David Ludwig Biography

Dr Ludwig is founding director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) program at Children's Hospital one of the country’s oldest and largest multidisciplinary clinics for the care of overweight children. OWL serves as a home for research into innovative approaches to treatment childhood obesity.
Dr. Ludwig also directs the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center. His research focuses on the effects of diet on hormones metabolism and body weight. He developed a novel “low glycemic load” diet (i.e. one that decreases the surge in blood sugar after meals) for the treatment of obesity-related diseases. In addition his group has done some of the original studies linking sugar-sweetened beverages and fast food to excessive weight gain heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Ludwig is Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health has published over 150 scientific articles and presently serves as Contributing Writer for JAMA.
David Ludwig received a PhD and an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital.

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