Foods that energize: Eating your way to a healthy weight and balanced blood sugar levels
Thursday, Nov. 6
noon-1 p.m.
304ABC Schine Student Center
At this lunch and learn, Dr. Campbell will discuss his research showing how to achieve rapid and powerful health improvements with a plant-based approach.
Attendees will hear about research results showing that by choosing different foods, people can achieve rapid and large improvements in blood sugar control, move towards a healthier weight and significantly reduce blood cholesterol levels, protecting health and wellbeing for years to come.
Register Foods that Energize by Oct. 29!
About Thomas Campbell II, MD
Thomas M. Campbell II, MD is a board-certified family medicine physician and is certified in obesity medicine. He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Rochester, where he is founder and co-director of the UR Medicine Nutrition in Medicine Research Center.
His clinical experience includes creating and running several nutrition and lifestyle-focused programs in primary care and hospital settings at the University of Rochester and working with many hundreds of patients over time to prevent and treat illness using optimal diet and lifestyle. He is co-author of international bestseller The China Study, and author of The China Study Solution, and course co-author of the popular Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate offered by the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, previously a top course at eCornell, Cornell University’s online education arm.
He is currently an investigator for clinical trials testing the effect of nutrition on chronic disease, including cardiovascular health, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer. He has published findings showing that dietary intervention programs can lead to major, rapid improvements in blood sugar control and insulin requirements among adults with advanced type 2 diabetes and that a whole food, plant-based intervention is feasible and leads to significant improvements in quality of life and cancer-related biomarkers among women with metastatic breast cancer. He has published multiple papers in the scientific literature and has presented widely on the topic of plant-based nutrition.
Dr. Campbell is a graduate of Cornell University and got his medical degree from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. He has run multiple marathons.