• Has been privileged to study with some of the brightest minds in the field of nutrition and natural medicine and counts as friends several of the superstars.
• Served as President of the National Nutritional Foods Association during crucial phases of the struggle to preserve consumers choices that surrounded the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. She was very influential in drafting and passing that landmark legislation and received the association’s 2002 Crusader Award. http://www.nnfa.org
• Served on the Board of Trustees for Bastyr University, a fully accredited medical school teaching natural medicine. http://www.bastyr.org/
• Helped found Texans for Health Freedom to protect citizen’s right to choose alternative medical treatments and led the group to victory.
• Is a former recipient of AWIN “Woman of the Year in Natural Foods”
• Has been married to Bill Whittekin for almost 3 decades. Suezi, (a Shi Tzu previously orphaned but now spoiled rotten) provides comic relief in the nest otherwise left empty by her grown child and 3 stepchildren.
