AgainstThe Grain Nutrition


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 author of the groundbreakingGoing Against the Grain: How Reducing and Avoiding Grains Can Revitalize Your Health and the new companion guide Gluten Free Throughout the Year: A Two-Year, Month-to-Month Guide for Healthy Eating. 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 the "Go Gluten Free" columnist for Better Nutrition magazine for more than two years. She also writes nutrition-related articles for other magazines and publications, including DiabetesInControl.com, Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, Body & Soul's Holistic Health, Yoga Journal, and Delicious Living.

Melissa combines the investigative research skills she honed in journalism school with her nutrition training and more than fifteen years of 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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