Dr. Neal Barnard is the founder and President of The
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He spoke about the
addictive properties of meat, cheese, sugar, and chocolate and gave tips on how
to break free from these unhealthy habits. He also spoke about the health
benefits of a plant-based diet.
Neal Barnard, M.D., is a clinical researcher, author, and health advocate. He
has been the principal investigator or coinvestigator on several clinical trials
investigating the effects of diet on health. He was a coinvestigator on a study,
conducted in conjunction with Georgetown University, of the effect of dietary
interventions in type 2 diabetes, and is currently the principal investigator of
a study on dietary interventions in diabetes, funded by the National Institutes
of Health and conducted under the auspices of the George Washington University
School of Medicine, in association with the University of Toronto. Dr. Barnard
was also the principal investigator of a study assessing the effects of dietary
interventions on premenstrual and menstrual symptoms and of a study on weight
loss in postmenopausal women.
He is the author of dozens of publications in scientific and medical journals as
well as numerous nutrition books for lay readers and is frequently called on by
news programs to discuss issues related to nutrition, research issues, and other
controversial areas in modern medicine.
He is a frequent lecturer at scientific and lay conferences and has made
presentations for the American Public Health Association, the World Bank, the
National Library of Medicine, the Franklin Institute, the American Medical
Writers Association, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Center for
Science in the Public Interest, and many state dietetic associations.
For more information, please see PCRM's website at following link: www.pcrm.org
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