Dr. Schwartz’s program of research primarily focuses on the documentation of nutrition misinformation and nutrition fraud on the internet. In the past three years, she had assessed nutrition misinformation in the areas of diabetes, oncology and weight control. She has identified ways to help the consumer distinguish the differences between evidence based sites and those containing misinformation. In addition, she is interested in the application of motivational interviewing and the transtheoretical model in the area of nutrition counseling.
