Bernard Kwabi-Addo is a cancer biologist and a Professor of Biochemistry at Howard University in Washington D.C and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore MD. He earned his PhD degree from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, MSc degree from University College London and BSc degree from Dundee University (Scotland).
Dr. Kwabi-Addo trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (TX) in Cancer biology specifically in prostate cancer research. His current laboratory research focuses on identifying aberrant epigenetic changes associated with prostate cancer etiology/progression with the ultimate goal to discover novel biomarkers for the disease detection/progression. He has published scientific articles in journals including Nature Genetics, PNAS, Cancer Research, Prostate and Epigenetics. He is passionate about community outreach work in educating the general public in modifiable lifestyles to avoid and reverse chronic diseases. He lives in Northern Virginia (USA) with his wife, and three sons.
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Check The FATS: Eliminate Chronic Diseases
The world is in a global obesity epidemic and this is associated with thousands of chronic diseases. At the root cause of excess body weight or obesity is diet high in caloric content, ultra-processed foods padded with sugars, salt, and fat as well as sedentary lifestyle. Our goal then is to consume healthy nutritious foods and avoid excess caloric intake in the first place. Yet, many dietary approaches as well as exercise regime only provide short-term solutions and conventional treatment of chronic diseases at best can only manage these conditions. The challenge with modern dietary intervention and physical activity clearly indicates that the current obesity epidemic defies simple solutions.
In Check the Fats: Eliminate Chronic Diseases, Dr. Bernard Kwabi-Addo discusses how the human body has designed complex and integrated metabolic process that involves several factors such as hormones, gut microbiome, circadian rhythm/sleep pattern, genetic traits, and exposures to the current obesogenic environment in regulating energy intake from diet and energy expenditure as well as energy storage in the form of fat. Thus, disruption in any of these processes can and do contribute to obesity and chronic diseases. Check the Fats then discusses lessons from our ancestors who did not have chronic diseases and presents the scientific evidence in support of the role of poor dietary components and sedentary lifestyle and their association with chronic diseases whereas healthy dietary interventions can reverse and even eliminate chronic diseases.
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