Nutrition Skinny™

Thank you so much for checking out my site! If you've felt lost and confused as to how to find credible nutrition information; understand what's really behind the latest "eating fads;" or you're frustrated that there's no where to turn to help identify bogus claims, this website is for you!!

After practicing, teaching, researching, writing, and lecturing on nutrition for almost 40 years; hearing my friends’ and relatives’ nutrition questions and their frustration and confusion; and seeing the never-ending stream of misinformation about nutrition on both the internet and in the news, I decided to take my husband’s advice and do something positive to help the public at large.  Hence, I've taken to the internet myself and have committed to use my knowledge and experience to help make sense of the nutrition nonsense out there. One of the subsections to this menu item is my biography,  just so you can see I'm pretty qualified to provide you the best current nutrition advice available.

My job is to read and analyze every bit of information about a topic and to identify what makes sense, from a biological point of view; how good the scientific research evidence is; and what we know and don’t know…without regard to who is trying to sell what. If I state that a piece of information or a generic type of product is credible, you can be absolutely certain my statement is entirely free of bias or profit motive. I have not, and will not accept a penny in compensation, not even a single gummy vitamin, for anything I say or advise. For the same reason, I have never written a book, nor do I accept money for anything I write.

I use this website to provide basic nutrition principles (see the section called, "Healthy Choices") and to dissect the latest nutrition news in my blogs, so you don’t have to (see my "Blogs" section). This website is for you! If you have questions related to nutrition, food, eating and fitness, please send them my way. If I can’t figure out an answer, and even if I can, I’ll send you to the most reputable sources of scientific information.