List of works - David S. Ludwig

A low-glycemic index diet in the treatment of pediatric obesity

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

A low-glycemic-load versus low-fat diet in the treatment of fatty liver in obese children.

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

A physiological basis for disparities in diabetes and heart disease risk among racial and ethnic groups

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st century

scientific article

A randomized pilot study of dietary treatments for polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents

scientific article

A randomized study of dietary composition during weight-loss maintenance: Rationale, study design, intervention, and assessment

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

A randomized trial of sugar-sweetened beverages and adolescent body weight

scientific article

A reduced-glycemic load diet in the treatment of adolescent obesity.

scientific article published in August 2003

A telephone intervention to achieve differentiation in dietary intake: a randomized trial in paediatric primary care

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Accuracy of administrative coding for type 2 diabetes in children, adolescents, and young adults

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Acute effects of dietary glycemic index on antioxidant capacity in a nutrient-controlled feeding study.

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Adolescent obesity, a need for greater awareness and improved treatment.

scientific article

Altering portion sizes and eating rate to attenuate gorging during a fast food meal: effects on energy intake

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Antegrade intravenous catheterization for metabolic studies in man.

scientific article

Anti-receptor antibodies designed to elicit "internal image"-bearing anti-idiotypes: a possible AIDS vaccine.

scientific article published on July 1987

Antigenic determinants of the cholera/coli family of enterotoxins.

scientific article published on September 1987

Are methods of estimating fat-free mass loss with energy-restricted diets accurate?

scientific article published in 2022

Artificially sweetened beverages: cause for concern.

scientific article published in December 2009

Ask the doctor. More and more nutrition advice seems to be anti-sugar these days. So are artificial sweetners a good alternative?

article by David S Ludwig published 1 December 2011 in Harvard health letter

Association of Consumption of Fried Food Away From Home With Body Mass Index and Diet Quality in Older Children and Adolescents

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”

scientific article published in 2021

Best practice guidelines in pediatric/adolescent weight loss surgery.

scientific article published in February 2005

Blood glucose and hormonal responses to small and large meals in healthy young and older women.

scientific article published in July 1998

Bring back home economics education

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Calorically restricted diets decrease PCSK9 in overweight adolescents

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Carbohydrate-last meal pattern lowers postprandial glucose and insulin excursions in type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Carbohydrates and the postprandial state: have our cake and eat it too?

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Caution needed on causal inferences in obesity

scientific article published in 2024

Childhood obesity--the shape of things to come

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure

scientific article (publication date: 10 August 2002)

Compensation for energy intake from fast food among overweight and lean adolescents

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Continuous glucose monitoring to assess the ecologic validity of dietary glycemic index and glycemic load ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

Conversation with a Harvard expert. Dr. David S. Ludwig is a nutrition and obesity researcher at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston. His research has focused on the harmful health effects of high-glycemic load foods. He is author of "Endi

scientific article published in August 2011

Creating an integrated care model for childhood obesity: a randomized pilot study utilizing telehealth in a community primary care setting.

scientific article

Dietary Cholesterol and Blood Cholesterol Concentrations-Reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2015

Dietary fat: From foe to friend?

scientific article published in Science

Dietary fiber, weight gain, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adults.

scientific article published in October 1999

Dietary glycemic index and the regulation of body weight.

scientific article

Dietary guidelines in the 21st century--a time for food

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Does the concept of “ultra-processed foods” help inform dietary guidelines, beyond conventional classification systems? NO

Effect of low-dose insulin treatment on body weight and physical development in children and adolescents at risk for type 1 diabetes.

scientific article published in August 2005

Effects of Advice to Drink 8 Cups of Water per Day in Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

scientific article published on 06 March 2017

Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Content on Circulating Metabolic Fuel Availability in the Postprandial State

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Effects of a low glycemic load or a low-fat dietary intervention on body weight in obese Hispanic American children and adolescents: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

Effects of a low-glycemic load diet in overweight and obese pregnant women: a pilot randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Effects of a low-glycemic load diet on resting energy expenditure and heart disease risk factors during weight loss

scientific article published in November 2004

Effects of a low-glycemic load vs low-fat diet in obese young adults: a randomized trial

scientific article

Effects of an ad libitum low-glycemic load diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors in obese young adults

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Effects of decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on body weight in adolescents: a randomized, controlled pilot study

scientific article

Effects of diet composition on postprandial energy availability during weight loss maintenance

scientific article

Effects of dietary composition on energy expenditure during weight-loss maintenance

scientific article

Effects of dietary glycaemic index on adiposity, glucose homoeostasis, and plasma lipids in animals.

