24 Facts About Louis Aronne

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Louis J Aronne is an American physician and author who is an obesity medicine specialist.

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Louis Aronne is quoted in the news media as an expert in the field of weight research.

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Louis Aronne is perhaps best known for diagnosing David Letterman's heart condition in 2000.

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Louis Aronne's book, released in 2009, The Skinny on Losing Weight Without Being Hungry is a NY Times best-seller.

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Louis Aronne graduated from Poly Prep Country Day School in 1973 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry.

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Louis Aronne is board certified in Internal Medicine and founding board member and diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

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Louis Aronne is Medical Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, which he founded in 1986 as a multidisciplinary obesity research and treatment program.

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Louis Aronne is a past president of The Obesity Society, then known as the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.

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Louis Aronne is a fellow of the: American College of Physicians, The Obesity Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

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Louis Aronne edited and was chairman of the National Institutes of Health's Practical Guide to the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults.

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Louis Aronne was a reviewing member of the Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration's publication, Guidance for the Clinical Evaluation of Weight-Control Drugs.

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Louis Aronne is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Obesity.

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Louis Aronne has been a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Louis Aronne has authored over 100 scientific publications, book chapters, abstracts, and books on obesity.

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In 2008, Louis Aronne founded BMIQ, which is Intellihealth Evolve, a SaaS platform designed to treat obesity within a medically supervised setting.

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Louis Aronne's core belief is that obesity is a progressive metabolic disease of weight-regulating mechanisms, which leads to a deterioration in fullness and satiety.

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The final stage of the fullness mechanism breakdown, which Louis Aronne has termed "fullness resistance", is the delayed or nonexistent sensation of fullness.

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Louis Aronne has found that many patients take common medications that neither they, nor their doctor realize cause weight gain.

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Louis Aronne's recommendation, supported by his food order research at Weill Cornell Medicine, is to consume protein and vegetables first followed later by consuming whole grain carbohydrates.

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20.

In 2001 and 2002, Louis Aronne appeared on and developed the CBS Early Show's "Weight Off" series.

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21.

Louis Aronne's second book, The Skinny on Losing Weight Without Being Hungry, from Broadway-Random House, published in March 2009 is a NY Times best-seller.

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Louis Aronne was awarded the 2015 Atkinson-Stern Award for Distinguished Public Service by The Obesity Society and the 2013 Distinguished Achievement Award by Poly Prep Country Day School.

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Louis Aronne has been a faculty member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society since 1990.

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Louis Aronne has been regularly ranked in Castle Connolly's and New York Magazine's Best Doctors in New York as a specialist in obesity and internal medicine.

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