Dr. Gene A. Spiller has an MS and a PhD in nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley, a doctorate from the University of Milan (Italy) and did additional extensive studies at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS). a fellow of the American College of Nutrition and a member of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition and of other professional societies.
Among the world leading expert on use of dietary fiber, nuts and seeds in human nutrition, He has chaired symposia on fiber and other nutrients at professional nutrition meetings. He is the editor of scientific books on fiber, the first one published in 1975 when fiber was beginning to find the proper place in nutrition. Following that book he edited three edition of the CRC Handbook of Fiber in Human Nutrition, from 1982 to 2001 and is the author of many other scientific and popular books on nutrition.
Recent popular books include What's with Fiber (2005), Diagnosis: Heart Disease, Ancient Food for the New Millennium . His professional book include 3 editions of Hand Book of Dietary Fiber, Caffeine, Nutritional Pharmacology and many others.
He is the director and founder of the Sphera Foundation (http://www.sphera.org) and of the Health Research and Studies Center in Los Altos California, both organizations involved in human nutrition studies, writing of popular and scientific books and production of educational videos for school. He has over 100 papers and abstract in scientific journals.
SOME ARTICLES, STUDIES AND REPORTS
Spiller GA, Jenkins DJA, Cragen LN, Gates JE, Bosello O, Berra K, Rudd C, Sstevenson M, Superko R. : Effect of a diet high in monounsaturated fat from almonds on plasma cholesterol and lipoproteins. 1992
Spiller GA, Jenkins DAJ, Bosello O, Gates JE, Cragen LN, Bruce B: Nuts and plasma lipids: an almond-based diet lowers LDL-C while preserving, 1998
Jenkins DJA, Kendall CWC, Marchie A, Parker TL, Connelly PW, Qian W, Haight JS, Faulner D, Vidgen E, Lapsley KG, Spiller GA. : Dose response of almonds on coronary heart disease risk factors: blood lipids, oxidized low-density lipoproteins, lipoportein (a), homocysteine, and pulmonary nitric oxide; a randomized, controlled, crossover trial. 2002
Spiller GA, Miller A, Olivera K, Reynolds J, Miller B, Morse S, Dewell A, Farquhar J. : Effects of Plant-based diets high in raw or roasted almonds, or roasted almond butter on serum lipoproteins in humans, 2003.
Spiller GA, Story JA, Butterfield G, Pollack M, and Spiller M. Health Research and Studies Center, Los Altos, CA; Purdue University, W. Lafayette; IN, Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA. : EFFECT OF SUN-DRIED RAISINS ON BILE ACID EXCRETION, INTESTINAL TRANSIT TIME AND FECAL WEIGHT- A DOSE-RESPONSE STUDY (ABSTRACT PRESENTED AT THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION IN LAS VEGAS, OCTOBER 2000)
Gene Spiller, PhD and Bonnie Bruce: PHYTOCHEMICAL- AND FIBER-RICH SUN-DRIED RAISINS CAN PLAY A KEY ROLE IN CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING AND DISEASE-PREVENTION DIETS
Whole Foods Study Reinforces Fiber- and Phytochemical-Rich-Diet Link to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Colon Health
Spiller, GA AND Miller, AF. Sphera Foundation, Los Altos, CA. : SUN-DRIED RAISINS RAISE PLASMA POSTPRANDIAL ANTIOXIDANT STATUS IN HEALTHY ADULTS. OCTOBER 2001 - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION, ORLANDO, FLORIDA.
SOME BOOKS
G.Spiller, B.Bruce: Cancer survivor's Nutrition & Health guide: Eating well and getting better during and after cancer treatment, 1996
G. Spiller: handbook of lipids in human nutrition, 2003
G. Spiller: The trans fats dilemma and natural palm oil, 2004
G. Spiller: Eat your way to better health: good health and good recipes with the superpyramid eating program, 1996
G. Spiller: Handbook of dietary fiber in human nutrition, 2001
G. Spiller: heart disease, answers to your questions about recovery and lasting health, 2001
G. Spiller: the Mediterranean diets in health disease, 2001
