My two great loves (before I met my husband) were fashion and the brain. It sounds funny, I know, but I've actually met a lot of people along the way who share similarly disparate passions (especially those of us who did not start out in dietetics). Even though my family had been in the fashion business, they convinced me to pursue science. I was the great hope of the family, an only child in Jewish family. My parents were really hoping for me to be a doctor. After finishing a degree [...]