James O. Hill, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Director Center for Human Nutrition, Director of the Colorado Clinical Nutrition Research Unit
Dr. James Hill is Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Denver. He is a key developer of the America on the Move program. Dr. Hill is one of America 's foremost experts in weight management. He has spent over 25 years researching the causes of weight gain, adiposity, and obesity and how to prevent or treat these problems. He has published over 300 scientific articles and lectures widely about weight management. He is well known as a co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry, which follows over 6000 people who have lost weight and kept it off permanently. He is also co-founder of America On the Move, an initiative to make small lifestyle changes to help improve health and manage weight. He was a member of the Expert Panel that developed the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Management of Overweight and Obesity and was chair of the first World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity. He is currently president of the American Society for Nutrition. He has served as president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
As Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado , Dr. Hill has spent the past few years translating the science of weight management into simple programs that work in the community. He developed The Colorado Weigh, formal behavior weight management programs involving weekly group meetings. He also co-developed America on the Move, public health programs that use step counters to increase lifestyle physical activity in order to prevent weight gain. These programs give you, in simple terms, the basics of weight management and show you how you can make simple changes in your lifestyle that dramatically change your body weight.
Selected Publications
• Melanson, E.L., Sharp, T.A., Seagle, H.M., Donahoo, W.T., Grunwald, G.K, Peters, J.C., Hamilton, J.T. and Hill, J.O. Effect of exercise intensity on 24-h energy expenditure and nutrient oxidation. J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;92(3):1045-52. PUBMED
• Hill, J.O., Wyatt, H.R., Reed, G.W. and Peters, J.C. Obesity and the environment: Where do we go from here? Science 299:853-855, 2003. PUBMED
• Foster, G.D., Wyatt, H.R., Hill, J.O., McGuckin, B.G., Brill, C., Mohammed, S., Szapary, P.O., Rader, D.J., Edman, J.S., and Klein, S. A randomized trial of a low-carbohydrate diet for obesity. New England Journal of Medicine 348:282-290, 2003. PUBMED
• Heshka S, Anderson JW, Atkinson RL, Greenway FL, Hill J.O., Phinney SD, Kolotkin RL, Miller-Kovach K, and Pi-Sunyer F. Self Help Weight Loss vs a Structured Commercial Program: A Randomized, Controlled Two-Year Trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 289:1799-1805, 2003. PUBMED
• MacLean, P., Higgins, J., Jackman, M., Johnson, G., Fleming-Elder, B., Wyatt, H., Melanson, E.L., and Hill, J.O. Peripheral metabolic responses to prolonged weight reduction that promote rapid, efficient regain in obesity-prone rats. American Journal of Physiology 290:R1577-R1588, 2006. PUBMED
• Catenacci V.A., Ogden L.G., Stuht J, Phelan S, Wing R.R., Hill J.O., Wyatt H.R. Physical activity patterns in the national weight control registry. Obesity 1 6 , 153 - 161 2007. PUBMED
• Rodearmel SJ, Wyatt, HR, Stroebele, N, Smith SM, Ogden LG, and Hill J.O. Small Changes in Dietary Sugar and Physical Activity as an Approach to Preventing Excessive Weight Gain: the America On the Move Family Study. Pediatrics 120:e867-e879, 2007 . PUBMED
• Donahoo W, Wyatt HR, Kriehn J, Stuht J, Dong F, Hosokawa P, Grunwald GK, Johnson SL, Peters JC, Hill J.O. Dietary fat increases energy intake across the range of typical consumption in the U.S. Obesity 16: 64-69, 2007. PUBMED