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Luise Light, MS, EdD

What to Eat

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What to Eat: The Ten Things You Really Need to Know to Eat Well and Be Healthy, shows us that before we say grace over our meals, we should have a good idea of what we are about to bless. While a sandwich of fresh, whole grain, home-baked bread, organic vegetables, and a piece of organic meat might have delicious and healthful ingredients that can be counted on one hand, the staggering number of ingredients in a fast-food cheeseburger (sans vegetables) may include up to 113 different pesticide residues, chemicals, industrial fats, corn syrup, and a dozens of other synthetic ingredients most humans cannot spell much less digest properly, ingredients humans never consumed before the current era.

The book also contains the true events of a national nutrition scandal witnessed first hand, and the real truths that underlie a healthy eating approach that can peel off the extra pounds, strengthen your heart, your bones and your digestive system, without special pills, potions and eating regimens. It should be in every home in America.

— Mary Sparrowdancer

Luise Light, MS, EdD, former USDA Director of Dietary Guidance and Nutrition Education Research, was responsible for the original food guide pyramid and revamping USDA's nutrition information. Hired as an expert to develop new nutrition and cancer prevention programs, she devised the National Cancer Institute's first diet and cancer prevention guidelines, and directed national health promotion programs with supermarkets, the American Cancer Society, the Red Cross, schools, and State health departments. After the Cancer Institute, she founded and led a Washington-based nonprofit organization that educated the media, Congress and the public about cutting edge, controversial health and nutrition issues that were the subject of high profile, disinformation campaigns by industry interests.

Dr. Light is the author of The Menopause Advisor, a non-partisan sources of up-to-date information on diet, fitness, supplements, and treatments for menopuase, including a critical review of major research documenting the significant health risks of taking hormone treatments. She is also the voice behind The Prempro Advisor, a source of basic legal information for anyone concerned about the health ramifications of taking Prempro, the major drug treatment for menopausal symptoms. Based on her book What to Eat, the radio show What to Eat may be heard live on WOOL FM from 2 to 3 pm (ET) Sunday afternoons.

Dr. Light has been health editor of Vegetarian Times and executive editor of New Age Journal. She now teaches, counsels, and writes in Vermont

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