Biography
Elaine Magee, MPH, RD
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Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, 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 Hartford Courant and 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” 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. Magee “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!
Magee is the author of more than 25 books on nutrition and healthy cooking, with her most recent book being Food Synergy. Magee’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, and four others. 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 were released in 2008.
Magee is a nutrition expert/writer for WebMD.com, and she appears frequently on radio and television shows. She has appeared on Good Morning Texas, Eye on the Bay in San Francisco, the Fine Living Network, the CBS Evening News, Mornings On 2 in San Francisco, and others. She also conducted monthly healthy cooking segments for the Saturday morning news on NBC in San Francisco for two years. For two years before that, Elaine performed the “Light Cooking” segment for the KSBW-TV midday news in Salinas, Calif. She was the writer and guest on a video with Teri Garr on multiple sclerosis and with Shekhar Challa, MD, on The Heartburn Friendly Kitchen.
Magee graduated as the nutrition science department “Student of the Year” from San Jose State University with a bachelor of science in nutrition. She also obtained her master’s degree in public health nutrition from the University of California-Berkeley and is a registered dietitian. She was a nutrition instructor at Diablo Valley College for two years and the nutrition marketing specialist (at the California Department of Health) for the now national “5-a-Day” health program for three years.