scientific article published in August 2004

Effects of dietary glycemic index on brain regions related to reward and craving in men

scientific article

Effects of fast-food consumption on energy intake and diet quality among children in a national household survey

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Effects of high and low glycemic load meals on energy intake, satiety and hunger in obese Hispanic-American youth

scientific article

Effects of replacing the habitual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages with milk in Chilean children

scientific article published on September 2008

Effects of sodium benzoate, a widely used food preservative, on glucose homeostasis and metabolic profiles in humans

scientific article

Elevated LDL Cholesterol with a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet: Evidence for a "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" Phenotype

scientific article published on 30 November 2021

Epidemic Childhood Obesity: Not Yet the End of the Beginning

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Epitopes of the cholera family of enterotoxins.

scientific article published on May 1987

Estimated morbidity and mortality in adolescents and young adults diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Examination of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene promoter in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Examining the Health Effects of Fructose ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Extra calories cause weight gain--but how much?

scientific article published in January 2010

Fast-food habits, weight gain, and insulin resistance (the CARDIA study): 15-year prospective analysis.

scientific article published in January 2005

Front-of-package food labels: public health or propaganda?

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Functional interactions between melanin-concentrating hormone, neuropeptide Y, and anorectic neuropeptides in the rat hypothalamus ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1998

Genetic Evidence That Carbohydrate-Stimulated Insulin Secretion Leads to Obesity.

scientific article published in January 2018

Glycemic index is as reliable as macronutrients on food labels

scientific article published in March 2017

Glycemic load comes of age.

scientific article

Hard facts about soft drinks.

scientific article published in March 2004

Health-related quality of life in adolescents with or at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 3 January 2012

Hepatic steatosis and increased adiposity in mice consuming rapidly vs. slowly absorbed carbohydrate

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Hepatic, adipocyte, enteric and pancreatic hormones: response to dietary macronutrient composition and relationship with metabolism

scientific article

High glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity.

scientific article published in March 1999

How early should obesity prevention start?

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Identifying whole grain foods: a comparison of different approaches for selecting more healthful whole grain products ⬇️

scientific article published on January 4, 2013

Impact of change in sweetened caloric beverage consumption on energy intake among children and adolescents

scientific article published in April 2009

Incorrect analyses were used in "Different enteral nutrition formulas have no effect on glucose homeostasis but on diet-induced thermogenesis in critically ill medical patients: a randomized controlled trial" and corrected analyses are requested

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet in adults with normal but not high body weight: A meta-analysis

scientific article published in January 2024

Increasing adiposity: consequence or cause of overeating?

scientific article

Inhibition of alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes by peptides from the α2 domain of HLA–A2

scientific article published in Nature

Lifespan Weighed Down by Diet

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Lowering the Bar on the Low-Fat Diet.

scientific article

Management of Type 1 Diabetes With a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Melanin-concentrating hormone overexpression in transgenic mice leads to obesity and insulin resistance

scientific article

Melanin-concentrating hormone: a functional melanocortin antagonist in the hypothalamus.

scientific article published in April 1998

Metabolomic profiles as reliable biomarkers of dietary composition

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Mindfulness in Medicine

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Multi-component molecular-level body composition reference methods: evolving concepts and future directions.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Nutrition attitudes and knowledge in medical students after completion of an integrated nutrition curriculum compared to a dedicated nutrition curriculum: a quasi-experimental study ⬇️

scientific article published on August 12, 2011

Nutritively sweetened beverages and obesity

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Obesity: Guiding the management of pediatric obesity

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Outcomes from an orientation model to reduce attrition in paediatric weight management

scientific article published on 4 August 2016

Overweight children and adolescents

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Pediatric obesity management: variation by specialty and awareness of guidelines

scientific article published in July 2007

Pediatric obesity prevention initiatives: more questions than answers

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Personal responsibility and obesity: a constructive approach to a controversial issue.

scientific article

Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among 5- to 12-year-old children: a randomized pilot study

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

Physiologic Adaptation to Macronutrient Change Distorts Findings from Short Dietary Trials: Reanalysis of a Metabolic Ward Study

scientific article published in December 2023

Preferences for type 2 diabetes health states among adolescents with or at risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Pregnancy weight gain and childhood body weight: a within-family comparison

scientific article

Programming obesity in childhood

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Providing food to treat adolescents at risk for cardiovascular disease

scientific article

Public health action amid scientific uncertainty: the case of restaurant calorie labeling regulations

