Gerda Endemann

Bio: I’m a nutrition educator specializing in fat nutrition and health. I provide individual consultations, teach classes, and give seminars, on using evidence-based nutrition to prevent heart disease, low energy, headaches, digestive problems, and other health concerns. My background is in nutritional science, including a B.S. in Nutrition and Food science from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from M.I.T. For many years I carried out basic scientific research on nutrition, heart disease, and fat metabolism, until I started a business in nutrition education in 2002 in the San Francisco bay area. More info at www.HealthyFat.com, Endemann@HealthyFat.com, or 650-814-4914.

Inspiration: I started my business when I realized how much people could benefit from access to the huge, untapped body of nutritional science, in addition to any nutritional advice they may receive from medical doctors, dieticians, and naturopaths. Current nutrition education consists of fragmented bits of information, either blown out of proportion by journalists, for example the hype about antioxidants, or simplified to the point of little use or actual harm, for example public health agencies saying “don’t eat fat”. In order to dispel some of the myths about eating fat, I wrote “Fat Is Not The Enemy”, a book about the relationships between fat nutrition and heart disease, cancer, blood sugar, and weight control (http://www.healthyfat.com/fat_not_enemy.html).