About Sandra J Gordon

Sandra J Gordon, freelance writer and journalist

Born in Nebraska, Sandra Gordon grew up shoveling manure and fixing fence on the cattle ranch on which she was raised. But the rural life was only her parents’ dream. In truth, Sandra didn’t particularly like manure or barbed wire, or even being outside for that matter because it meant manual labor. So she spent lots of time in the kitchen cooking and baking, which, she discovered, would temporarily absolve her of farm duties. She also sought refuge through magazines like Seventeen, which would later pave her escape. Flash forward. At age 19, while Sandra was a sophomore in college, she spent the summer working as an intern with Walt Disney World’s college program and living in a place called Snow White Village. She wrote about her experience, which was quickly published in Seventeen. After graduating from the University of Nebraska and spending an obligatory year in law school, Sandra, armed her Seventeen clip and a BA in English, make her break for the big city and landed her first job as an assistant food and nutrition editor at Glamour.

Today Gordon is one of the most sought-after and highly-respected food, nutrition, health and fitness writers in the industry. She has written literally hundreds of articles on diet, weight loss, general nutrition and fitness and has become one of the leading consumer journalists on the relationship between food and various diseases including cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease. Gordon’s articles have been featured in countless leading consumer magazines such as Prevention, More, Self, Redbook, Shape, Family Circle, Fitness, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cooking Light and Woman’s Day. In addition to her expertise in the food and nutrition areas, Gordon also writes extensively about parenting and baby safety topics for Parents, Parenting, ??Parents Expecting, American Baby and Fit Pregnancy.

Gordon is also the author of eight books including The Reunion Diet, Sunrise River Press, 2010, Consumer Reports Best Baby Products (8th, 9th and 10th editions), Consumers Union 2004, 2007 and 2009 respectively; Heart to Heart: Personal Lessons on Preventing Heart Disease, HCI, 2005; The Shy Single, Rodale Press, 2004; The Aging Eye, Simon & Schuster, 2001, and The 30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Formerly, Gordon was a health writer for HIP Health Plan, a New York City-based health maintenance organization. Gordon has appeared on The Today Show and The Discovery Channel’s Make Room for Baby as a baby safety expert as well as television news programs across the country as a spokesperson for Consumer Reports. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two daughters.