\"Metabolic Diseases\" Theodore Van Itallie Signed FDC Dated 1959 for Sale

\"Metabolic Diseases\" Theodore Van Itallie Signed FDC Dated 1959 For Sale

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\"Metabolic Diseases\" Theodore Van Itallie Signed FDC Dated 1959:
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Up for sale "Metabolic Diseases" Theodore Van Itallie Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1959.

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Dr. Theodore Van Itallie, obesity expert and leading researcher in metabolic diseases, died September 14 in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He was 99. The author of over 200 publications, Dr. Van Itallie was the first to demonstrate that weight loss was a function of calorie reduction, not changes in the protein or other composition of the diet. He publicly refuted the "calories don't count" school of weight loss and often provided the popular press with responsible medicine's commentary on the latest fad diet. Dr. Van Itallie was born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1919. He graduated from Deerfield Academy, Harvard College and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy Medical Corps and saw active duty in the Pacific theatre. Returning from Japan in 1948, Dr. Van Itallie completed his residency training at St. Luke's Hospital in New York and accepted a research and teaching position at Harvard Medical School. He returned to St. Luke's as Director of Medicine in 1957. St. Luke's became a Columbia University teaching hospital under his leadership. In 1975 Dr. Van Itallie stepped down as Director of Medicine to run the first NIH-funded center for obesity research. Retiring from the Obesity Research Center in 1988, Dr. Van Itallie continued his devotion to medical research, publishing over 48 journal articles, consulting on clinical research and devoting special attention to ketone esters as a therapeutic agent for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. He was a dedicated amateur historian, authoring numerous articles on the history of the Florida west coast and serving as president of the Florida Historical Society 2001-2003. Dr. Van Itallie's first marriage, to Barbara Cox, ended in divorce. His second wife, Sallie Newton Calhoun, died in 2012. His five children survive him: Lucy Borge, of Quogue, NY, Theodore Jr. of Princeton, NJ, Christina Van Itallie of Bethesda, MD, Elizabeth Van Itallie and Katharine Van Itallie of New York City, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.