Author

Books by David A. Kessler

David A. Kessler served as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, where he led the effort to regulate tobacco and oversaw the nutrition label reform. He subsequently served as dean of Yale Medical School and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. In addition to The End of Overeating, he has written A Question of Intent, about the FDA's tobacco regulation fight, and Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, which extends his work on processed food to refined carbohydrates.