James Rippe

James M. Rippe (born June 26, 1947)[1] is an American cardiologist. He is the founder and director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Education

Rippe received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1969 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1979.[1]

Career

From 1983 to 1993, Rippe worked at the Exercise Physiology and Nutrition Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1] He was an associate professor of medicine at Tufts University from 1994 to 2012.[1] From 2005 to 2010, he was a professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Central Florida, where he was also the chairman of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1]

Research

Rippe's research has found that the health benefits of exercise extend to mild exercises, such as walking, and that the benefit from walking is about the same regardless of walking speed.[2] He has been described as "a founder of the fitness walking movement."[3]

According to the New York Times, he received $10 million in funds between 2010 and 2014 from the Corn Refiners Association to study the health effects of high fructose corn syrup and published reports "disputing any special health consequences associated with the corn-based sweeter." He also received a $41,000-a-month fee from the association, which the Times said was for him "to serve as an outside expert whom it repeatedly asked to send commentary pieces to local newspapers and dispute any claims that consuming high-fructose corn syrup in foods was any riskier than sugar."[4][5]

Rippe is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.[6] Rippe has published 56 books, including Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health,[7] Obesity Prevention and Treatment,[8] Lifestyle Medicine Third Edition,[9] and Nutrition in Lifestyle Medicine.[10]

References
  1. "James M. Rippe Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. Higdon, Hal (16 August 1988). "Exercise To Keep Quitters Going 12-minute Workout Helps Overall Health". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  3. Hellmich, Nanci (19 August 2007). "Is TV's 'Fat March' out of step?". USA Today. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. Lipton, Eric (11 February 2014). "Rival Industries Sweet-Talk the Public". The New York Times.
  5. Hamburger, Tom (12 February 2014). "Inside the secretive war between sugar and corn syrup". Washington Post.
  6. "Journal of Intensive Care Medicine". Sage Publications. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  7. "Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health". November 2011.
  8. "Obesity Prevention and Treatment". October 2016.
  9. "Lifestyle Medicine, Third Edition". May 2019.
  10. "Nutrition in Lifestyle Medicine". January 2017.
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