Linda Arpino, RDN, CDN, FAND (Life Focus Nutrition) offers family and individual nutrition services using a plant-based approach to teaching the power of food as medicine in chronic disease prevention. As a former delegate of the Vegetarian Nutrition dietetics practice group, Linda developed educational resources and continues to provide lectures to Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics members and healthcare professionals about the power of nutrition for treating many chronic diseases.

Currently Linda is President of the Connecticut Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Her specialties include pediatrics, dyslipidemias, type 2 diabetes, weight management and vegetarian nutrition in all ages of life. She is a contributing author for a medical text on using a plant based diet to manage gastric reflux.