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Joan Salge Blake, MS, RD, LDN

Boston University

Joan Salge Blake is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Dietetics Internship Director at Boston University’s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Sargent College). She received her MS from Boston University and teaches both graduate and undergraduate nutrition courses. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine.

Joan is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association (MDA) and has been a presenter and Presiding Officer at both the ADA Annual Meeting and MDA Annual Convention. She has been a recipient of the Outstanding Dietitian (2009), Outstanding Dietetic Educator (2007) and Young Dietitian of the Year awards.  She also received the Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching Award from Boston University. Joan is an ADA National Media Spokesperson and conducts over 100 media interviews annually. Her nutrition segments can be seen regularly on Fox25 TV, Boston.

Nutrition & You: Core Concepts for Good Health is an exciting new title in the introductory consumer nutrition market. Drawing on the strengths cultivated in Joan Salge Blake’s majors and non-majors editions, this new text 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.

Through the use of short, focused concepts rather than longer chapters, this text provides you with practical information and engaging tools that help you make positive changes in your nutrition and overall health, while covering the elements essential to a consumer-oriented introductory nutrition course. It exceeds key competitors in the market through its targeted content, useful features, lively readability, and accessible design—all intended to engage you and encourage you to apply this new knowledge to your daily life.