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Putting your genes on a diet: the molecular effects of carbohydrate

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Raising the bar on the low-carbohydrate diet.

scientific article published on November 2016

Relation between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and childhood obesity: a prospective, observational analysis.

scientific article

Relationship between funding source and conclusion among nutrition-related scientific articles

scientific article published in January 2007

Relationship of insulin dynamics to body composition and resting energy expenditure following weight loss.

scientific article

Science souring on sugar

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Scientific discourse in the era of open science: a response to Hall et al. regarding the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Should obese patients be counselled to follow a low-glycaemic index diet? Yes

scientific article (publication date: November 2002)

Source of bias in sugar-sweetened beverage research: a systematic review

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Spirited critique of glycaemic index (GI) and its role in the treatment of obesity

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

State intervention in life-threatening childhood obesity

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Storm over statins--the controversy surrounding pharmacologic treatment of children

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Structure-function analysis of protein active sites with anti-idiotypic antibody

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Sugar-sweetened beverages, genetic risk, and obesity

scientific article

Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women

scientific article

Surgical vs lifestyle treatment for type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Surveillance of insulin resistance in children.

scientific article published in April 2003

Targeting dietary fat or glycemic load in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial

scientific article (publication date: April 2011)

Taxes and subsidies to improve diet--reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Technology, Diet, and the Burden of Chronic Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Testing the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity in a 5-month feeding study: the perils of post-hoc participant exclusions

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

The 2010 Dietary Guidelines--the best recipe for health?

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity: Beyond "Calories In, Calories Out"

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

The Ketogenic Diet: Evidence for Optimism but High-Quality Research Needed

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, soda, and USDA policy: who benefits?

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

The association between pregnancy weight gain and birthweight: a within-family comparison ⬇️

scientific article published on August 4, 2010

The glycemic index at 20 y

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

The glycemic index: Reports of its demise have been exaggerated

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

The glycemic index: physiological mechanisms relating to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease

scientific article

The importance of biodiversity to medicine

scientific article

The insulin-like growth factor axis: a potential link between glycemic index and cancer

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages

scientific article

The real cost of food: can taxes and subsidies improve public health?

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Three daily servings of reduced-fat milk: an evidence-based recommendation?

scientific article published in September 2013

Three-dimensional structure of cholera toxin penetrating a lipid membrane

scientific article

Tracking pediatric obesity: an index of uncertainty?

scientific article

Training in childhood obesity management in the United States: a survey of pediatric, internal medicine-pediatrics and family medicine residency program directors

scientific article

Two-dimensional crystals of cholera toxin B-subunit-receptor complexes: projected structure at 17-A resolution.

scientific article

Type 2 diabetes and the vegetarian diet

scientific article (publication date: September 2003)

Type 2 diabetes mellitus in children: primary care and public health considerations

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Weighing the data in studies of the glycaemic index

scientific article published on 11 December 2007

Weight loss strategies for adolescents: a 14-year-old struggling to lose weight.

scientific article published on 3 January 2012

Weight-loss maintenance--mind over matter?

scientific article published in November 2010

When children eat what they watch: impact of television viewing on dietary intake in youth

scientific article published in April 2006

List of works by David S. Ludwig

A low-glycemic index diet in the treatment of pediatric obesity

A low-glycemic-load versus low-fat diet in the treatment of fatty liver in obese children.

A physiological basis for disparities in diabetes and heart disease risk among racial and ethnic groups

A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st century

A randomized pilot study of dietary treatments for polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents

A randomized study of dietary composition during weight-loss maintenance: Rationale, study design, intervention, and assessment

A randomized trial of sugar-sweetened beverages and adolescent body weight

A reduced-glycemic load diet in the treatment of adolescent obesity.

A telephone intervention to achieve differentiation in dietary intake: a randomized trial in paediatric primary care

Accuracy of administrative coding for type 2 diabetes in children, adolescents, and young adults

Acute effects of dietary glycemic index on antioxidant capacity in a nutrient-controlled feeding study.

Adolescent obesity, a need for greater awareness and improved treatment.

Altering portion sizes and eating rate to attenuate gorging during a fast food meal: effects on energy intake

Antegrade intravenous catheterization for metabolic studies in man.

Anti-receptor antibodies designed to elicit "internal image"-bearing anti-idiotypes: a possible AIDS vaccine.

Antigenic determinants of the cholera/coli family of enterotoxins.

