Krista Varady
Canadian-American scientist
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Krista A. Varady is a Canadian-American scientist known for her studies of intermittent fasting on chronic disease risk in human subjects.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Varady was one of the first scientists to study intermittent fasting in humans.[4] As of 2022, she is a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in the department of Kinesiology and Nutrition.[9] She also serves as the director of the Human Nutrition Research Center at UIC.[9] Her work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health.[10] She is also the co-author of two books about intermittent fasting for the general public, titled The Every Other Day Diet and The Fastest Diet.[11]
Education
Varady completed her Bachelor's degree in dietetics at the University of Guelph.[9] She then attended McGill University, where she completed her PhD in human nutrition. Her PhD dissertation examined the effects of plant sterols combined with exercise on cholesterol metabolism.[12] After her PhD, she joined the laboratory of Marc Hellerstein at the University of California, Berkeley, to study intermittent fasting.[9]
Honors
In 2023 she received the University of Illinois Chicago, Distinguished Researcher of the Year in the Clinical Sciences Award,[13] and in 2017 she received the Mead Johnson Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Nutrition for her work in intermittent fasting.[14][15]
Works
- Varady, Krista; Gottlieb, Bill (2013). The Every Other Day Diet: the diet that lets you eat all you want (half the time) and keep the weight off. New York, NY: Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-316-33058-9. OCLC 865473722.
- Black, Victoria; Davidson, Gen; Varady, Krista (November 28, 2023). The Fastest Diet. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-76126-332-3. OCLC 1402181219.
