About Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.

A consultant to the Beautiful Minds: Finding Your Lifelong Potential campaign including America's Brain Health Index, Elizabeth Somer is a registered dietitian who is also well versed in nutrition research. For 30 years she has kept herself aware of the current research in the nutrition field. Elizabeth received her bachelor's degree in foods and nutrition from Oregon State University and her master's degree in community health from Ohio State University. She has completed some doctoral work at the University of Oregon, and has taught college-level courses at Willamette University, Ohio State, Western Oregon University, Linfield College in Oregon, and University of California at San Diego's Extension Program.

Somer has written many books, including: "Eat Your Way to Happiness," "The 10 Habits That Mess Up a Woman's Diet," "The Food & Mood Cookbook," "The Origin Diet," "Food & Mood," "Age-Proof Your Body," "Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy," "Nutrition for Women" and "The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals." She also co-authored "The Nutrition Desk Reference," which is in its third edition.

Somer has served as editor of the Nutrition Report and as editor-in-chief of Nutrition Alert, newsletters that abstract the current nutrition research from more than 6,000 journals. She is also advisory board member to Shape, past editorial board member to Healing Lifestyles and contributing editor to Eating Well. She's also written more than 300 articles in national magazines from Shape, Men's Fitness, McCalls, and Self to Redbook, Prevention, Cosmopolitan, Fitness and Better Homes & Gardens.

Somer appears frequently on NBC's "Today Show," monthly on "AM Northwest" (KATU, Channel 2 in Portland, Oregon), and regularly on numerous national television shows, including "The Dr. Oz Show," "The View," CNN "WB Morning Buzz," and several cable stations. She also was nutritional correspondent for ABC's "Good Morning America" from 1996 through 1999 and a monthly guest on NBC's "Later Today" from 1999 through 2000. Her one-hour PBS special on nutrition and aging aired nationally in 2001.

Somer specializes in offering practical and insightful information on how to eat and supplement; how food affects mood; how to prevent disease and premature aging; how to have a healthy pregnancy; and attaining and maintaining a healthy weight.

To speak with Elizabeth Somer, please contact Lindsey Rose at (612) 375-8516 or lindsey.rose@clynch.com.