Dawn Jackson Blatner is a registered and licensed dietitian in Chicago, Ill. She is a national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association with over 1,000 media impressions in outlets such as The Dr. Oz Show, USA Today, Dateline, Newsweek, Cooking Light and WebMD. Dawn is the nutrition consultant for the Chicago Cubs, a food and nutrition blogger with USA Today and a nutrition expert on the advisory board of Fitness magazine. She has a healthy eating television segment on NBC Chicago called "Take a Bite" and is an instructor at the Chopping Block where she teaches flexitarian cooking classes.

As a freelance writer, she contributes health and wellness articles to magazines such as Health, Fitness and Ladies Home Journal. She is a co-author of Counseling Overweight Adults (American Dietetic Association, 2009) and author of The Flexitarian Diet (McGraw Hill, 2009.) She is currently working on a new diet book for Health magazine.

She has worked as the dietitian for Lifetime Television and with a national healthfood chain, exclusive spas, DePaul University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital Wellness Institute. Dawn has over 10 years experience working with clients to improve health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer.

What People Are Saying about Dawn:

• "Chicago's Most Quoted Dietitian," Crain’s Chicago Business
• "One of Chicago's Elite Females," Chicago Sun-Times
• "One of the Best Nutritionists in the Country," Fitness Magazine