Viji Sundaram is the health editor with New America Media. Before joining NAM in 2006, Viji was a general assignment reporter with India-West, a national weekly published in San Leandro. Prior to that, she worked variously at the Cape Cod Times, Providence Journal, and New Bedford Standard Times. She has won nine journalism awards, including one for her expose on McDonald’s use of beef in its so-called vegetarian french fries.