An acclaimed nutritionist and teacher will offer tips on how to lose weight and be healthy during a 7 p.m. talk Thursday, April 15, in the West Virginia University Mountainlair Ballrooms.
Jeff Novick, director of nutrition at the Pritikin Longevity Center&Spa, will lecture onDiet Fads, Fantasies and Facts: What Really Works and Why.The lecture is free to the public.
Novick has been an author, researcher, nutritionist and teacher for more than 20 years. He provides expert advice on various timely topics, including nutrition wars (good carbohydrates vs. bad carbohydrates), diet wars (high-protein vs. high-carbohydrate), diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
His insightful, humorous workshops on supermarket shopping, cooking, healthy restaurant dining and nutrition have helped thousands worldwide make the transition to healthy eating.
He has also taught nutrition classes at Indiana State University, Indiana University Medical School and the University of Miami Medical School. While in Indiana, he developed and taught theNutrition Education Initiative,a preventive medicine curriculum for medical doctors, residents and medical students.
Novick has been on the faculty at the Pritikin Longevity Center since 1998.
Founded in 1976, the Pritikin Longevity Center&Spa promotes healthy living through a low-fat diet and moderate exercise. More than 90 studies in top medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Circulation have documented the Pritikin program’s success in helping thousands of people overcome heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, cancer, arthritis, stress and other ailments.
The Pritikin program will be featured onFRONTLINE,a public affairs program on PBS , at 9 p.m. Thursday, April 8.
Go tohttp://www.pritikin.com/to learn more about the Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa.
WVU ’s School of Physical Education and School of Medicine are sponsoring Novick’s visit.
For more information about the lecture, contact Lynn Housner, associate dean of the School of Physical Education, at 293-3295 ext. 5287.