Dr. Ian K. Smith is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Shred: The Revolutionary Diet, as well as Super Shred: The Big Results Diet, Blast the Sugar Out!, The Clean 20, and twelve other books, with millions of copies in print. His novels included the award-winning The Blackbird Papers, The Ancient Nine, and the first two books in the Ashe Cayne series, The Unspoken and Wolf Point. Dr. Smith is a graduate of Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, and is the medical contributor and cohost of The Rachael Ray Show.