Nutrition and Diet Therapy

About Amy de la HayeEleanor WhitneyKathryn PinnaLinda DeBruyne

Linda Kelly DeBruyne M.S. R.D. received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in nutrition and food science from Florida State University. She is a founding member of Nutrition and Health Associates an information resource center in Tallahassee Florida where her specialty areas are life cycle nutrition and fitness. Her publications include the textbooks NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY and HEALTH: MAKING LIFE CHOICES. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and maintains a professional membership in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Linda Kelly DeBruyne M.S. R.D. received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in nutrition and food science from Florida State University. She is a founding member of Nutrition and Health Associates an information resource center in Tallahassee Florida where her specialty areas are life cycle nutrition and fitness. Her publications include the textbooks NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY and HEALTH: MAKING LIFE CHOICES. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and maintains a professional membership in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Kathryn Pinna Ph.D. received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nutrition from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught nutrition food science and human biology courses in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years and also worked as an outpatient dietitian Internet consultant and freelance writer. Her publications include the textbooks NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE UNDERSTANDING NORMAL AND CLINICAL NUTRITION and NUTRITION AND DIET THERAPY. She is currently a member of the American Society for Nutrition and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Ellie Whitney PhD grew up in New York City and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and biology at Radcliffe/Harvard University and Washington Universities respectively. She has taught at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University has written newspaper columns on environmental matters for the Tallahassee Democrat and has authored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition health and related topics many of which have been revised multiple times over the years. In addition to teaching and writing she has spent the past three-plus decades exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology. Her latest book is Priceless Florida: The Natural Ecosystems (Pineapple Press 2004).