Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host as ever,

Danny Lennon. And this episode is a supplemental follow-up episode to our recent diet and cardiovascular

disease series of Sigma statements, which have been recently published over on the Sigma Nutrition website.

Now, if you're unfamiliar with those, we've recently launched our Sigma statements, which are

these long form written pieces that are an attempt to clarify some of the more complex or

confusing or most hotly debated topics in the area of nutritional and health science.

And our first topic to address was how diet plays a role on heart disease.

And so we had this broken into three separate parts, which hopefully now should make sense why we did so.

So those three statements that you can now find on the site include part one is on cholesterol,

lipoproteins and lipids, and looking at the impact of lipoproteins and lipids on cardiovascular

disease risk.

Part two then looks at how diet affects those blood lipids and how changes in the

nutrients and foods within our diet can change that lipid profile that alters risk. And then the

third part, which is just being released as this podcast episode goes out, basically ties all of that

together and looks at the relationship

between diet and heart disease risk and looks at outcomes. So looking at how diet and changes in

diet can impact the outcomes related to coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease more

generally.

So if you haven't read those yet, I encourage you going and doing so either before this or feel free to listen to this episode before you do so as well.

But reading through those three pieces should hopefully clarify a lot.

But what we did realize is that when we are trying to have a concise, comprehensive piece like we did,

there's always going to be some interesting follow-up questions, pieces of nuance that maybe didn't make it into the final statements,

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