As a first time mother and enthusiastic cook, Pilar became interested in the nutritional properties of individual foods and started researching the impact diet can have on long-term health. Right after her second child was born, Pilar started training in Nutritional Therapy at BCNH and by the time her third child arrived, she was qualified and ready to start her clinic and nutrition consultancy, PurpleCarrot Nutrition. Pilar’s Nutritional Therapy clinic in based in Hampstead, North London where she also teaches nutrition and health at schools and runs cooking and nutrition workshops for adults and children.