John Foreyt, PhD

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John Foreyt, PhD, is the director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He is co-author of the best-selling book "The Living Heart Diet" and the author of 13 other books. Foreyt has also written more than 200 scientific articles that have been published in such journals as the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Foreyt has served as a member of the National Institutes of Health's National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and the American Obesity Association's advisory council.

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