The Department of Nutritional Sciences presents: The Jean Andrews Centennial Visiting Professor Lecture:

"Obesity: More than Just Being Overweight"

Dr. David Heber, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Public Health,
Founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition
Department of Medicine; University of California, Los Angeles

This free event is open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

Dr. Heber has published seminal research articles on the causes of obesity, weight loss strategies, and the relationship of obesity to cancer and cardiovascular disease.  His primary areas of research are obesity treatment and prevention, the role of nutrition, phytochemicals, and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease.  He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 50 book chapters, and six books: Dietary Fat, Lipids, Hormones and Tumorigenesis, Nutritional Oncology, Natural Remedies for a Healthy Heart, The Resolution Diet, What Color is Your Diet?, and The L.A. Shape Diet.

The Jean Andrews Centennial Visiting Professorship in Human Nutrition was established in 1983 by an endowment from Dr. Jean Andrews and matched by The University of Texas at Austin during its Centennial Year. Dr. Andrews, an alumna of Human Ecology, was a unique scholar who exemplifies the multiple disciplines that reflect the human experience. She was a scientist whose focus was on nutritional sciences, botany, marine biology and anthropology as well as a recognized author, painter and an inveterate world traveler.