Why we get fat: Diet Trends & Food Policy

A conversation with

Gary Taubes Science Journalist, Author of Why We Get Fat and

What to Do About It (Knopf 2010) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (Knopf 2007)

and Co-Founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative

Dr. Christopher Gardner

Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Nutrition Studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center,

Stanford University

Moderated by Paul Costello

Chief Communications Officer, Stanford School of Medicine

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Speakers

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Paul Costello is the Chief Communications Officer for the Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously, he was vice president of external affairs for the University of Hawaii System. In Hawaii, he hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS Hawaii. He has served as a press spokesman to First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste, D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly and Kitty Dukakis. In the private sector, he has been a senior leader at HBO, Marshall Field’s and Weber Shandwick. At Stanford, he leads the medical school’s communication and public relations efforts, overseeing media relations, publications and digital media.

Gary Taubes Science journalist, author and co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative Gary Taubes is the author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (Knopf 2010) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (Knopf 2007). He’s a contributing correspondent for Science and the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Independent Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. Taubes has won numerous awards for his journalism including the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award three times, the only print journalist to do so. He is also co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative. Christopher Gardner Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Nutrition Studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center Over the last 15 years Christopher Gardner has enrolled over 1,200 adults in studies examining the potential health benefits of garlic, soy, antioxidants, fish oil, vegetarian diets, popular weight loss diets, and more, mostly funded by the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association, and the Education Committee of the Obesity Society. He is the proud father of four boys and the devoted husband of his rock-climbing, marathon-running, wife who is a political scientist. Gardner holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences.