Consultant for SportFuel, Inc and Eat Like the Pros LLC. Jenny graduated with high honors from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and earned a Bachelor's degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a concentration in Dietetics. While an undergraduate, Westerkamp founded Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH), which became the official liasion between her campus and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. As founder and president, she coordinated campus-wide and community-wide food drives, volunteer events, and fundraisers. She recruited student members and increased campus awareness of local hunger and food insecurity.

Westerkamp was awarded three merit-based scholarships including the Strawberry Fields Scholarship, which is awarded to the most outstanding dietetics student. She also was the recipient of the Senior Honorary 100 Award. This award recognizes the top 100 seniors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for academic excellence, outstanding leadership, and unique contributions to the university.

She completed her dietetics training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also CEO of All Access Internships, a website dedicated to meeting the needs of the dietetics student community. For her work with All Access Internships, she was awarded the American Dietetic Association Nutrition Entrepreneurs Professional Development Dietetic Student Award in October 2009.

In January 2010, she authored the e-book Social Media and the RD (Skelly Publishing). In June 2010, she released her e-book: Getting Matched: A Guide for Dietetics Students on All Access Internships. She has contributed to numerous blogs, newsletters, websites, and her own blog at www.jennywesterkamp.com.

Professional Affiliations include: American Dietetic Association, American Nutrition Association, Illinois Dietetic Association, Chicago Dietetic Association, Chicago Nutrition Association, Weston A. Price Foundation, Nutrition and Metabolism Society, Committee for a Healthy Nation, Liberation Wellness Team, Dietitians in Business and Communications, and Nutrition Entrepreneurs – Executive Committee (2010-2012).

Nutrition and Culinary Arts - Max G. Reeves, RD

Max Reeves is responsible for developing the menus and recipes as well as handling the day to day operations at Eat Like The Pros^®. He utilizes both his culinary & nutrition background to create flavorsome recipes that fit the nutritional requirements of the Eat Like The Pros^® meal program.

He has been practicing the culinary arts professionally for more than 10 years, and received his initial training at Johnson & Wales University graduating in 2003 acquiring a Bachelor’s degree in Culinary Nutrition. While studying at Johnson & Wales University he worked full time for the Marriott Hotel in Newport, RI. Following his graduation he successfully completed a Dietetic Internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA (2004), later earning his credential as a registered dietitian. He then continued his culinary training working at NO.9 Park in Boston’s prestigious Beacon Hill (2005).