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Krista Varady

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Krista Varady, PhD

Krista A. Varady is a Canadian-American scientist known for her studies of intermittent fasting on chronic disease risk in human subjects.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Varady was one of the first scientists to study intermittent fasting in humans.[4] As of 2022, she is a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in the department of Kinesiology and Nutrition.[9] She also serves as the director of the Human Nutrition Research Center at UIC.[9] Her work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health.[10] She is also the co-author of two books about intermittent fasting for the general public, titled The Every Other Day Diet and The Fastest Diet.

Education

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Varady completed her Bachelor's degree in dietetics at the University of Guelph.[9] She then attended McGill University, where she completed her PhD in human nutrition. Her PhD dissertation examined the effects of plant sterols combined with exercise on cholesterol metabolism.[11] After her PhD, she joined the laboratory of Marc Hellerstein at the University of California, Berkeley, to study intermittent fasting.[9]

Honors

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In 2023 she received the University of Illinois Chicago, Distinguished Researcher of the Year in the Clinical Sciences Award,[12] and in 2017 she received the Mead Johnson Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Nutrition for her work in intermittent fasting.[13][14]

Works

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  • Varady, Krista; Gottlieb, Bill (2013). The Every Other Day Diet: the diet that lets you eat all you want (half the time) and keep the weight off. New York, NY: Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-316-33058-9. OCLC 865473722.
  • Black, Victoria; Davidson, Gen; Varady, Krista (November 28, 2023). The Fastest Diet. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-76126-332-3. OCLC 1402181219.

References

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  1. ^ Bakalar, Nicholas (July 27, 2020). "Intermittent Fasting May Aid Weight Loss". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  2. ^ O’Connor, Anahad (September 28, 2020). "A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  3. ^ Martin, Crystal (November 23, 2019). "What Is Intermittent Fasting and Does It Really Work?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Hamblin, James (January 23, 2014). "The New Way to Love Food". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  5. ^ Wallis, Claudia (September 1, 2020). "How Good a Diet Is Intermittent Fasting?". Scientific American.
  6. ^ "Intermittent fasting and why when you eat makes a difference". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  7. ^ "In a 24/7 food culture, periodic fasting gains followers". AP NEWS. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  8. ^ Reddy, Sumathi (December 31, 2017). "A Diet Strategy That Counts Time, Not Calories". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  9. ^ a b c d "Krista Varady". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  10. ^ "RePORT ⟩ RePORTER". reporter.nih.gov. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  11. ^ Varady, Krista A; Ebine, Naoyuki; Vanstone, Catherine A; Parsons, William E; Jones, Peter JH (November 1, 2004). "Plant sterols and endurance training combine to favorably alter plasma lipid profiles in previously sedentary hypercholesterolemic adults after 8 wk". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 80 (5): 1159–1166. doi:10.1093/ajcn/80.5.1159. ISSN 0002-9165. PMID 15531661.
  12. ^ "Krista Varady named 2023 UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year in the Clinical Sciences". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  13. ^ "Krista Varady receives 2017 Mead Johnson Award". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  14. ^ American Society for Nutrition (March 28, 2022). "American Society for Nutrition Awards Prior Recipients" (PDF). Retrieved March 28, 2022.
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