JoAnna Lund
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JoAnna Lund | |
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recipes | |
Subject | Healthy Foods |
Notable works | Healthy Exchanges cookbooks |
Spouse | Daniel Dierickx
(m. 1966; div. 1978)Clifford Lund (m. 1979–2006) |
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JoAnna Margaret Lund (September 4, 1944 – May 20, 2006) was the author of many books, including Healthy Exchanges Cookbook, HELP: Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan, and Make a Joyful Table.[1]
Biography
JoAnna McAndrews was born in Davenport, Iowa, September 4, 1944, to Jerome McAndrews and Agnes Carrington. She graduated from high school in Lost Nation, Iowa and from the Western Illinois University.
In 1990, her son James, daughter Rebecca, and her son-in-law Matt, were all called into active duty during
Re-published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1993, it has since sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The cookbook proved to be only the beginning of Lund's career. The former self-proclaimed "diet queen" from DeWitt, Iowa authored several books and the founder of Healthy Exchanges, Inc., a company that publishes a monthly newsletter with a subscriber base of 15,000, motivational booklets and inspirational audio and video tapes. According to People Magazine, the company is a $1 million enterprise that employs 30 people.
After starting her business, Lund became a nationally known spokeswoman for healthier eating. She was elected to represent Iowa at President Clinton's White House Council on Small Business in 1995. During that same year, the Governor of Iowa appointed her to serve on the Iowa Rural Health & Primary Care Commission.
She hosted a weekly radio show on WOC Radio in DeWitt, Iowa and was featured in National publications such as The New York Times, People and Forbes. She has been interviewed on hundreds of regional television and radio shows, and is one of the top-selling cookbook authors on the television shopping channel, QVC Shopping network. During one hour-long appearance on QVC, she sold almost 200,000 books. In January 1997, she launched her own cooking show on PBS-TV, JoAnna Lund's HELP Yourself.
Lund was a member of the
Lund appeared on
Lund sold the most books on QVC, up to the time of her death in May 2006.
Death and legacy
JoAnna Lund died of inflammatory breast cancer on May 20, 2006, aged 61. She had asked that Healthy Exchanges continue after her death through books and the newsletter.[3] When she died, QVC even had a memorial flash screen remembering her the following weekend all day on the hour during the network broadcast.
References
- ^ "Amazon.com: JoAnna Lund". www.amazon.com.
- ^ "Penguin Group USA Biography".
- ^ "healthyexchanges.com". www.healthyexchanges.com.