Rate My Professor Michael Lowe

Lowe's research specializes in the biobehavioral aspects of eating and weight regulation, including obesity, eating disorders, dieting, hedonic hunger, weight suppression, and weight variability. He developed the Power of Food Scale, a validated measure of hedonic hunger employed in hundreds of studies worldwide and clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk. As principal or co-investigator on multiple NIH grants exceeding $10 million in funding, including the POWERS study (2021-2026), he investigates physiological and behavioral factors in weight regain and eating disorders. Lowe has consulted for Weight Watchers and the Renfrew Center. Notable publications include "Describing the weight-reduced state: Physiology, behavior, and interventions" (Aronne et al., 2021, Obesity), "The effect of weight suppression on eating behavior" (Chen et al., 2022, Appetite), and "Hedonic hunger prospectively predicts ... loss of control eating" (Lowe et al., 2016, Health Psychology). His work has profoundly influenced the field by reevaluating dieting efficacy and self-regulation treatments.