The Keys To Healthy Living with Chronic Diseases for African Americans

About the Book

This manual is designed to help the non-nutrition health professional obtain the basic information necessary to provide initial counseling and/or monitoring of patients / clients, and in particular the African American patient with nutrition related chronic illnesses.

About the Author

Cheryl Campbell Atkinson PhD, RDN, LDN, received her BS in Food Science and Management from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1977, her MPH in Nutrition Fron Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and her PhD in Intrnational Nutrition from Cornell University in 1993. She is a registered dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a licensed dietitian/nutiritionist (LDN), and a member of both the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She has worked in private practice as a clinical dietitian in Baltimore, Maryland and New Orleans, Louisiana and as a faculty member at Tulane University, in New Orleeans. Presently she is a a faculty member at Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cheryl Atkinson is a native of the island of Jamaica, West Indies. She is also a wife and a mother of three wonderful children.