Elaine Magee is positively passionate about changing the way America eats—one recipe at a time! Her national column, THE RECIPE DOCTOR, appears in newspapers such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Democrat and Chronicle, Hartford Courant, Honolulu Advertiser, and magazines such as Today’s Health & Wellness. In the column—which she has been writing for the past decade—she performs recipe “makeovers,” in which she is able to bring down the calories, fat, saturated fat, and sometimes sugar and sodium while at the same time increasing fiber, phytochemicals, omega-3s, and monounsaturated fat. Elaine “doctors” real recipes while retaining the original good taste. And she keeps it easy. She believes that if there is a shortcut in the kitchen, you should take it!
Elaine is the author of more than 25 books on nutrition and healthy cooking, with her most recent book being FOOD SYNERGY (Rodale, March 2008). Elaine’s medical nutrition series includes TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I HAVE DIABETES, TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I HAVE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I HAVE ACID REFLUX. Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold, and they are now being distributed all over the world, including China, Russia, Spain, Indonesia, and Arabic countries. New editions of these three books in the series will be released October–December 2008.
Elaine is a nutrition expert/writer for WEBMD.com, SilverPlanet.com, and magazines across the country, and she appears frequently on radio, educational videos, and television shows. She has appeared on Eye on the Bay in San Francisco, the Fine Living Network, the CBS Evening News, Mornings On 2 in San Francisco, and AM Northwest in Portland. She also conducted monthly healthy cooking segments for the Saturday morning news on NBC–San Francisco for two years. For two years before that, Elaine performed the “Light Cooking” segment for the KSBW-TV (NBC) midday news in Salinas, California. She was the writer and guest on a video with Teri Garr on multiple sclerosis and with Shekhar Challa, M.D., on “The Heartburn Friendly Kitchen.”
Elaine graduated as the Nutrition Science Department “Student of the Year” from San Jose State University with a bachelor of science in nutrition and a minor in chemistry. She also obtained her master’s degree in public health nutrition from UC-Berkeley and is a registered dietitian. She was a nutrition instructor at Diablo Valley College for two years and the nutrition marketing specialist (California Department of Health) for the now national “5 a Day” health program for three years.
Other recent projects:
* Elaine is getting ready to launch her internet cooking show (stay tuned).
* Elaine was part of a satellite media tour in November 2007 on the topic of heartburn and the holidays.
* Elaine was the recipe developer for Pfizer pharmaceuticals, providing recipes to its website specific to three medical issues: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and diabetes.
