#353: James Hébert, ScD – Dietary Inflammatory Index

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dr. James Hébert is a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist, currently a distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Hébert’s professional focus for the past several years has been on developing and refining the Dietary Inflammatory Index™ (DII®), which has now been established as an effective research tool.

Dr. Hébert is also a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, a Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina, a Professor of Community Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, and the Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program.

Dr. Hébert obtained his ScD (Doctor of Science) in nutritional epidemiology from Harvard University in 1984.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. It's the podcast that brings you deep discussions about nutritional science.
0:21.6	I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 353 of the podcast.
0:28.1	Now, back in episode 329, we discussed diet and inflammation.
0:35.1	And if you haven't listened to that episode already, I would encourage you maybe to put
0:40.5	that on your to-do list. It was one of the episodes that I think got quite a lot of good feedback
0:45.9	and hopefully clarified an area where there's a lot of misunderstanding. Now, for those of you
0:51.4	who did listen to that episode, we referenced the Dietary Inflammatory Index a number of times throughout the episode.
0:59.5	And so today I'm absolutely delighted and honored to be joined by Dr. James Hebert, who is the creator, developer of the Dietary Inflammatory Index, which the original version was from back in 2004.
1:13.6	There was then a second updated version a number of years later, and since then has been continually refined
1:19.3	and is now pretty well established as a very effective research tool, and many other groups now
1:24.8	will use the index when they're looking at the influence of diet on inflammation,
1:30.9	and therefore disease risk that relates to inflammation.
1:34.0	And so that is going to be central to what we're going to discuss today, that diet, inflammation, disease, relationship,
1:41.1	and where the index in particular may fit into that.
1:46.7	Now, Dr. James Hibair is a nutritional and cancer epidemiologist. He's currently a distinguished professor at the University
1:52.5	of South Carolina. And of course, over the last number of years, in particular, his professional
1:58.2	focus has been on developing and refining the DII.
2:01.6	Dr. Haybert also holds a number of adjunct positions as a professor in many other departments across
2:08.6	both the University of South Carolina, as well as the Medical University of South Carolina,
2:14.6	and he's the director of their cancer prevention and control program.
2:19.2	And Dr. Haybert obtained his doctor of science degree in nutritional epidemiology from Harvard
2:24.9	University back in 1984. So we are going to dig into all sorts of things related to diet
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