Weight, eating, books, information. Recognized scientific experts. In what appears to be the first program anywhere to combine these disciplines, the George Washington University Medical Center in ashington, DC, is now offering a master's program that focuses on exercise, nutrition, and eating behavior and integrates all types of eating and weight-related issues, including eating disorders and obesity. The program is innovative in its multidisciplinary approach. Emphasis is on providing an in-depth understanding of exercise physiology and utrition and applying it in a way that will help people make permanent behavior changes.
Training is provided in assessment, counseling, and communication techniques.
Graduate assistantships and internships are offered, both on and off campus, in active research programs, management of healthy weight, and the treatment of obesity and eating disorders. The program coordinator is Wayne C. Miller, PhD, who specializes in exercise physiology, nutrition, obesity, and eating behavior. Miller has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Healthy Weight Journal since 1987. A J-shaped relative risk curve emerged, with a poorer survival rate for those who were thin, overweight, and obese. Diabetic men and women in the average weight category had the lowest mortality rate.