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Specialty:
Internal Medicine
Medicine, Endocrinology - Diabetes and Metabolism
Medicine, Pulmonary Disease
Department Affiliation:
Medicine
Hospital Affiliation:
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
State License:
G28371
Phone:
310-825-8173
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About Me

Founding Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
Founding Director, Risk Factor Obesity Program (RFO)
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. David Heber is internationally prominent in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, obesity and its associated complications. He has published seminal research articles on the causes of obesity, weight loss strategies, and the relationship of obesity to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

David Heber is the Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, the founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine.

He directs the NCI-funded Clinical Nutrition Research Unit and the NIH Nutrition and Obesity Training Grants at UCLA.

Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition by the American Board of Nutrition. He earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Heber served as a Director of the American Board of Nutrition and past chair of the Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition. He is included in the 2000 listing of The Best Doctors in America, based on a survey of over 35,000 doctors throughout the nation, and is listed in Who's Who in America for 2001.

Dr. Heber's primary areas of research are obesity treatment and prevention, the role of nutrition, phytochemicals,and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 25 book chapters, and two professional texts:

Dietary Fat, Lipids, Hormones and Tumorigenesis and Nutritional Oncology (Academic Press, 1999, 2nd edition in preparation for 2005)

Dr. Heber has also written four books for the public:

Natural Remedies for a Healthy Heart (Avery Publishing Group 1998)
The Resolution Diet (Avery Publishing Group 1999)
What Color is Your Diet? (Harper Collins/Regan Books 2001)
The L.A. Shape Diet (Harper Collins/Regan Books March 2004)

Links
clinicalnutrition.ucla.edu/rfo
clinicalnutrition.ucla.edu
uclahealth.org/weight-management
Primary Office
RFO Weight Management Program
Primary Address
900 Weyburn Place, Suite 14-171
Warren Hall
Los Angeles, California 90095
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Medical Board Certifications
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1976
Certification 2
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1977
Residency
Medicine/Endocrinology, Harbor - UCLA Medical Center, 1977-1979
Residency 2
Internal Medicine, Harbor - UCLA Medical Center, 1974-1977
Internship
Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr-East Campus, 1973-1974
Degree
Harvard Medical School, MD, 1973
Interests
  • Binge Eating

    Binge Eating Disorder

    Binge eating disorder is an illness that involves eating a lot of food in a short amount of time. The person with binge eating disorder feels out of control about how much he or she eats.  More food is eaten than others eat in the same amount of time, under the same circumstances.
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  • Cholesterol

    Cholesterol in the Blood

    The cholesterol in your blood comes from the foods you eat and your liver. Your liver makes all of the cholesterol your body needs. It helps your body make cell membranes, many hormones, and vitamin D. 
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  • Diabetes

    Diagnosing Diabetes

    According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: People over age 45 should be tested for prediabetes or diabetes. If the first blood glucose test is normal, they should be retested every 3 years. If you are younger, you should be tested if you are at high risk.
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  • Food Intolerance

    Food Allergies

    A food allergy is an abnormal response of the body's immune system to certain foods. This is not the same as food intolerance, although some of the symptoms may be very similar. 
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  • Hypertension

    High Blood Pressure/Hypertension

    Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is created with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. Blood pressure is also affected by the size of the artery walls and how elastic they are. Each time the heart beats (contracts and relaxes), pressure is created inside the arteries. High blood pressure, or hypertension, increases the risk for coronary heart disease (heart attack) and stroke (brain attack).
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  • Hypoglycemia

    Hypoglycemia

    Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by low blood sugar (glucose). Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body. Hypoglycemia may be a condition by itself, or may be a complication of diabetes or another disorder.
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  • Malnutrition
  • Obesity

    Obesity

    Detailed information on obesity, including obesity causes, obesity health effects, obesity medical treatment, obesity surgical treatment, maintaining weight loss, and obesity prevention
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  • Weight Management

    Weight Management and Adolescents

    For overweight children 7 and older, the initial goal is to keep them from gaining more weight. Changes in eating habits and exercise are gradually introduced to trim pounds.
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