About Allen

Allen Oelschlaeger is a classic entrepreneur with more interests than time in the day.

Here is brief summary of his background.

Allen grew up in the Northwest (central Oregon, Seattle) and attended college at Washington State University. While he changed majors many times, he ended up with degrees in biology and pharmacy (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), which led him to Philadelphia to participate in a hospital pharmacy residency program at Thomas Jefferson University.

He remained in Philadelphia for 6 years to practice as a hospital pharmacist and attend the Wharton School of Business (MBA, 1983). Then, for the next 12 years, his wife and him (and ultimately two great kids) lived in Indianapolis, Seattle, Toronto and Milwaukee as he ascended through various executive positions – primarily in marketing, sales and strategy – in the medical industry.

In 1995, Allen shifted his career from the corporate to the entrepreneurial world and, over the next six years, he got involved at a senior level in several technology start-up companies.

With that background, Allen quit having a real “job” in 1999 so he could focus on his true passions. His problem since then is that he had discovered he has too many of them.

You will be exposed to some of those interests in this blog — with a primary emphasis on his work related to weight loss, nutrition, and fitness.

In 2006, Allen took his education and experience, disgust with the antics of the weight-loss industry, and passion for helping his diabetic daughter and founded Truths Publishing, a publishing company focused on addressing the overwhelming volume of confusing, contradictory and inaccurate information available on the subjects of weight loss, nutrition, and fitness.

Since then, the company has published Allen’s Finally, the Straight Scoop About Weight, Nutrition, and Fitness, The Straight Scoop About Dieting by Sharon Greene Patton and the Health and Fitness Truths Website. Allen also writes two regularly-published health and fitness newsletters and contributes to several blogs.

Allen is now on a personal mission to discredit the mainstream and fad beliefs about weight loss that have so-obviously failed us (and which are totally unsupported by the evidence) – and to convince the world there is a completely different approach to losing weight that actually works due to its precise alignment with the true nature of human physiology.

More about Allen’s background related to weight loss

Allen is a premier expert on the topics of weight, nutrition and fitness who got fed-up and disgusted with the lack of truthful information on these subjects and became passionate about making it available.       

Where did his expertise come from?

Allen grew up in a family with weight problems so, from early childhood, he experienced all the struggles, the nagging, the health problems, the diets, the special foods, the programs. Without getting into all the gory details, Allen can definitely say he has “seen it all.”

Allen has a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. in Pharmacy, providing an education in human physiology, nutrition and pharmaceuticals few others can claim. He also has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

His work experience has been as a healthcare provider both in retail and hospital pharmacy and as a senior executive in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In these roles, Allen has gone on medical rounds with physicians, performed nutrition research, provided nutrition education to diabetics, and interacted at the highest levels within one of the largest drug companies in the U.S.

From the time Allen’s daughter was 8, he has had a second career as a diabetic mentor. Since 1994, he has gone to diabetes seminars, read books on diabetes, attended family-training workshops, and personally dealt with the day (and night) time issues created by this disease. As a result of having his daughter treated at a nationally-recognized children’s hospital, he learned from some of the world’s experts.

Allen has been a lifelong fanatical researcher on anything having to do with weight management, nutrition and fitness. He has read the books, studied the research, and tracked the results. Also, to directly experience what he was learning, Allen has personally tried a large number of the popular diets, health foods, supplements and exercise regimens.