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.
I was privileged this past week to give a talk on weight control to the work force at the US House of Representatives.
For reasons less than perfectly clear to me, Yahoo Finance keeps inviting me back to talk not about finance, but about the pandemic and public health.
The new CDC guidance regarding mask use has seemingly propagated confusion and consternation in comparable measure.
Knowledge, so the saying goes, is power. But even a cursory chew of the prevailing state of diet and health is cause for doubt about the power of knowledge, our knowledge of power, or maybe both.
At most, it’s a minor exaggeration to say that a single, scientific publication altered the trajectory of my career.
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