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Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman, May 2011
Born	(1953-12-02) December 2, 1953 (age 71) New York, New York, United States
Nationality	USA
Other names	Joel H. Fuhrman, MD
Education	M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania), 1988
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Occupation(s)	Family physician, author
Known for	Nutritarian diet, ANDI, micronutrient-rich diet
Notable work	Eat to Live; The End of Diabetes; Eat for Health: Lose Weight; Keep it Off and Look Younger; Live Longer.
Spouse	Lisa
Relatives	Gale (sister)
Website	www.drfuhrman.com

Joel Fuhrman, (born December 2, 1953), is an American author, physician, speaker, and media personality who advocates what he calls a micronutrient-rich diet.

A former competitive figure skater, after a serious injury he became a physician specializing in a nutrition-based approach to obesity and chronic disease as well as promoting the dietary regime he followed, which he says helped speed recovery from his injury because of its nutrient-rich nature. He has written several books promoting his dietary approaches and sells a compatible line of nutrition related products. As of April 2013, his book Eat to Live was on the New York Times bestseller paperback Advice & Misc. list for 90 weeks.

Life and career

Joel Fuhrman was born in New York, New York, on December 2, 1953. He was a competitor in the amateur figure skating circuit. He was a member of the US World Figure Skating Team and placed second in the US National Pairs Championship in 1973. He came in 3rd place at the 1976 World Professional Pairs Skating Championship in Jaca, Spain, skating with his sister, Gale Fuhrman. In 1988, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Fuhrman is married and has three daughters and one son.

Fuhrman has advocated eating "at least one pound of raw vegetables and another pound of cooked ones each day, the equivalent of a throw-pillow-size bag of spinach and a very large bowl of steamed broccoli." He popularized the notion of nutrient density in what he calls the Health Equation: Health = Nutrients/Calories (abbreviated as H = N/C). Peter Lipson, a physician and writer on alternative medicine, has been heavily critical of Fuhrman's health equation, writing that since its terms cannot be quanitified, it is "nothing more than a parlor trick". He created what he calls the "Aggregate Nutrient Density Index", a ranking of foods based on micronutrient concentration. Whole Foods began using the scores as a marketing project and reported that the sales of high scoring foods "skyrocketed".

Fuhrman has heavily marketed his products and his infomercials have "become a staple during the self-improvement bloc of PBS pledge drives." In the October 2012 edition of Men's Journal, Mark Adams stated that Fuhrman "preaches something closer to fruitarianism or Christian Science than to conventional medical wisdom". Adams also reported that Fuhrman believes that the flu vaccine "isn't effective at all".

Fuhrman is a board-certified family physician and serves as Director of Research for the Nutritional Research Foundation.

Published Works

Books

• The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life. - ISBN 978-0062249326 (HarperOne; March 25, 2014)
• The Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health. - ISBN 978-0062286703 (HarperOne; October 8, 2013)
• The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes (hardcover) - ISBN 978-0-06-221997-8 (HarperOne; December 26, 2012)
• Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free (hardcover) - ISBN 978-0-06-208063-9 (HarperOne; 1st edition Sep 20, 2011)
• Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (hardcover) - Volume 1 ISBN 0-9799667-2-8, Volume 2 ISBN 0-9799667-3-6, Gift of Health Press; First edition (April 1, 2008)
• Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (paperback) - ISBN 0-316-73550-7, (Little Brown & Company; 1st edition January 15, 2003)
• Disease Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (hardcover) - ISBN 0-312-33805-8, Publisher: St. Martin's Press (August 1, 2005)
• Cholesterol Protection for Life (paperback) - ISBN 0-9744633-1-0, Publisher: Gift of Health Press (September 15, 2004)
• Fasting & Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease (paperback) - ISBN 0-312-18719-X, Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (April 15, 1998)

Scientific Publications

• Dunaief DM, Fuhrman J, Dunaief JL, Ying G. Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in Type 2 Diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2012 Aug;2(3):364-371. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2012.23053
• Fuhrman J, Sarter B, Glaser D, Acocella S. Changing perceptions of hunger on a high nutrient density diet. Nutrition Journal. 2010 Nov 7;9:51. doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-9-51
• Fuhrman J, Ferreri DM. Fueling the vegetarian (vegan) athlete. Current Sports Medicine Reports. 2010 Jul-Aug;9(4):233-41. doi: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181e93a6f
• Sarter BS, Fuhrman J. Effect of a high nutrient density diet on long-term weight loss: a retrospective chart review. Alternative Therapies. 2008;14(3):48-53. PMID: 18517106
• Fuhrman J, Sarter B, Calabro DJ. Brief case reports of medically supervised, water-only fasting associated with remission of autoimmune disease. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. 2002 Jul-Aug;8(4):112, 110-1. PMID: 12126162

DVDs

• 3 Steps To Incredible Health! set (2011)
• Dr. Fuhrman's Immersion Excursion
• Osteoporosis Protection for Life
• Dr. Fuhrman’s Secrets to Healthy Cooking
• Eating Like A Nutritarian (2011)

See also

• Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI)
• Bioavailability
• Michael Klaper
• Nutrient density
• Vegan nutrition

References

1. "Paperback Advice & Misc". New York Times. April 21, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
2. ^ Mark Adams (Oct 2012). "Joel Fuhrman: The Doctor Is Out There". Men's Journal. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
3. "World Professional Figure Skating Championships (Jaca, Spain)". Retrieved 19 Dec 2012.
4. Lipson, Peter (9 September 2010). "Your disease, your fault". Science-Based Medicine. Retrieved August 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
5. ^ "Joel Fuhrman's Micronutrient Diet". Men's Journal. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
6. "Probiotics and the immune system: an interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D." Nutrition Health Review. 108 (Winter): 2. 2011.

External links

• Official website
• Smart People Podcast Interview with Dr. Fuhrman

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