For more than twenty-two years, Elisa Zied was a nationally recognized and award-winning registered dietitian nutritionist, sharing her expertise and real-world approach to nutrition and a healthy lifestyle with consumers. As a freelance health and nutrition writer, contributing editor, national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (for six years), and American Council on Exercise certified personal trainer, Elisa garnered millions of media impressions on national television programs including Good Morning America, Today, and The Early Show, and in print and online publications including People, Reader’s Digest, Parade, Redbook, Seventeen, Women’s Health, Women’s Day, Weight Watchers, Glamour, Shape, Parents, Ladies’ Home Journal, Fitness, All You, Self, Prevention, O, Men’s Fitness, U. S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, USA Today, WebMD, Forbes, SUCCESS, and NBCNews. com. She was also a keynote or guest speaker at several professional and consumer events, and was the featured nutrition expert in several satellite media tours, most notably for the Got Milk? campaign in 2010.
In 2007, Elisa received the Media Excellence Award by the New York State Dietetic Association.
Younger Next Week (Harlequin Nonfiction, 2014), Elisa’s fourth title, was the winner of a USA Best Book Award and two National Health Information Awards of Merit. Previous titles include Nutrition At Your Fingertips (Alpha, 2009), also a winner of a Best Books USA award and a National Health Information Award of Merit and Feed Your Family Right! (Wiley, 2007) and So What Can I Eat?! (Wiley, 2006), both co-authored with Ruth Winter.
Elisa earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in clinical nutrition from New York University. Most recently, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago (online). She is currently working as a freelance editor and continues to write (mostly fiction).
Elisa is an avid walker and amateur photographer, and loves music, Broadway musicals, movies, television shows (especially Saturday Night Live), bookstores and books (especially fiction or memoirs), and anything related to home decorating or organizing, or flowers/gardens. Born and raised in New York, she lives in Manhattan with her wonderful husband, and is the proud mother of two entrepreneurial sons, both in their twenties.
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