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Colette Heimowitz, M.Sc. works directly with medical professionals, health influencers and consumers to educate them about a sustainable way of doing a well-constructed low carb diet to promote health. Heimowitz is a NY Times best-selling author and brings a wealth of nutritional knowledge and experience as the Vice President of Nutrition, at Simply Good Foods Company. She has 25-plus years of experience as a nutritionist, which includes the time she spent with Dr. Atkins as Director of Nutrition at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in NYC. Heimowitz is involved in the medical community, attending a variety of events and conferences to keep up with the latest research and meet other experts in the field. She sits on the Science Advisory Board at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York and speaks to students on the importance of controlled carbohydrate nutrition. She is also an advisory board member of the Industry Nutrition Forum Advisory Panel of AHA, a member of the advisory panel for Health Core, and sits on the Corporate Advisory Panel Dept. of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at the University of Missouri. In addition, she has created a research library of scientific research studies that demonstrate the impact nutrition has on health issues such as weight loss and weight management, heart disease, prediabetes and diabetes. As a nutrition expert, she has been featured on national television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Heimowitz also regularly contributes her nutritional expertise to the print media. Previously, Heimowitz was the Director of Nutrition at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. Prior to her role at the Center, she directed nutritional departments at several medical practices, including World Health Medical Group (New York City), and Integrative Medicine Center (New York City). Her clinical contributions include creating and directing patient-specific routines and designing modified sports nutrition programs. That experience included setting up nutrition departments in physician offices, creating educational materials and dietary plans, as well as providing individual consultations. She earned her Masters of Science (M.Sc.) from Hunter College in New York, New York.