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Lisa R. Young is an American registered dietitian nutritionist, author, television and media personality, nutrition consultant and professor. Her published books include The Portion Teller, The Portion Teller Plan, and Finally Full, Finally Thin. She has also published numerous academic articles in peer-review journals on the contribution of US portion sizes to the obesity epidemic. Dr. Young appeared in the documentary movie Super Size Me.

She specializes in portion control and weight management, and she provides nutrition counseling on a variety of medical conditions.

Work as a Nutritionist
Young obtained her Bachelor of Science in Economics and Health Care Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Nutrition from New York University She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University.

Young is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN). She counsels clients on nutrition and health and lectures internationally on portion control and nutrition.

She served as an advisor to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on various portion control initiatives.

Young maintains a blog on portion sizes and other nutrition related matters. She is a contributing writer for US News & World Report. She is on the Medical Review Board of Eat This,Not That!.

Portion sizes
Dr. Young is best known for her advocacy work on portion control, to help people maintain a healthy weight. Her groundbreaking 2000 Ph.D. dissertation, on which she was advised by Dr. Marion Nestle, demonstrated how portion sizes of restaurant meals and packaged foods have increased over the years, contributing to the US obesity epidemic. She followed that up with multiple articles in peer-review journals that updated the data in her dissertation. Her books The Portion Teller, The Portion Teller Plan, and Finally Full, Finally Thin: 30 Days to Permanent Weight loss One Portion at a Time provide advice on managing portion sizes in one's life.

Academic papers
Dr. Young has published extensively in peer-review journals. Her published papers include
 * Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021 in the American Journal of Public Health
 * Reducing Portion Sizes to Prevent Obesity in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine
 * The Contribution of Expanding Portion Sizes to the US Obesity Epidemic in the American Journal of Public Health

Media work

 * Article on Healthy Portion Control on Consumer Reports website, March 2022
 * Interview with Dr. Young and Lisa Stollman on CNN website, November, 2021
 * Dr. Young Champions Mayor's Soda Ban in news on New York University website, September 2012
 * Article about celery juice on NBCNews.com, May 2019
 * Article about slow carbs on Today (American TV program) website, March 2019
 * Opinion piece encouraging people to regular-size portions on New York Daily News website, March 2019
 * Interview by Diet Detective website, January 2019
 * Dr. Lisa Young Segment on Vimeo from BBC series The Men Who Made Us Fat, 2012

Selected publications

 * The Portion Teller (Harmony Books, imprint of Crown Publishing Group, 2005) ISBN 0-7679-2068-6
 * The Portion Teller Plan (Harmony Books, imprint of Crown Publishing Group, 2014) ISBN 978-0-7679-2079-7
 * Finally Full, Finally Slim (Center Street, 2019) ISBN 978-1-4789-9302-5