#223: Prof. Christopher Gardner - DIETFITS Trial 2018: Low-Fat vs Low-Carb Weight Loss Diets and Effect of Genotype and Insulin Secretion

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Prof. Gardner is the Director of Nutrition Studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. His postgraduate training included a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease epidemiology at Stanford.

Dr. Gardner is passionate about two central questions that keep him up at night and get him to jump out of bed most mornings. The first of these is: What can people eat and drink (or avoid/limit) to optimize their health? Dr. Gardner has recently shifted much of his energies to a second and more challenging question: What forces and factors can successfully motivate people to improve their food and beverage choice behaviors?

Study Discussed: Gardner et al., 2018 – Effect of Low-Fat vs Low-Carbohydrate Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults and the Association With Genotype Pattern or Insulin Secretion: The DIETFITS Randomized Clinical Trial

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0:00.0	While the average was 12 versus 13 in the two groups, plenty of people lost 30, 40, and 50 pounds.
0:15.0	And one of the most consistent themes we heard from those people had nothing to do with low fat or low
0:20.9	park.
0:22.2	Those people told us we helped them change their relationship to food.
0:26.6	They said, we listened to when you said, don't eat in the car, don't eat in front of a screen,
0:32.5	go to the farmer's market, cook more, cook more for yourself, cook more for your family, sit down, put the floor down once in a while and talk to the people that Sigma Nutrition Radio, where episode
1:07.4	223 of the podcast today.
1:11.1	And as ever, I am your host, Danny Lennon.
1:14.7	And today's episode is one I am super, super excited for.
1:19.7	I'm really, really honored to be able to have the chance to talk with Professor Christopher
1:25.0	Gardner today about a very recent study that has drawn a lot of
1:30.2	attention within nutritional science as well as in the mainstream media as well. I've got hold of
1:35.9	this because it's a phenomenal trial, as we'll talk about later in the show, extremely extensive
1:42.3	and answers a few very interesting
1:44.5	questions as well as throwing some up as ever so for those you unaware
1:50.6	professor gardner is just an outstanding researcher who has been doing phenomenal
1:56.6	work for a long period of time extremely highly reputable within the field and is pretty much
2:03.4	known across the whole world of nutritional science. He's the director of nutrition studies at
2:09.2	the Stanford Prevention Research Center and is also professor of medicine at Stanford University
2:15.0	as well. And a lot of his work over the years has been in various different areas related to health and
2:22.1	nutrition, but this recent trial that they put together has been five years in the making.
2:28.3	And it's been deemed the Diet Fits randomized clinical trial, so that acronym, at least for diet fits. And the paper is titled
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