Sun Shuxia

Sun Shuxia, female, was born in 1942 into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Harbin. She graduated from Northeast Agricultural University with a degree in biology in 1965 and is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2001, she founded the Food Nutrition and Safety Professional Committee of the China Health Care Association and served as its president. She has long been engaged in nutrition popularization and in training nutritionists and health management professionals, holds eight invention patents, and has edited more than 20 monographs and popular science books. Her writing focuses on health and food, covering vegetables, fruits, medicinal teas, and herbal dietary therapy, often presented in the quick-reference format. Emphasizing practicality and everyday applicability, her works address the dietary needs of the whole family and physical conditioning, and her long-standing work in diabetic dietary therapy has earned her the title of a leading authority in the field.