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Dr. John P. Foreyt is a professor in the departments of medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. He also is the director of the DeBakey Heart Center's Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor.

Dr. Foreyt received his BS in psychology from the University of Wisconsin and his MS and PhD in clinical psychology from Florida State University. He served on the faculty at Florida State University until moving to the Baylor College of Medicine. 

He has served as a member of the National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, National Institutes of Health; The Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; and The Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Adults at High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease, National Institutes of Health, NHLBI.

Dr. Foreyt has published extensively in the areas of diet modification, cardiovascular risk reduction, eating disorders, and obesity, including 17 books and more than 300 articles.