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Dr. Debra Krummel discusses cardiovascular risk factors that have a greater impact on women, as well as the vicious cycle of obesity in women and the next generation. She describes recent research concerning the effects of maternal obesity on the baby. Dr. Krummel discusses a three-step program for the prevention of chronic disease.

Dr. Krummel is a nationally recognized expert on cardiovascular health. She is an Endowed Associate Professor and Millennium Scholar in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Cincinnati.

Her areas of expertise are women’s cardiovascular health, obesity prevention in postpartum women, and fetal origins of cardiovascular disease. Currently, she is studying the relation between maternal obesity and diet to inflammatory markers in African-American women.

Dr. Krummel has published more than 50 papers and abstracts and given over 100 presentations in several countries. She is the co-editor of 3 books including Nutrition and Women’s Health, and the author of 17 book chapters.

Technorati Tags: Add new tag, cancer prevention, chronic disease, diabetes, Lifestyle Medicine, Nutrition, obesity, Women's Health

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Dr. Michael Ozner

Dr. Michael Ozner, author of The Miami Mediterranean Diet, discusses heart disease prevention. The Mediterranean diet helps reduce inflammation of blood vessels supplying the heart, greatly lowering the risk of a heart attack. Dr. Ozner also discusses his new book, The Great American Heart Hoax, and the juvenile obesity and diabetes epidemics. He makes recommendations on how to get kids to start eating well and engaging in regular exercise.

Dr. Michael Ozner is the Medical Director for the Center for Prevention and Wellness at Baptist Health South Florida, and Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Prevention Institute of South Florida. He is a recipient of the 2008 American Heart Association Humanitarian Award, and has been recognized by the Consumer Council of America as one of the top physicians in America.

Dr. Ozner’s new book is The Great American Heart Hoax: Lifesaving Advice Your Doctor Should Tell You About Heart Disease Prevention (But Probably Never Will). He is the author of the best-selling The Miami Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease. Both books were published by BenBella Books in 2008.

Technorati Tags: diabetes, heart disease, juvenile diabetes, Mediterranean diet, obesity, stress management

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Dr. David Katz

Dr. Katz has launched Nutrition Detectives, an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is “Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices”. He has also recently launched Nuval, a nutritional scoring system, that helps consumers see – at a glance – the nutritional value of the food they buy.

Dr. Katz is an internationally recognized authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease. He is Associate Professor in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Medicine and Director and founder of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. He is currently the nutrition columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine and a health columnist for the New York Times Syndicate.

Dr. Katz has twice been recognized by the Consumers Research Council of America as one of America’s top physicians in Preventive Medicine and has won numerous awards for his teaching and his contributions to public health.

Technorati Tags: diabetes, Nutrition, nuval, obesity

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Raymond Francis

Raymond Francis is an MIT-trained scientist, internationally recognized leader in optimal health maintenance, and author of the breakthrough books Never Be Sick Again and Never Be Fat Again. Raymond has proposed an entirely new concept of health along with a simple program for achieving it called the Beyond Health Model.

Never Be Sick Again

He is also the founder and president of the nonprofit, Health-e-America Foundation. The foundation’s purpose is to end the epidemic of chronic disease by applying revolutionary technology to the basics of good health. The foundation is the sponsor of The Project to End Disease, a growing international movement to teach people how to end disease in their lives.

In our SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview, Raymond Francis discusses

• Simple methods for restoring good health – addressing both deficiencies and toxicities
• Using advanced scientific methods at both the cellular and molecular levels
• How toxicity causes overweight
• Addressing cancer directly as a systemic disease

Technorati Tags: anti-aging, Cancer Research and Treatment, Nutrition, obesity, omega-3 fatty acids

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Dr. Neal Kaufman is the Founder of DPS Health; Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities; and Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Kaufman founded DPS Health in 2004, after a 26-year career in academic general pediatrics and public health. The weight management division at DPS Health, in association with the University of Pittsburgh, has developed the web-based Virtual Lifestyle Management service. The VLM service draws on cutting-edge technology to enhance efficiency and success of health care provider weight management programs.

In our wide-ranging SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview, Dr. Kaufman discusses

• How the practice of medicine should extend beyond the medical office to help patients adopt and sustain healthy behaviors
• Patient self-management
• Lifestyle coaching for behavior change
• Transforming an “obesogenic environment”
• Future applications to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and beyond . . .

Technorati Tags: diabetes, expert systems, obesity, patient self-management

Dr. Eva Surmacz is an internationally recognized expert in cancer biology. Dr. Surmacz is the Director of the Obesity and Cancer Program at Sbarro Health Research Organization. Her research interests include the link between obesity and cancer, crosstalk between growth factor and steroid receptors in cancer progression, and development of anti-cancer targeted strategies.

Dr. Surmacz’s research has been funded over the past 12 years by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, and several private foundations and organizations.

In our wide-ranging SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interviews, Dr. Surmacz discusses

• The hormonal control of breast cancer growth and progression
• The link between obesity and cancer
• How fatty tissue secretes proteins that are involved in the development of cancer
• How reduction of obesity should be a key part of any cancer prevention program
• How diet might modulate the expression of cancer-related genes
• New treatments for cancer

Technorati Tags: breast cancer, Cancer Research and Treatment, obesity