Dr. David Katz is a medical doctor and specialist in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition. He is a voice of reason in an incredibly confusing space. His eloquent and articulate speaking style has brought him recognition by peers as the “poet laureate of health promotion.”
Dr. Katz is the founder and former director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (1998-2019); Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; President and Founder of the non-profit True Health Initiative; and Founder and CEO of Diet ID, Inc.
The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, he was a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in health journalism.
Katz has an extensive media portfolio, including serving as a nutrition columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine; an on-air contributor for ABC News/Good Morning America, and OpEds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He is one of the original 150 “Influencers” selected by LinkedIn and has a social media following of nearly one million.
He holds multiple US patents; has over 200 peer-reviewed publications; has published many hundreds of on-line and newspaper columns; and has authored/co-authored 19 books to date including multiple editions of leading textbooks in nutrition, preventive medicine, and epidemiology.
His career-long focus has been the translation of science into action for the addition of years to life, and life to years, and on the confluence of human and planetary health.
In this episode, we discuss:
Reference links to topics in this episode:
How To Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered
Actual causes of death in the United States, JAMA 1993
Healthy Eating Index (HEI) - Diet Quality measure
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health
Cuisinicity - Food Blog by Catherine Katz
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