Tammy Lakatos Shames and Elysse ("Lyssie") Lakatos, The Nutrition Twins®, share more than identical features; they share a passion to teach people how to eat healthfully and exercise so they'll have tons of ENERGY to live happy lives. Over the past 13 years, they’ve focused their own limitless energy (which they get from the way that they eat, how they exercise and from their lifestyle) on building a thriving private practice in New York City helping thousands of individual and corporate clients.
The twins have been featured regularly as the nutrition experts on Good Morning America Health, The Discovery Health channel, Fox News Channel, NBC, Bravo, WABC-TV, WPIX-TV, CBS, The Learning Channel, FitTV, Oxygen Network, Fox & Friends and Fox 5's Good Day New York. They have also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show and The Doctors and numerous times on the Yahoo! home page in articles and videos.
The twins' approachable, common sense style has earned them editorial success. The twins co-authored the revolutionary nutrition book, Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever (Simon and Schuster) and The Secret to Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat and the 4-Week Plan to Drop A Size & Get Healthier with Simple Low Sodium Swaps (HCI Books). They have a new book due out in Spring 2013 that will be published by Globe Pequot Press, a division of Morris Book Publishing. In an exciting venture with Day-Timer®, they have developed a Wellness Planner and a Weight Management Planner which they have featured several times on QVC.
Tammy and Lyssie were named The Top Nutritionists to Follow by The Huffington Post. Additionally, the twins are nutrition experts and bloggers for celebrity and host of Dancing with the Stars Brooke Burke's wildly popular Modernmom.com site and have become sought-after contributors by many print and online publications, including Cosmopolitan, Self, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, InStyle, Woman's Day, EveryDay with Rachael Ray, Woman's World, Parents, First for Women, Oxygen, Muscle Media, OK! Magazine, Star Magazine, Fitness, Glamour, People, Health, O Magazine, Lifetime, Reader's Digest, The New York Daily News, Women's Health and Fitness, Health and Family Circle magazines. In addition, they have contributed to many online resources including WebMD.com, MSN.com, WeightWatchers.com, Discovery.com, Yahoo!, TLC.com, e-Diets.com, Fit to Be Tied and AOL Diet and Fitness. In addition to being the resident nutritionists for FitTV online, the twins have served as featured experts on numerous radio stations across the United States and around the world.
