M.J. Smith

M.J. Smith, RD, FADA, is a registered dietitian and fellow of the American Dietetic Association. She is licensed to practice dietetics in Iowa and has spent twenty years teaching families how to make food choices to manage disease and foster daily vitality. She has written twelve books about nutrition and health, which together have sold more than 400,000 copies. Her book Diabetic Low Fat and No-Fat Meals in Minutes won a National Health and Wellness Bronze Award from the National Health Information Awards Program. Another, Brand Name Low Fat Meals in Minutes, was a Doubleday Book Club selection and sold more than 100,000 copies. Smith's work has appeared in USA Today, Good Housekeeping, Shape, Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens Hometown Cooking, Essence, Good Taste, Diabetes in the News, The Lutheran, Today's Health and Wellness and many health and Midwest regional publications.