#205 Nutrition Studies, Coffee and the CRAVE Trial: Beyond Journal Club with the NEJM Group
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
Core IM Team
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Is coffee helping or harming our patients’ hearts?
In this Beyond Journal Club, we unpack the CRAVE trial and use it as a lens to answer a bigger question:
How should clinicians interpret nutrition research, especially when it feels inconsistent or hard to trust?
Listen for a concise, practical framework you can use the next time a patient asks about coffee, diet, or lifestyle.
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00:00 | Challenges of interpreting nutritional research.
02:22 | Best practices for evaluating studies in nutrition.
12:35 | Delve into the CRAVE trial as an example of critically appraising nutritional investigations.
26:41 | Applying this to clinical practice for your patients.
Tags: IMCore, Internal Medicine, Medical Education, Epidemiology, Diet and Lifestyle
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| 1:10.9 | I think almost everyone picking up the newspaper looking online, especially online, is likely |
| 1:16.9 | very confused about how diet affects health or anything else because you'll find for almost |
| 1:23.0 | every food that if you look on the internet, it's either going to kill you or make you almost |
| 1:27.0 | immortal, everything in between. Yes, the internet, it's either going to kill you or make you almost immortal, |
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