Frances Sizer, M.S., RD, FADA, is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association. She is also a founding member and vice president of Nutrition and Health Associates, a Florida-based information and resource center that maintains an online bibliographic database tracking system that conducts research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition. In addition to the best-selling Nutrition: Concepts And Controversies 13th edition, Frances was a primary author of the first ever instructional and animated Nutrition Interactive Cd-Rom (Cengage Wadsworth). Her previous publications include Nutrition Clinics, a monograph series for health professionals, and the college textbook The Fitness Triad: Motivation, Training, And Nutrition. In addition to writing, enjoying with her family, and schooling her horse in dressage, Frances is also an active board member of ECHO, a local homelessness and hunger relief organization in her community. Frances received her B.S. and M.S. in nutrition from Florida State University.