#15 - Prof. Andrew Mente

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The PURE study is one of the largest epidemiological studies in recent memory, and its findings seriously question the dietary guidelines around fat, carbohydrates and salt. In fact, the PURE study suggests that higher fat intake reduced mortality, that lower salt intake increases mortality, and it even shows us how LDL is a poor predictor of health outcomes. As an epidemiology study, how much faith can we place in the results, and how do these results fit into to our current knowledge base? Professor Mente helps us make sense of these questions and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Diet Doctor Podcast with Dr. Brett Schur.
0:06.0	Today I'm joined by Professor Andrew Menti.
0:09.0	Now, Professor Menti has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto.
0:14.0	He's done his postdoc work in cardiovascular epidemiology from McMaster University
0:20.0	and he's an associate professor of health research methods at McMaster University, and he's an associate professor of
0:21.9	health research methods at McMaster University. And most recently, he was one of the co-investigators
0:28.2	on the lifestyle and the nutritional side of the Pure study. Now, Pure is this enormous study
0:34.4	over five continents, 18 different countries, over 135,000 different individuals
0:40.2	that has had some pretty profound research evidence as it comes to saturated fats, cholesterol,
0:47.0	fat in general, and their implication on overall mortality. It has a number of data on salt intake
0:54.0	and mortality, and a lot of it is contrary to conventional
0:58.0	wisdom and guidelines.
0:59.0	Now, all that being said, this is an epidemiological study and we definitely talk about the
1:05.0	strengths and benefits of epidemiology versus randomized control trial, and he has a good
1:10.0	perspective on how we really
1:11.2	sort of need both to further research and affect policy. So there's a lot of data here going over
1:17.8	the pure study and it has some pretty profound impacts on the way we should make recommendations
1:24.6	and how we should see older recommendations and they're falling.
1:28.0	So I hope you enjoy this interview with Professor Andrew Menti and learn a lot about the pure
1:33.3	study and understand how we can use that data in our daily lives.
1:42.3	Professor Andrew Menti, thank you so much for joining me on the Diet Doctor podcast.
1:46.2	Oh, pleasure to be here.
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