Hello, this is Sigma Nutrition Radio. I'm your host, Danny Lennon. We're at episode

345 of the podcast.

And today I'm going to be talking to Dr. Rebecca Leach, who is a registered nutritionist and nutritional epidemiologist,

funded by the Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship and is based at Deakin University's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition.

Rebecca has a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, and she was awarded the Alfred Deacon Medal for her doctoral thesis,

which examined adult eating patterns and their associations with diet quality and obesity.

And her postdoc research since then has extended on much of this work

and attempts to work out better methodology for defining and understanding the determinants of food intake

at various eating occasions and the role of eating patterns in cardiobinabolic health.

And throughout this conversation today, we wanted to not only get an overview of some

of the findings from that work, but get into some of the reasons why some of this research

can be challenging.

So hopefully it's interesting to you and informative, not only from the implications of that work,

but also to give a better understanding of how some

of this research is typically done and things you can be on the lookout for as you read research

yourself. The show notes are going to be over at sigmautrition.com slash episode 3,4,5, and there

you can get transcripts of this and previous episodes of the podcasts.

You can get links to various research papers that are mentioned throughout this conversation,

as well as other resources like past episodes and anything else that's relevant to this conversation.

And whilst you're over on sigmanutrition.com, check out some of the other things we have there.

If you're looking for educational content, we have our written Sigma statements,

which are a set of written long-form statements on particular topics related to nutrition and health science,

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