About Dr. Susan Mitchell

Family Circle calls her their “go-to nutrition girl” who understands the belief that healthy food should taste good.

Thousands of faithful listeners tune in to hear Dr. Mitchell's podcast on WDBO.com, her radio segments on Orlando's FM 96.5 & AM 580 News Talk WDBO radio and read her blog. A 15-year radio veteran and known for her smart, sassy straight talk about food and fitness, Dr. Mitchell helps you navigate through the hype of conflicting nutrition information.

Taking the science of nutrition and turning it into easy-to-follow health messages that people understand and want to live by, Dr. Mitchell has inspired and literally turned thousands of fad diet divas into healthy lifestyle activists who now live with better health, increased energy and heightened creativity.

An award-winning licensed nutritionist, registered dietitian and Fellow of the American Dietetic Association, Dr. Mitchell earned her Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee. She taught nutrition and health science at The University of Central Florida for over 8 years.

Susan is on the Health Advisory Board of Family Circle magazine and has served as consultant to Target, ThirdAge.com and a wide variety of food companies, PR firms and associations. She is the co-author of three books— Fat is Not Your Fate, I'd Kill for a Cookie and Eat to Stay Young as well as a contributing author to Macmillan Reference USA's Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z.

A reliable source to the media, Dr. Mitchell has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, and the TV Food Network and is quoted extensively in magazines including Reader's Digest, Fitness, and Cooking Light.

Susan loves cats, loves to cook and freely admits to being a chocoholic who never met a chocolate she doesn't like.