David Katz Healthcare Expert

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM, is the Founding Director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, and former President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 15 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both preventive medicine, and nutrition. He has made important contributions in the areas of lifestyle interventions for health promotion; nutrient profiling; behavior modification; holistic care; and evidence-based medicine. David earned his BA degree from Dartmouth College (1984); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed sequential residency training in Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He is a two-time diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He has received two Honorary Doctorates.

 
Nutrient Supplements and Summary Judgment: Baby and Bathwater, Revisited Again

Nutrient Supplements and Summary Judgment: Baby and Bathwater, Revisited Again

In common, I suspect, with most members of my professional clan- specialists in Preventive Medicine- I have a respect bordering on reverence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

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Bunk, Junk, and Food: On Defending a Line

Bunk, Junk, and Food: On Defending a Line

Food is not junk; junk is not food. Food is the native fuel of the remarkable machine that is our body. 

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Gun Control Judo: of Gun Rights, and the Right to Life

Gun Control Judo: of Gun Rights, and the Right to Life

Those of us who have lamented the twisted, blighted, calamitous relationship between America and guns many times over the years doubtless all feel the same virulent admixture of impulses in this moment: the desperate need to say or do something, and the dread of futility. 

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Dubious Diet Science: On the Perils of Ultraprocessed Food for Thought

Dubious Diet Science: On the Perils of Ultraprocessed Food for Thought

There is a vociferous choir of critics that makes its living, or some portion thereof, implying we know nothing reliably about dietary intake patterns and human health outcomes. 

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The Better Pandemic That Might Have Been

The Better Pandemic That Might Have Been

With updated estimates of total pandemic mortality reverberating widely, we have cause to consider the pandemic experience that might have been.

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