Addressing Some Criticisms of Nutritional Epidemiology (SNP 23)
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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About This Episode
Nutritional epidemiology has faced strong criticism over time. While some of the methodological limitations are fair, often there are criticisms that are misguided and inaccurate.
In this episode, Danny touches on a few examples of the misunderstandings of the field and how such claims can be addressed in a more accurate manner.
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| 1:03.1 | So without further ado, please enjoy this preview of today's episode. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lenin. You are very welcome to the podcast. And in this special episode of the podcast, |
| 1:29.6 | we're going to go through a topic that gets raised multiple times because of the importance of it, |
| 1:35.0 | but also something that is worth consolidating many of the important ideas on. And that is the |
| 1:41.0 | whole entire field of nutritional epidemiology. |
| 1:50.0 | But in particular, as we have referenced on previous episodes of the podcast, there are a number of criticisms and shortcomings of the field that get leveled at it quite regularly. |
| 1:56.3 | And some of these have a clear basis that are well known within academia, and I don't think |
| 2:02.5 | any nutritional epidemiologist disregards them. In fact, they're very aware of them, and their |
| 2:07.3 | idea of doing better work is to account for such potential limitations or challenges that |
| 2:13.4 | there is, particularly when we're doing epidemiology in the field of nutrition. |
| 2:18.2 | However, there are some other criticisms that often get leveled at the field and in many cases |
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