Sylvia Meléndez-Klinger
Get Moving
Daily exercise helps maintain a healthy weight, strengthens your bones, reduces stress and benefits overall health. Exercise doesn't have to be a trip to the gym. Choose physical activities that involve the whole family, such as bicycling, soccer, dancing or walking the dog. Try to be physically active every day.
Get Colorful
Let the food pyramid guide your food choices. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables provides beneficial vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that help prevent diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Vary your veggies and fruits depending on the season. Include fresh fruits and vegetables in every meal such as bananas, avocados, papayas, mangoes, zucchini, corn, squash, onions, tomatoes and sweet peppers. The choices are endless! A colorful diet offers plenty of nutritional benefits.
About Sylvia
Sylvia Meléndez-Klinger, registered dietitian and certified personal trainer, is founder of Hispanic Food Communications, a food communications and culinary consulting company.

A leading expert in cross-cultural Hispanic cuisine as it relates to nutrition and health, Ms. Klinger speaks both English and Spanish fluently. She has an impressive knowledge of Hispanic foods and culture and uses her deep culinary and cultural expertise to introduce new strategies that maximize exposure among an increasing health-conscious Hispanic population. Ms. Klinger leverages the tasteful Latin cuisine and lifestyle of health-conscious Hispanics with the increasing health problems fast approaching this population today. Ms. Klinger is also a culinary consultant to food and beverage companies such as The Coca-Cola, Hormel Foods, Ross Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Dannon, AztraZeneca, and Weight Watchers International where she has completed numerous administrative and communications projects.

Ms. Klinger has appeared on NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN Spanish, Univision, Telemundo, America Teve, TV Azteca, Telefutura. She has made many guest appearances on popular shows such as Despierta America (where she is a regular guest), Hispanics Today, 4 San Antonio Living, and Cada Día con Maria Antonieta, as well as numerous appearances on local Hispanic cable stations. She has been a guest nutritionist on many local Hispanic radio talk shows and currently writes for popular magazines such as Latina Magazine and Hispanic Business South Florida.

Prior to establishing her consulting firm, Ms. Klinger served as senior culinary development specialist and supervisor of consumer test kitchens at the Quaker Oats Company. She has solid clinical and public health nutrition experience, serving as a research dietitian at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and the University of California Irvine Medical Center, as well as a supervising nutritionist for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supplemental feeding program. She began her career as an administrative dietitian at New England Memorial Hospital in Boston.

Ms. Klinger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics and nutrition from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California in 1984 and her Master of Science in public administration from DePaul University in Chicago in 1993. She is a registered dietitian of the American Dietetic Association and a licensed dietitian in the State of Illinois. In 1994, the Chicago Dietetic Association named her Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year.

In her spare time, Ms. Klinger trains for and runs marathons.