Oct
1
4:00pm
'The calculus of calories : food environments & body weight regulation' with Dr Kevin Hall
By Oxford Martin School
Registration on this page is to watch the event online. To attend in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please register at:
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/the-calculus-of-calories
Increased prevalence of obesity isn't due to a lack of willpower because body weight is biologically regulated in ways that make it difficult to lose weight and keep it off.
In this presentation Kevin Hall will describe what we know about the physiology of body weight regulation as well as our emerging understanding of how food environment affects our biology.
Speaker biography:
Kevin Hall, Ph.D. is an internationally recognised expert in human nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and neuroscience. For more than two decades, Dr. Hall was the Integrative Physiology Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health where he made groundbreaking discoveries about how our environment shapes dietary behaviours, and how nutrition and physical activity affect human metabolism and body weight regulation. His transdisciplinary research has combined tightly controlled metabolic ward trials, advanced neuroimaging, and mathematical modelling to generate mechanistic insights into the drivers of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. Dr. Hall has published more than 150 scientific articles and is a sought-after public speaker, having delivered more than 250 presentations around the globe. Dr. Hall has twice received the Director’s Award from the US National Institutes of Health and has also received the E.V. McCullum Award from the American Society for Nutrition, the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, and the Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology from the American Physiological Society. His work is regularly featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, CNN, BBC, and network television. Dr. Hall has also been featured in several podcasts and documentaries about food, nutrition, metabolism, and obesity. neuroimaging, and mathematical modelling to generate mechanistic insights into the drivers of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. Dr. Hall is now an independent consultant and he recently co-authored a book with health journalist Julia Belluz called Food Intelligence: The science of how food both nourishes and harms us.
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