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Professional Profile

• Bio
  Joanna is one of Australia’s best-known nutrition and healthy lifestyle experts. She is a regular on the Nine Network as the official nutritionist for TODAY and is a judge on the new show Excess Baggage. Joanna is an author of several books including the award winning Inner Health Outer Beauty and the internationally published The Low GI Diet, and writes a weekly column in Sunday Life.
   
  Her accent gives her away as a Scot, but she made Australia her home in 1999 where she subsequently gained her PhD in nutritional science from the University of Sydney. Her university studies started with psychology, followed by a Bachelor of Science, all the while working as a fitness instructor, which she did for over 15 years. Together this gives her a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, and the best thing is she never sits on the health high horse! As a down-to-earth Scot, all her advice is tempered by what is practical, doable and fun whilst still giving the desired result.
  
  Joanna runs her nutrition consultancy company Dr Joanna Pty Ltd from Sydney's Eastern suburbs.
• Registration Numbers and Professional Memberships
  Joanna is a member of DAA, vice-president of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association and a member of The Nutrition Society and Sports Dietitians Australia. 
• Qualifications
  PhD Nutritional Science
  BSc(hons1) Nutrition & Dietetics
• Awards and Publications
  Australian Food Media Award for Best Diet, Nutrition or Health-related book for Inner Health Outer Beauty 2011.
  Australian Fitness Network Presenter of the Year 2006.
  Author or co-author of Inner Health Outer Beauty, Star Foods, The Low GI Diet, The Low GI Diet Cookbook and Reality Food.
• Areas Of Interest Weight Management Nutrition and Healthy Eating Vegetarian Eating