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iVillage contributor Madelyn H. Fernstrom, Ph.D., CNS, is the Today show’s Diet and Nutrition Editor as well as the Founder and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Weight Management Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has treated thousands of patients, and has published nearly 100 research papers in the field of diet and nutrition. She has a B.A. in biology from Boston University and a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry and metabolism from MIT.