Melissa Diane Smith - Background

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Melissa's Background

Melissa Diane Smith is a leading authority on how to use food as medicine for a wide variety of different health conditions. She is an investigative health journalist and holistic nutritionist who specializes in grain-related conditions, including gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, other autoimmune diseases, and grain allergies and addictions, and also sugar- and insulin-related health conditions, including excess weight, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, diabetes and prediabetes. She coaches and counsels clients long distance over the phone and gives presentations to healthcare professional and mainstream audiences throughout the United States and Canada. She also writes the Against the Grain Nutrition News & Notes blog and 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 internationally recognized author of the groundbreaking Going Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health and the new companion guide Gluten Free Throughout the Year. She also is the author of User's Guide to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes Naturally and the coauthor of the national bestseller Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance. Her other books include Why Am I Always So Tired, User's Guide to Vitamin E and User's Guide to Chromium.

Melissa has been a regular contributor and the Go Gluten Free columnist for the nationally distributed magazine Better Nutrition since 2008. Her work has been written about in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Woman's World, First for Women magazine, New Zealand Woman's Weekly, and on WebMD, About.com, and Celiac.com. 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, 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 more than fifteen years of clinical nutrition experience to stay up to date on cutting-edge nutrition research and provide clients with personalized timely 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.

Melissa recently has become interested in educating the public about the important but largely overlooked issue of genetically modified foods in our food supply. She currently serves as the Director of Education for the GMO Free Project of Tucson and is a member of the Institute for Responsible Technology's Non-GMO Tipping Point Network.

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