About the Author
Lisa Tartamella is a nutritionist at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Centers of Nutrition, where she provides nutrition and wellness counseling to both adult and pediatric patients. In 1997, she was named Young Dietitian of the Year. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Elaine Herscher is a senior editor at Consumer Health Interactive, an online health and medical news organization in San Francisco. Her work on the San Francisco Chronicle AIDS reporting team resulted in a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1989. She lives in San Francisco, California. Chris Woolston is a contributing editor at Consumer Health Interactive, where he writes about nutrition, children’s health, and obesity. He lives in Billings, Montana.