Joyce Hendley

Joyce’s writing about health and nutrition is informed by science, along with the nourishing wisdom of traditional medicine practitioners and home cooks all over the world. A James Beard award winner with a master’s degree in nutrition and food science, she has contributed to over 20 cookbooks and authored a few of her own—including the James Beard award-winning EatingWell Diet (with Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD). A longtime freelance writer who’s passionate about exploring the connections between food and health, she has written for EatingWell, DiabeticLiving, VeryWell Health, Optum Health, Oscar, the Bell Institute for Health and Nutrition, and more. Her former positions include food editor for Weight Watchers Magazine and associate food editor for Glamour; she began her career as a medical copywriter. But her favorite gig (so far) was being an assistant coach for her kids’ high school Junior Iron Chef teams. Joyce lives in Cortez, Florida, with her husband and son, and believes there’s nothing a good walk on the beach won’t cure, or at least improve.