Frances Sizer
Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., attended Florida State University, where, in 1980, she received her BS and, in 1982, her MS in nutrition. She is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a founding member and vice-president of Nutrition and Health Associates, an information and resource center in Tallahassee, Florida, that maintains an ongoing bibliographic database tracking research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition. Her textbooks include LIFE CHOICES: HEALTH CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES; MAKING LIFE CHOICES; THE FITNESS TRIAD: MOTIVATION, TRAINING, AND NUTRITION; and others. She is a primary author of NUTRITION INTERACTIVE, an instructional college-level nutrition game-teaching resource. In addition to writing, she has lectured at universities and at national and regional conferences and serves in several local hunger and homelessness relief organization in her community.
Ellie Whitney
Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and Biology at Harvard and Washington Universities. She taught at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University, wrote numerous newspaper columns on environmental matters for the Tallahassee Democrat, and coauthored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition, health, and related topics, many of which repeatedly reappear as new editions. She spent three decades exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology, and then co-wrote PRICELESS FLORIDA: NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND NATIVE SPECIES. Now retired, and more concerned about climate change than any other issue, she volunteers full-time for the nonpartisan national nonprofit Citizens Climate Lobby.
Carla D’Andreamatteo
Carla D'Andreamatteo, M.Sc., R.D., attended the University of Manitoba and received her Bachelor of Human Ecology, major in Nutrition in 1997. After graduating, she completed her dietetic internship with Saskatoon District Health and achieved Registered Dietitian status in 1998. After practicing as a dietitian for more than a decade, Carla returned to the University of Manitoba and completed a Masters of Science, major in Human Nutritional Sciences, in 2013. Having been raised in Northern Manitoba, Carla's dietetic career and many years as a post-secondary instructor have involved working with Northern populations, and a focus on the nutrition needs of vulnerable population groups. Carla continues to teach (and uses this very textbook!) in post-secondary education, is involved with various research projects, and continues to provide front-line dietitian service within Manitoba. In addition to working in academia, research, and providing clinical dietetic services, Carla has more than two decades of experience working with the national dietetic competency assessment processes to assist with ensuring the dietetics field verifies safe entry-to-practice for graduate dietitians across Canada (excluding Quebec).
Elizabeth Novak
Elizabeth Novak received her Bachelor of Science from McGill University and her Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from the University of British Columbia. She has over 10 years’ experience teaching nutrition at the postsecondary level at both the University of British Columbia and Capilano University, North Vancouver. Prior to teaching, Elizabeth’s research focused on fatty acid nutrition in pregnancy. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed publications and she was an author of the Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop Series on Early Nutrition: Impact on Short- and Long-Term Health. While she continues to stay current with research, her focus is now on teaching. Elizabeth’s goal in teaching and writing this book is to share her enthusiasm for food and science with all who wish to understand healthy eating. Her approach is grounded in the principles of nutrient density, variety, and, above all, moderation - everything in moderation including moderation. She emphasizes the importance of focusing on the fundamentals rather than passing fads. Elizabeth also recognizes the cultural significance of enjoying food, considering it as essential as meeting one’s nutrient needs.
Leonard Piché
Leonard A. Piché, Ph.D., R.D., nutritional scientist, received his Ph.D. in human nutrition from the University of Guelph in 1987 and has been a Registered Dietitian (RD) since 1997. He is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Foods and Nutritional Sciences, Brescia University College, at Western University, responsible for developing and teaching basic and advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in nutrition. He was also an adjunct Full Professor in the School of Kinesiology, Western University. He is a member of seven professional national organizations, including the Canadian Nutrition Society and the Sports Nutrition Network of the Dietitians of Canada. Dr. Piché was a contributor for two recent editions of Mosby’s Medical Dictionary and a consultant for a Canadian edition of a high school food and nutrition text. His publications as a coauthor include two publications on Canada’s Food Guide, a number of Canadian Student Information (CSI) documents to accompany entry-level university nutrition texts, and an advanced-level nutrition text. He has been involved in and coauthored peer-reviewed articles on experiments in humans looking at the relationship between diet and heart disease risk (e.g., orange juice and good cholesterol and the effects of a high-protein diet on risk factors for cardiovascular disease). Dr. Piché has provided feedback to Health Canada on more than five dozen occasions regarding food- and nutrition-related issues (e.g., nutrition labelling, the Food Guide, the discretionary addition of vitamins and minerals to foods, and updating the Canadian Nutrient File). He was an advisor on three of Dietitians of Canada’s online courses for health-care professionals (Sport Supplements, Vitamins and Minerals, and Herbal Supplements). He has supervised the nutrient analysis of more than a dozen recipe books targeted at different segments of the general public.
