Nan Fuchs, Ph.D. is an authority on nutrition and the editor and writer of Women's Health Letter, the leading health advisory on nutritional healing for women. She is the author of the best-selling books, The Nutrition Detective: A Woman's Guide to Treating your Health Problems Through the Foods You Eat, Overcoming the Legacy of Overeating, and the User's Guide to Calcium and Magnesium. Dr. Fuchs appears frequently on television and radio as expert on topics of nutrition, herbs, acupuncture, massage and stress reduction, and has been the researcher and author of dozens of articles for medical journals and consumer magazines and newspapers. For over 20 years Dr. Fuchs has run a thriving private nutritional counseling practice, currently in Sebastopol, California.