Are methods of estimating fat-free mass loss with energy-restricted diets accurate?

Artificially sweetened beverages: cause for concern.

Ask the doctor. More and more nutrition advice seems to be anti-sugar these days. So are artificial sweetners a good alternative?

Association of Consumption of Fried Food Away From Home With Body Mass Index and Diet Quality in Older Children and Adolescents

Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”

Best practice guidelines in pediatric/adolescent weight loss surgery.

Blood glucose and hormonal responses to small and large meals in healthy young and older women.

Bring back home economics education

Calorically restricted diets decrease PCSK9 in overweight adolescents

Carbohydrate-last meal pattern lowers postprandial glucose and insulin excursions in type 2 diabetes.

Carbohydrates and the postprandial state: have our cake and eat it too?

Caution needed on causal inferences in obesity

Childhood obesity--the shape of things to come

Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure

Compensation for energy intake from fast food among overweight and lean adolescents

Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research

Continuous glucose monitoring to assess the ecologic validity of dietary glycemic index and glycemic load ⬇️

Conversation with a Harvard expert. Dr. David S. Ludwig is a nutrition and obesity researcher at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston. His research has focused on the harmful health effects of high-glycemic load foods. He is author of "Endi

Creating an integrated care model for childhood obesity: a randomized pilot study utilizing telehealth in a community primary care setting.

Dietary Cholesterol and Blood Cholesterol Concentrations-Reply

Dietary fat: From foe to friend?

Dietary fiber, weight gain, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adults.

Dietary glycemic index and the regulation of body weight.

Dietary guidelines in the 21st century--a time for food

Does the concept of “ultra-processed foods” help inform dietary guidelines, beyond conventional classification systems? NO

Effect of low-dose insulin treatment on body weight and physical development in children and adolescents at risk for type 1 diabetes.

Effects of Advice to Drink 8 Cups of Water per Day in Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Content on Circulating Metabolic Fuel Availability in the Postprandial State

Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial

Effects of a low glycemic load or a low-fat dietary intervention on body weight in obese Hispanic American children and adolescents: a randomized controlled trial

Effects of a low-glycemic load diet in overweight and obese pregnant women: a pilot randomized controlled trial

Effects of a low-glycemic load diet on resting energy expenditure and heart disease risk factors during weight loss

Effects of a low-glycemic load vs low-fat diet in obese young adults: a randomized trial

Effects of an ad libitum low-glycemic load diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors in obese young adults

Effects of decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on body weight in adolescents: a randomized, controlled pilot study

Effects of diet composition on postprandial energy availability during weight loss maintenance

Effects of dietary composition on energy expenditure during weight-loss maintenance

Effects of dietary glycaemic index on adiposity, glucose homoeostasis, and plasma lipids in animals.

Effects of dietary glycemic index on brain regions related to reward and craving in men

Effects of fast-food consumption on energy intake and diet quality among children in a national household survey

Effects of high and low glycemic load meals on energy intake, satiety and hunger in obese Hispanic-American youth

Effects of replacing the habitual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages with milk in Chilean children

Effects of sodium benzoate, a widely used food preservative, on glucose homeostasis and metabolic profiles in humans

Elevated LDL Cholesterol with a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet: Evidence for a "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" Phenotype

Epidemic Childhood Obesity: Not Yet the End of the Beginning

Epitopes of the cholera family of enterotoxins.

Estimated morbidity and mortality in adolescents and young adults diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Examination of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene promoter in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Examining the Health Effects of Fructose ⬇️

Extra calories cause weight gain--but how much?

Fast-food habits, weight gain, and insulin resistance (the CARDIA study): 15-year prospective analysis.

Front-of-package food labels: public health or propaganda?

Functional interactions between melanin-concentrating hormone, neuropeptide Y, and anorectic neuropeptides in the rat hypothalamus ⬇️

Genetic Evidence That Carbohydrate-Stimulated Insulin Secretion Leads to Obesity.

Glycemic index is as reliable as macronutrients on food labels

Glycemic load comes of age.

Hard facts about soft drinks.

Health-related quality of life in adolescents with or at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus

Hepatic steatosis and increased adiposity in mice consuming rapidly vs. slowly absorbed carbohydrate

Hepatic, adipocyte, enteric and pancreatic hormones: response to dietary macronutrient composition and relationship with metabolism

High glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity.

How early should obesity prevention start?

Identifying whole grain foods: a comparison of different approaches for selecting more healthful whole grain products ⬇️