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Dietary Fiber, Fat, and Chronic Disease; Cholesterol Lowering; Colon Cancer; Prebiotics
Expert has expertise in many aspects of dietary fiber. This includes the effect of different fiber types on cholesterol reduction, colon cancer, and complications of diabetes. He has also done several types of fiber analysis. Most of his work has…
Registered Dietitian/ Nutritionist, Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics
Expert loves to talk all things nutrition and wellness (Stories on Fad Diets, Diet Trends, What Works, Myth Busting etc. are some of his favorites). He currently runs his Private Practice focusing on nutrition, a group with 13 employees and…
Omega-3 and omega-6 lipids, fish oil, krill oil, GLA, EPA, DHA, structured lipids
Expert is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional lipids. He has published and presented widely. Expert held several positions in pharmacological and clinical research of F. Hoffmann-La Roche (now DSM), including Director of "Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids". As such, he was…
Nutrition, Medicine, Endocrinology, Obesity
Expert is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. She has expertise in the clinical treatment and management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Expert's research concentrates on understanding the genetics of eating behavior;…
Nutrition and Nutrition Education; Metabolism, Diabetes and Obesity; Pediatric and Adult Inpatient Hospital Care
Expert is board certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine as well as the College of Canadian Family Physicians. He received his MD from McGill University in 1989 and completed his resident training in family medicine…
Ophthalmology, Neutraceuticals, Nutrition
Expert is board certified in ophthalmology. He focuses most of his practice on advanced cataract surgery and the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. He completed his medical training in Tulane Medical School in ophthalmology. After his medical training, Expert taught…
Nutrition: Animal & Human; Mineral Bioavailability, Support to Nutritional Claims
His doctoral thesis pertained to the study of fatty acid synthesising enzymes in the different subcellular fractions of rabbit during the development of atherosclerosis and the effect of estrogens on them. The postdoctoral work at Rice University was on the…
Nutraceutical, Functional Food, Development of New Treatments for Obesity and Related Disorders
Prof. Expert has over 38 years of experience in microbiology, biochemistry and genetics. He has conducted research in protein chemistry, endocrinology, appetite regulation, obesity and diabetes. He is responsible for lecturing in Endocrinology, Neurosciences, Nutrition, and Obesity. Also he is…
Mineral Bioavailability, Calcium Metabolism, and Bone Health
Expert’s laboratory studies calcium metabolism during life stages of high demand, i.e., building peak bone mass during adolescence and bone loss in postmenopausal women. Calcium needs in adolescence is investigated with metabolic research camps (Camp Calcium). Dietary alternatives to estrogen…
Fats and Oils: Chemistry, Health, and Nutrition
Since the early 1980s, Expert has been very active in the edible oils area. For eight years, he served as Chairman of the Biological Subcommittee of the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils (ISEO), a trade association of refiners of…