Kevin Hall
@KevinH_PhD
Nutrition & metabolism scientist. Brady & Cameron’s dad. Tweets are my personal views. http://KevinHallPhD.com
I’m excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliaoftoronto! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes and harms us. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334/f……
It's super heartening to see stuff like this and at the same time, reminds me that the entirety of the academic nutrition community is still largely sitting quiet. It is wild to watch societies and tenured folks sit on the sidelines hoping for benefits from the performative…
Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts. scim.ag/3FN7HHK
ICYMI...New book with the great @KevinH_PhD coming soon! And a bit here about the book's backstory here: juliabelluz.substack.com/p/announcing-f…
“It’s frustrating to see the enormous political capital of the MAHA movement expended on actions like the proposed product formulation changes that have little chance of reducing prominent diet-related chronic diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes,” Hall said in an email.…
Getting Coca-Cola to use cane sugar rather and ice cream manufacturers to stop their use of synthetic dyes are the latest achievements trumpeted by the Make America Healthy Again movement. trib.al/lks1Z4x
Happy to have contributed to the recent episode of @BBCMoreOrLess to help clarify the relationship between interventions targeting reduced calorie intake for obesity and the (often much less than) expected weight losses that occur because appetite increases over time.…
Many moons ago, @KevinH_PhD and I talked about a book we both wished existed. No fads, no weight loss hacks—just the nutrition and metabolism science. I’m thrilled to announce that we wrote it! Out September 23 @Avery_Books & available now for pre-order. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334/f…
🎙️ Episode 1 is LIVE! Why is eating well so hard – even when we want to? Neuroscientist @sguyenet breaks down: 🏪 Why our food environment outpaced our biology 🧠 How certain foods hijack our brains 💊 What the data shows about Ozempic & GLP-1 drugs Apple:…
Starbucks - a purveyor of largely sugar-sweetened and creamy coffee beverages, baked goods, and sodium/refined grain-loaded sandwiches - has 'very clean foods' per the HHS secretary and he's asking him to get rid of canola oil.. History will look back on the misspent MAHA…
We’re working with America’s biggest food brands to Make America Healthy Again.
Had a productive meeting with @hugomharper from @nesta_uk on modeling weight loss dynamics. I strongly believe that policy interventions targeting the food environment are exactly the right approach. But when the promised effects of such policies are overstated and fail to…
Insightful commentary by @KCKlatt: “it’s time for food and nutrition advocates, scientists and professionals to call out the MAHA agenda for what it is - it’s a movement with the right vibes, the wrong priorities and solutions, headed up by someone with dangerous thoughts on…
6 Months of MAHA - A Reflection and Call to...Non-Silence (?) open.substack.com/pub/kcklatt/p/…
Hard to fathom how anyone can continue to justify the disruption of NIH research by haphazard cuts and destruction when they become aware of stories like this one related to cancer research and clinical trials. cbsnews.com/news/when-is-c…
I miss working with my colleagues at NIH. Here’s a nice description of research led by my long time collaborator Stephanie Chung.
NIH researcher Dr. Stephanie Chung seeks to improve techniques for identifying individuals at high risk for youth-onset type 2 diabetes. Her section, which works from the @NIHClinicalCntr, conducts two groups of studies to further this goal. Read more: go.nih.gov/sGKhtRW
Were you at the ADA meeting? someone at the meeting found my credit card(s) outside the hilton hotel. They took them in but didnt leave them there as I was not a guest at that hotel. If you are that person please get in touch... asap. I'm leaving at 1030am tmr.
Lots of MAHA talk at #WSJFood this week. Here's a quote from me in @WSJ “My concern is that they’re not interested in the science,” Hall said. “They’re interested in a preconceived narrative, and any science that complicates that narrative is viewed as problematic.”…
Looking forward to discussing ultra-processed food with @JesseGabrielCA and @jessenewman13 at #wsjfood
@dan_soffer master class in alternate diagnosis of hypercholesterolemia. He shows the clinical keys to address a diagnostic approach of dyslipidemias in an orderly fashion. Here's a snippet of this amazing presentation #NLASessions @nationallipid
Really enjoyed Max Petersen’s talk at #NLASessions on the topic of hypothetical mechanisms of increased LDL cholesterol and ApoB with ketogenic diets. Looking forward to his forthcoming data measuring metabolic fluxes! clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06894…
