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
editVarady 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
editIn 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Bakalar, Nicholas (July 27, 2020). "Intermittent Fasting May Aid Weight Loss". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ O’Connor, Anahad (September 28, 2020). "A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Hamblin, James (January 23, 2014). "The New Way to Love Food". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ Wallis, Claudia (September 1, 2020). "How Good a Diet Is Intermittent Fasting?". Scientific American.
- ^ "Intermittent fasting and why when you eat makes a difference". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ "In a 24/7 food culture, periodic fasting gains followers". AP NEWS. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ Reddy, Sumathi (December 31, 2017). "A Diet Strategy That Counts Time, Not Calories". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Krista Varady". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ "RePORT ⟩ RePORTER". reporter.nih.gov. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Krista Varady named 2023 UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year in the Clinical Sciences". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
- ^ "Krista Varady receives 2017 Mead Johnson Award". ahs.uic.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
- ^ American Society for Nutrition (March 28, 2022). "American Society for Nutrition Awards Prior Recipients" (PDF). Retrieved March 28, 2022.
