Dr. Marie Boyle received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern Maine and her M.S. and Ph.D. in nutrition from Florida State University. She is author of PERSONAL NUTRITION and COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION. Dr. Boyle is a Professor in the Foods and Nutrition Department at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey. She also teaches online graduate courses in applied nutrition at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Her other professional activities include membership in the American Public Health Association, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, as well as serving as an author and reviewer for the latter two organizations. She coauthored the current position paper of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Food and Nutrition Security in Developing Nations and serves as editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition" from Taylor & Francis Publishers.
Dr. Sara Long is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and is the Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics. Her areas of specialty are medical nutrition therapy, nutrition education, and food and nutrition assessment. She received her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale and is also a licensed dietician in Illinois. Sara Anderson is the author of several other texts, including Wadsworth's PERSONAL NUTRITION, Sixth Edition (2007), co-authored with Dr. Marie A. Boyle; MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY: A CASE STUDY APPROACH, Second Edition (2004), co-authored with Dr. Marcia Nahikian Nelms; and the new UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION THERAPY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, First Edition (2007), co-authored with Dr. Marcia Nahikian Nelms and Dr. Kathleen Sucher.