Margaret A. Ohlson
American dietitian and writer
About Margaret A. Ohlson
Lived 1901 – 1996 (aged 94–95). Margaret A. Ohlson was a dietitian.
Margaret Alexander Ohlson (1901 – 5 October 1996) was an American dietitian and writer.
Ohlson was born in Chicago. She obtained her BA in Home Economics from Washington State College and her MS in nutrition and PhD in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Iowa. Ohlson was assistant professor in Home Economics Department at Michigan State College and at Iowa State College for 9 years. She was the head of the Food and Nutrition Department of Michigan State College. She was a pioneer of nutrition counseling.
Ohlson died at her residence in Seattle on 5 October 1996.
Selected publications Live Lean and Like It (1956) Handbook of Experimental and Therapeutic Diets (1962, with Ruth N. Lutz)
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