Specializing in nutritional lifestyle change since 1997, Nutritional Perspectives provides personal counseling and corporate consulting services for clients in the Triangle area and beyond. Through nutrition counseling, busy individuals and families learn to eat wisely, resulting in improved function and well-being; effective weight loss and maintenance; and reduction in disease symptoms and risk. Consulting services enable organizations to successfully transform dining services into venues of healthy choices for lifestyle change. Using evidence-based methods and cutting-edge nutrition information, Nutritional Perspectives offers solutions that work.

Nutritional Perspectives' owner and principal consultant. She holds a B.S. degree in Dietetics from Miami University in Oxford, OH, and an M.S. degree in Human Nutrition and Food Management from The Ohio State University. She is a Registered Dietitian, credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association. She is licensed to practice as a Dietitian/Nutritionist by the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition.

She has practiced professionally for 28 years in leadership roles in public health, foodservice management, college and university education, consulting, and counseling.

Mary serves on the North Carolina Dietetic Association (NCDA) Board of Directors. She is a recipient of NCDA's highest honor in recognition of distinguished service and visionary leadership at the national, state, and district levels. Currently, she is leading her profession's charge for reimbursement of medical nutrition therapy services by private insurers.