Sally Squires

SALLY SQUIRES
Health and nutrition columnist, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071  (Phone: 202-334-5018; e-mail: squires@washpost.com)

Sally Squires is a nationally known, award-winning medical and health writer for The Washington Post, where she also writes the weekly column, the Lean Plate Club, dedicated to helping consumers instill healthy eating and exercise habits. Each Tuesday, she hosts the popular Lean Plate Club on-line Web chat at www.washingtonpost.com and writes a weekly, e-mail Lean Plate Club newsletter, which reaches more than 250,000 subscribers and has one of the highest interactivity rates on the Internet. Participants in the Lean Plate Club come not just from inside the Beltway, but from coast to coast and throughout the world, from Australia to Spain.
Ms. Squires holds two master’s degrees from Columbia University: one in journalism, the other in nutrition. Her articles have also appeared in numerous national publications including Woman’s Day, Modern Maturity, Parade and Reader’s Digest. She is the author of “Secrets of the Lean Plate Club” (St. Martins Press, 2006) and co-author of “The Stoplight Diet for Children,” a scientifically proven behavioral program that was developed at the University of Pittsburgh with support from the National Institutes of Health and is designed to help overweight children lose weight safely and keep it off for good. She is at work on a PBS television documentary about the last leprosy hospital in the United States, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that features original music by Grammy Award-winner Bela Fleck.
In 2004, Ms. Squires became the first journalist named an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education, joining the ranks of former U.S. Surgeons General Drs. C. Everett Koop and David Satcher as well as other notables including Rosalyn Carter and Marian Wright Edelman. Her numerous other awards include: the American Heart Association’s Howard L. Lewis Lifetime Achievement Award, the North American Menopause Society Media Award; the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, and, with the Health section staff, has been honored four times with the Penney-Missouri award.