With 42 percent of American adults obese and close to 70 percent overweight, the start of the New Year harkens the resounding need to lose weight. Let this be the year you really achieve weight loss focused on health. 

While everyone can’t be skinny, everyone can be healthy.  

Join us on our inaugural True Health Revealed podcast with weight-loss scientist, Dr. John Foreyt, whose research and writing deals with many aspects of obesity-related illness and coping mechanisms for health benefits. He will share his behavioral strategies that can lead to permanent lifestyle changes necessary for healthy body weight. Among those important strategies: 

• weigh yourself regularly
• commit to regular physical activity, even before diet
• prioritize yourself and surround yourself with a village of supporters

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting” says Foreyt.  Start today to achieve a healthier life!

John Foreyt, PhD

John P. Foreyt received his PhD in clinical psychology in 1969 from Florida State University. He served on the faculty there until 1974 when he moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He currently is Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry. He also is the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center’s Behavioral Medicine Research Center.

Dr. Foreyt has served as a member of the National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, National Institutes of Health; The Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; and The Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, National Institutes of Health, NHLBI.

John Foreyt is a Council member of the True Health Initiative. Read Dr. Foreyt’s full bio here.