Lucy Atkins is a well-known British health writer. For the past fifteen years she has written features for UK newspapers, primarily The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Express, The Times, as well as magazines such as Red, Woman and Home, Psychologies, Grazia, and many mother and baby titles. She is the author of three books, and is also a ghost writer, recently writing two health books for a celebrity author, both published by a major UK publisher. Lucy has been a media commentator on health and family issues, online, in vodcasts, on radio and on television and has taught journalism at graduate level.