Sharon is a registered dietitian with 16 years of health care experience and special expertise in plan-based nutrition. She is a passionate about food and environmental issues, hunger, agriculture, local and organic foods, as well as eco-friendly sustainable safeand secure food. Over 850 of Sharon's features have appeared in publications, from Better Homes and Gardens to Prevention. She has authored two books:The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today (2012) and and Plant-Powered for Life: Eat Your Way to Lasting Health with 52 Simple Steps & 125 Delicious Recipes (2014). Sharon blogs, is editor for Environmental Nutrition and regularly appears in the media as a nutrition expert.