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Jenette Restivo

Health Writer; Assistant Director for Digital Content Creation and Engagement, Harvard Health Publishing

Jenette Restivo is a Health Content Writer and Assistant Director for Digital Content Creation and Engagement at Harvard Health Publishing. Jenette is a media professional with a 15+ year-career creating strategic content for broadcast, nonprofits, and websites. Jenette started her career in health editing at About.com. She reported for the medical unit of ABC News, and was a producer/writer of health, science and other documentaries for television channels such as PBS, the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic. Jenette led communications efforts for a healthcare nonprofit called Primary Care Progress, and directed content strategy for the Children and Nature Network.

Posts by Jenette Restivo

Can you increase your metabolism? featured image

Diet and nutrition

Can you increase your metabolism?

Stretching and strengthening exercises to relieve and prevent lower back pain featured image

Pain

Stretching and strengthening exercises to relieve and prevent lower back pain

Omega-3 foods: Incorporating healthy fats into your diet featured image

Diet and nutrition

Omega-3 foods: Incorporating healthy fats into your diet

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for type 2 diabetes: When and for whom are they useful? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for type 2 diabetes: When and for whom are they useful?

Everyday arm exercises: Functional benefits featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Everyday arm exercises: Functional benefits

What is a mucus plug? featured image

Women's Health

What is a mucus plug?

What does a cavity look like? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

What does a cavity look like?

Turmeric benefits: A look at the evidence featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Turmeric benefits: A look at the evidence

Chest workouts: Exercises for strength and function featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Chest workouts: Exercises for strength and function

Chia seed benefits: What you need to know featured image

Diet and nutrition

Chia seed benefits: What you need to know

Effective exercises for building a strong back featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Effective exercises for building a strong back

Foods high in iron: Incorporating high-iron foods into a healthy diet featured image

Diet and nutrition

Foods high in iron: Incorporating high-iron foods into a healthy diet

Narcissistic personality disorder: Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments featured image

Mind & Mood

Narcissistic personality disorder: Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments

Bed bug bites: How to identify them, get relief, and prevent future bites featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Bed bug bites: How to identify them, get relief, and prevent future bites

What are the stages of heart failure? featured image

Heart Health

What are the stages of heart failure?

High-protein foods: The best protein sources to include in a healthy diet featured image

Diet and nutrition

High-protein foods: The best protein sources to include in a healthy diet

Strep throat: Symptoms, causes, and treatment featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Strep throat: Symptoms, causes, and treatment

Heart-healthy foods: What to eat and what to avoid featured image

Heart Health

Heart-healthy foods: What to eat and what to avoid

Plantar fasciitis: Symptoms, causes, and treatments featured image

Pain

Plantar fasciitis: Symptoms, causes, and treatments

Guide to the Mediterranean diet featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Guide to the Mediterranean diet

Sleep paralysis: Causes, symptoms, and treatments featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Sleep paralysis: Causes, symptoms, and treatments

Celiac disease diet: Avoiding foods that contain gluten featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Celiac disease diet: Avoiding foods that contain gluten

Common celiac disease symptoms featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Common celiac disease symptoms

8 ways to get constipation relief featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

8 ways to get constipation relief

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