Brief Biography, Will Clower, Ph.D.
Award-winning author Dr. Will Clower applies his neuroscience knowledge to explain how the Mediterranean culture can enjoy their rich healthy foods and still be thinner than us, with healthy hearts and longer lives.
After earning his neuroscience Ph.D., Dr. Clower went to France for two years to do research on the brain, but found the French fascinating enough. The cultural habits of these thin, healthy people intrigued him to write the highly-praised cultural comparison, The Fat Fallacy.
Dr. Clower’s breakthrough work has been featured everywhere from The View with Barbara Walters, Fox News, CBS, and ABCNews, to USA Today, New York Times, Readers Digest, and Cosmopolitan Magazine.His work has also garnered recommendations by luminaries such as Julia Child, Peter Mayle, Dr. Dean Edell, and Susan Loomis.
A national media presence: With humor and clarity, Dr. Clower simplifies the complexities of healthy eating, boiling complicated ideas into easily digestible bites. Dr. Clower is a frequent health expert for the Los Angeles NPR station KCRW, as well as for WRXQ in Washington DC. In print, he has contributed original work for Marie Claire Magazine,many national dailies, along with his quarterly column for Table Magazine.
The PATH Curriculum:
In The PATH Curriculum, Dr. Clower now brings his skills as an educator to bear in a corporate wellness environment, medical centers, and academic institutions.
The PATH Curriculum makes the results of the healthy Mediterranean lifestyle – low weight, healthy hearts, and longer lives – accessible to Americans.
This Mediterranean approach is now run at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, to investigate the control of glucose for diabetics. These investigation center on the adoption of the Mediterranean food guide pyramid, along with condition healthy eating behaviors for long term control.
Work on childhood obesity: Dr. Clower was awarded the “Healthy School Hero” for his contributions to the Action For Healthy Kids Organization. AFHK is a national organization started by First Lady Laura Bush and former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher to reduce childhood obesity by raising the nutrition and activity standards in our nation’s schools. Clower’s work has also been applied to a successful program for school children (6th – 8th grades) in Pittsburgh and New York City.