The Pathway: Follow the Road to Health and Happiness
Laurel Mellin, M.A., R.D., is an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. She is the director of the Institute for Health Solutions, and is the author ofThe Solution: 6 Winning Ways to Permanent Weight LossandThe Shapedown Program.Mellin lectures extensively to health professionals and self-help groups and has appeared onOprah, Today, Good Morning America,and theCBS Evening News.Her work has been featured inTime, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Health, Shape,andU.S. News & World Report.She lives with her three children in Marin County, California.