Maria Sakowitz, MS, RDN, LDN, recently published “Do Food Labels Drive Your Crazy? A Simple Start to Basic Nutrition Knowledge.”
With more than 20 years of experience in the field of nutrition counseling, Sakowitz witnessed how few people know what to focus on when reading a food label. Learn how the body functions and utilizes the carbohydrates, protein and fat needed on a daily basis.
Sakowitz is president of Nutrition Associates of East Brunswick, Inc., a large private practice group of registered dietitians since 1998.
She developed the Super 15 and Action Tract programs for Nutrition Teaching Tools, LLC, in 2005, providing a visual, multicultural teaching tool for a wide spectrum of health-care professionals all over the world.
She also taught a six-month curriculum using visual teaching tools she developed for the Healthy Living Program at two University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ) facilities.
The Ely Lilly research program focused on weight gain associated with taking antipsychotic medications is titled “Managing Weight Gain in Schizophrenics Taking Atypical, Antipsychotic Medications” (The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, April 2004) and “Managing Atypical Antipsychotic-Associated Weight Gain: 12 Month Data on a Multimodal Weight Control Program.” Following the successful results of these clients her work was published by Ely Lilly’s revised Nutrition Protocol materials.
Sakowitz has been in private practice since 1995. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition from Rutgers University, a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ) School of Health Related Professions in Newark, and completed a one-year internship in Dietetics from UMDNJ.
She has been the assistant director and director at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation for seven years; she assisted and then managed the department for food and nutrition. She also managed a staff of more than 20 people in the food service department.
