And Stunkard, as you know perhaps better than anybody, was an extremely compassionate, empathic person. You know, they won’t stay in treatment, they won’t lose weight, they’ll regain it. Today, we might say stigmatizing people with obesity. Stunkard’s statement sounds somewhat critical. So if we fast forward to today, do you think this is essentially still true? And of those who do lose weight most will regain it.” There was a stark honesty to this, and it motivated Stunkard to help overweight people. He wrote that “most obese persons will not stay in treatment. So one of the most famous quotes of all time in our field came from Mickey Stunkard in 1959, no less, way before the field was really paying attention to obesity. So let me begin by asking something regarding our former mentor, Albert Stunkard. You’re one of the people in the field I admire most, both for the quality of your work and the breadth of your knowledge across various treatments for obesity. You and I grew up together in this profession, having spent some early years together working on treatments for obesity. His research has been supported for more than 35 years by grants from the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 500 scientific papers and book chapters and has co-edited seven books, the most recent of which is the Handbook of Obesity Treatment (with George A. He has also investigated the metabolic and psychosocial consequences of obesity and of intentional weight loss, the latter as represented by findings from the 16-year long Look AHEAD study. Wadden’s principal research is on the treatment of obesity by methods that have included lifestyle modification, very-low-calorie diets, physical activity, medication, and surgery. in 1975 from Brown University and his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1981 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as director of the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders from 1993 to 2017 and was appointed in 2011 (through 2021) as the inaugural Albert J. is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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