Few topics are more controversial than nutrition. With new scientific findings published daily and discussed widely in the media, with vast amounts of media advertising about what food to eat and what supplements to take, with enticing food wherever we turn, and with a biologic environment that makes us hungry three times a day, how do we know how to eat to stay healthy? This course, presented by an interdisciplinary team of UCSF clinicians and scientists, will explore the concept of healthy eating and explain the molecular and hormonal basis of energy balance and appetite control. You will learn why it is so hard to keep pounds off, what supplements and vitamins to take and which ones to avoid, and why certain diets work and others don’t.
COURSE CO-CHAIRS:
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, Director, Mini Medical School for the Public; Professor of Medicine; Associate
Dean, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
Marieke Kruidering-Hall, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology;
Co-director, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program
May 5
Obesity 2009: Ten Things You Thought You Knew
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, Director, Mini Medical
School for the Public; Professor of Medicine;
Associate Dean, Graduate and Continuing Medical
Education
May 12
Fad Diets: Do They Really Work?
Andrea Garber, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Division
of Adolescent Medicine
May 19
Cholesterol and Fats in Your Blood: Chemistry, Control, and Chaos
Tracy Fulton, PhD, Professor, Department of
Biochemistry and Biophysics
May 26
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Robert H. Lustig, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Division
of Endocrinology
June 2
Regulation of Appetite: Is it Genetic?
Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, UCSF
Diabetes Center
June 9
Nutrition in a Bottle: A Scientific c Review of Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements
Ellen Hughes MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of
Medicine; Former Director of Education, Osher
Center for Integrative Medicine
