#380: Prof. Barry Popkin – The Nutrition Transition & Using Policy Actions to Create Healthier Diets

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Prof. Barry Popkin is the W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a nutrition and obesity researcher at the Carolina Population Center and is the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at UNC.

He developed the concept of the Nutrition Transition, the study of the dynamic shifts in dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends around obesity and other nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NCD). Prof. Popkin is involved now in work on program and policy design at the national level to improve the average diet at the population level.

He has published more than 545 journal articles, and is one of the most cited nutrition scholars in the world, with more than 90,000 citations.

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0:00.0	Hello, you are very welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
0:17.6	We are at episode 380 of the podcast. And as always, I'm your host, Danny Lennon.
0:25.5	You're very welcome back or welcome to the podcast if this is a first time listening. And we have a
0:32.3	real treat for you today. This is a discussion that I'm not only delighted to be able to bring to you,
0:39.0	but was one that was really a true honor for me to have, given the esteem that today's guest
0:46.9	is held in the area of nutrition and obesity research. My guest today is Professor Barry Popkin, who is the W.R. Keenan Jr.
0:58.6	Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1:04.1	And at UNC, he's also the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity.
1:10.3	And Professor Popkin developed the concept of the nutrition
1:15.3	going back to his work from the 90s. And if you've listened to previous episodes of this podcast,
1:22.1	particularly when we talk about public health or nutritional epidemiology, you probably would
1:27.2	have heard some reference to that.
1:29.1	Most notably on one of our recent episodes related to nutritional epidemiology specifically,
1:34.6	you probably would have heard Alan go into some bit of detail about the concept of the nutrition
1:39.9	transition. So Professor Popkin was the person who developed that idea and has done extensive
1:46.3	research on that. So this idea essentially being that study of these dynamic shifts in dietary
1:52.7	intake and physical activity patterns and trends related to obesity that have happened over certain
1:59.8	periods of time. And Professor Popkin is involved now in work on both program and policy design at a national level
2:08.6	to try and improve the average diet at a population-wide level and continues to be prolific in his research.
2:16.6	So at this point, he has published around 550 and continues to be prolific in his research.
2:23.3	So at this point, he has published around 550 peer-review journal articles and is one of the most cited nutrition researchers in the world
2:28.3	with more than 90,000 citations at the point of this particular recording.
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