She is also host of the popular weekly "Lean Plate Club" online Web chat at washingtonpost.com, and she writes a weekly e-mail "Lean Plate Club" newsletter that has 250,000 subscribers throughout the world. Her articles have appeared in numerous national publications, including Reader's Digest and Parade. Her most recent book is "Secrets of the Lean Plate Club" (St. Martins Press, 2006). She is the first journalist to be named an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education and is the recipient of the American Heart Association's Howard L. Lewis Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Washington, D.C.