Melissa Diane Smith is a leading nutrition speaker who gives presentations -- often in conjunction with book signings -- for healthcare professional, natural food retailer, corporate, college and mainstream audiences. She puts cutting-edge nutrition research into easy-to-understand terms and motivates audiences to regain or maintain their health (or their patients' health) in easy ways with optimal nutrition. Her most requested speaking topics include:

• Going Against the Grain for Health
• Preventing and Reversing Syndrome X with Nutrition
• Beyond Celiac Disease: The Spectrum of Gluten Sensitivity
• Eating for Optimal Health: Food as Your Best Medicine
• Defying Diabetes and Prediabetes
• Metabolic Syndrome: A Nutritional Disease with Nutritional Solutions
• What Every Woman with PCOS Should Know
• Gluten Sensitivity & Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Is There Any Connection?
• The Latest Hot Health Benefits of Chromium Picolinate
• Middle-Age Spread: The Onset of Carbohydrate Sensitivity?
• The Top Seven Reasons People Are Passing Up the Bread Basket

She also can customize a nutrition topic specifically for any group, depending on its needs. And she often participates in book signings to bring attention and large crowds to supplement and food vendor booths at various conferences.

A sampling of her speaking and/or book signing appearances include:

• Australian Integrative Medicine Association conference (keynote speaker) in Auckland, New Zealand, May 2008
• American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, August 2006
• The Third Annual "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: The Perfect Endocrine Storm" Conference, Tucson, Arizona, April 2006
• 32nd Annual American Association of Physician Assistants Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2004
• Nutritional Pathways to Health and Healing Conference for First Nations (Native American) People, Edmonton, Canada, April 2004
• Regular guest speaker for health and nutrition classes, University of Phoenix, Tucson, Arizona, 2004
• Defeat Autism Now! (DAN) Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2003
• Ohio Physician Assistants Conference, Dayton, Ohio, October 2002
• Celiac Sprue Association (CSA) Annual Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 2002
• American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2002
• General Nutrition Centers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 2002
• Natural Products Expo West (natural products) Convention, Anaheim, California, March 2001
• Nutrition for Optimal Health Association special event, Chicago, Illinois, October 2000
• 60th Annual American Diabetes Association Meeting and Scientific Sessions, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000

To inquire about her speaking rates, availability and topics that would be right for your event or group, please email Melissa at speaking@melissadianesmith.com.