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Beverage
Panel
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Barry
Popkin, Ph.D.,
Director, Interdisciplinary Obesity Center and Division of Nutrition
Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dr. Popkin is a leading scholar on dietary patterns and trends, diet and body composition and obesity
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| Ben
Caballero, Ph.D, M.D.,
Director of Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Caballero Member of Institute of Medicine Dietary Guidelines Committee, eminent obesity and nutrition scholar . His research focuses on the investigation of dietary factors, using epidemiologic approaches, in the cause and prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other important conditions. |
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| Balz
Frei, Ph.D., Director and Endowed Chair, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University
Leading scholar of oxidative stress and antioxidants, role of micronutrients and phytochemicals on health.
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| Walter
Willett, M.D., Endowed Chair and
Chair of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Dr. Willett is a leading epidemiology scholar on the way dietary factors, including all categories of beverages, act in the cause and prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other important conditions.
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| George
Bray, M.D., Professor at Louisiana State
University Medical Center, and director emeritus, Pennington Biomedical
Research Center, Baton Rouge
Dr. Bray is the preeminent nutrition researcher whose major research interests have been in obesity and diabetes.
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| Lawrence
Armstrong, Ph.D., Human Performance Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Leading scholar on dietary intervention (i.e., sport drinks, low salt diets, glucose-electrolyte solutions) that affect human performance.
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