Weight Loss Diets: A Review of Healthy Diets for Weight Loss and Those to Avoid

John E. Lewis, Ph.D.

Voluntary Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, University of Miami

This lecture will feature some of the latest nutrition science information, related to how to effectively lose weight. While the overweight/obesity epidemic is firmly entrenched in society, methods for losing weight are more pressing than ever. This lecture will highlight how nutrition modification is the obvious primary method to lose weight, while ensuring adequate nutrition and considering other health outcomes, e.g., cardiovascular, cognition, and mental health. Diets that should be avoided or chosen with considerable care will also be discussed. Having a proper understanding of at least some of the evidence base of nutrition and its relationships to weight loss is important for all allied health practitioners and wellness industry professionals, especially considering all of the marketing hype around weight loss methods. Dr. Lewis’s lecture provides attendees an evidence-based review of nutrition science that emphasizes some recent important findings that have an impact on weight, body composition, and overall quality of life.