This week on the Gaining Health podcast, we interview the Queen of Obesity Medicine herself, Dr. Donna Ryan! Dr. Ryan and Karli discuss how it was that Dr. Ryan became involved with many of the sentinel nutrition and obesity studies, how obesity management has progressed throughout the years, potential concerns with the newer antiobesity medications, and Dr. Ryan tackles some of the biggest questions about how to prevent the tsunami of obesity and obesity-related complications that will come our way unless we change course.

Dr. Donna Ryan is professor emerita of Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where, until retirement, she directed clinical research for 22 years. Her own research includes participation on the teams that developed and executed studies such as Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies (POUNDS Lost), Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD). Dr. Ryan’s continuing interests focus on the translation of effective weight management into primary care practices. She is the past president of The Obesity Society and has served as panel co-chair to revise the NIH-supported evidence-based Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. Her scholarly activities include authorship of more than 200 original publications and 45 books, chapters and reviews, primarily in the field of obesity.

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