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Search Ask the Dietitian About Joanne Larsen
 
Joanne Larsen is a licensed, registered dietitian with extensive clinical experience in nutrition therapy in hospitals, clinics, mental health and long term care. She has a bachelor's degree in dietetics with a minor in chemistry and a master's degree in nutrition with a minor in counseling. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Society for Nutrition Education. As the editor for the American Dietetic Association's new online diet manual covering over 70 diseases, Joanne developed a research based nutrition practices manual with patient education materials. It is used by thousands of dietitians in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and private practice. For the Society for Nutrition Education, she has published product review articles in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Ask the Dietitian® website launched July 1995 and maintained by Joanne Larsen is one of the early nutrition websites on the Internet. This website has won many awards. Joanne is often interviewed as a nutrition expert for television, radio, newspaper and magazine nutrition articles. Since 1989, Joanne has designed nutrition analysis software as well as ingredient, food and recipe databases for several software companies. Starting in 1995, she created web applications and nutrition content for many successful Internet companies. Since 2000, Joanne has developed nutrition applications for PDAs as well as marketing health technology products such as a bar code scanner for consumers to make healthier food choices. In 1995, Joanne wrote "Edmund's Food Ratings for Dieters" which sold over 10,000 copies in 6 months. She created the food ratings to help consumers compare how well a food fit in their weight loss plan. Her teaching experiences at the University at Minnesota Duluth and two Minnesota Community Colleges provided her with the opportunity to share her knowledge as well as clinical experience as a nutrition educator with students. Joanne's passion is helping people make healthier food choices and developing tools to help them take control of their eating. Her skills are integrating health information with technology for consumer and professional markets. Ask the Dietitian®, Healthy Body Calculator®, Healthy Kid Calculator® and HELP Healthy Eating for Life Plan® are registered trademarks of Joanne Larsen. If your company needs marketing for or development of a health or nutrition technology product, contact Joanne Larsen below. If you are a member of the media and need a nutrition expert for your article, please contact Joanne Larsen below and include "interview" in subject field in the form. Search Ask the Dietitian |
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