Melissa Diane Smith - Background

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Melissa's Background

Melissa Diane Smith is an internationally recognized nutritionist and health educator who specializes in sugar-related health conditions, including metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, diabetes and prediabetes, and grain-related conditions, including gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, other autoimmune diseases and unexplained infertility. Her philosophy is that food is our best medicine and she counsels clients long-distance over the phone and gives presentations to healthcare professional and mainstream audiences throughout the United States and Canada. She also counsels clients in-person; writes a Nutrition News & Notes newsletter; and hosts an online Going Against The Grain Group database of articles with news and food-oriented support for people who eat against the grain.

Melissa is the coauthor of the national bestselling book, Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance and author of Basic Health Publications' User's Guide to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes Naturally and the ground-breaking Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health. Her other books include Why Am I Always So Tired, User's Guide to Vitamin E and User's Guide to Chromium.

Melissa is the "Go Gluten Free" columnist for Better Nutrition magazine. She also writes nutrition-related articles for other magazines and publications, including Body & Soul's Holistic Health, Yoga Journal, Delicious Living, and DiabetesInControl.com. Her work has been written about in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Woman's World, First for Women magazine and on WebMD. She also has spoken at numerous conferences, including the American Academy of Physician Assistants annual conference, the "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: The Perfect Endocrine Storm" conference, Natural Products Expo West, and the Nutritional Pathways To Health and Healing Conference for First Nations People in Edmonton, Canada, and the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

Melissa combines the investigative research skills she honed in journalism school with her nutrition training and clinical experience working with clients to provide clients with personalized nutrition advice. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Arizona, earned a diploma in nutrition and Graduate of the Year honors from the American Academy of Nutrition, and received advanced nutrition training from the Designs for Health Institute.

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