When:	January 18, 2007 - 6:30pm
Where:	Fairchild Auditorium Stanford University Medical Center Palo Alto, CA
To Register:	(650) 498-7826
Email:	healthlibrary@stanfordmed.org
Fee:	None
Credits:

"The Myth of Diet: Calories Don't Count, So Don't Count Calories"

We all know that we get fat when we eat more calories than our bodies use. We know that we fall down when we step off a high building. We know that our car will be crunched when we run into a wall at 60 miles per hour. These are the laws of physics, but they don't tell us much about how to avoid the consequences of these laws. The energy balance law doesn't tell us where fat is stored; it doesn't tell us why women need fewer calories than men; it doesn't tell us how genes work to make us fat
or prevent us from becoming fat; it doesn't tell us why we plateau when we try to lose weight. Although the energy balance is "true," it's what it doesn't tell us that is important in battling the bulge and it is this set of concepts that will be developed in this talk.

Speaker: George A. Bray, MD

Boyd Professor

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University