Joan Salge Blake, EdD, RDN, LDN, FAND

Joan Salge Blake, EdD, RDN, LDN, FAND 

Joan Salge Blake, EdD, RDN, LDN, FAND is a Clinical Professor at Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.  She is the author of the Nutrition & You, Nutrition & You: Core Concepts to Good Health, and Nutrition: From Science to You.  She has received the 2020 Media Excellence Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). Joan was an AND National Media Spokesperson for close to a decade.  She has conducted over 2,000 media interviews and is a nationally sought-after nutrition media expert and speaker.  Her passion:  To help folks fight obesity, heart disease, and diabetes and other conditions  with a knife and a fork.  Joan’s  forte:  To take complex nutrition science and make it understand and doable to Joe- and Josephine-On-The-Street.   Her insight is SpotOn!, she’s Italian, and her humor is infectious.  For more on Joan click HERE

Books

Nutrition and You incorporates a personalized approach to reader’s nutritional concerns and interests in a readable, engaging, and motivating style. The photos, illustrations, and text present each topic in self-contained spreads, called Visual Summary Tables, that appeal to readers’ propensity for visual learning.  This format enables readers to identify the key aspects of each nutrient at a glance and in a consistent and easy-to-study format.

Nutrition: From Science to You builds on the strengths of its sister book Nutrition & You and takes a personal approach to introductory nutrition in the majors market. This book is geared towards visual learners and aids readers in applying the material they learn to themselves and their future clients and patients.

Nutrition & You: Core Concepts for Good Health is an exciting title in the introductory consumer nutrition market. Drawing on the strengths cultivated in Joan’s major and non-majors editions, this new book addresses the needs of the growing consumer market through a focused review of key nutrition topics and a hands-on, lively approach to useful information for everyday good nutrition and health.

Eat Right the E.A.S.Y. Way! shows you how to easily make better food choices, lose weight, fight heart disease, and lower you blood pressure…all while understanding the nutrition science behind these conditions and getting a good chuckle at the same time.

Source: http://blogs.bu.edu/salge/