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The Dr. Hyman Show

Can A Food Product Scoring System Improve Our Diet And Eliminate Nutrition Confusion? with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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When it comes to diet, there's so much changing and conflicting information flying around that it can feel impossible to know where to look for sound advice. Decades of nutritional misguidance, lobbying, and corrupt food policies have only left us more confused when we head to the grocery store.


Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I talk to Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian about Food Compass, a new food rating system aimed to help determine the general healthfulness of different foods and cut through the confusion when it comes to our food choices. 


Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Special Advisor to the Provost, Dean for Policy, and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and Professor of Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine. His work aims to create the science and translation for a food system that is nutritious, equitable, and sustainable.


Dr. Mozaffarian has authored more than 500 scientific publications on dietary priorities for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, and on evidence-based policy approaches and innovations to reduce diet-related diseases in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory roles, and his work has been featured in a wide array of media outlets. Thomson Reuters has named him as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.


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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

  • Challenges and limitations of nutrition research (5:36 / 3:40)
  • Food rating systems (14:02 / 11:50) 
  • The Food Compass rating system (26:14 / 19:43) 
  • Development and scoring domains of the Food Compass (30:34 / 25:18) 
  • Comparing Food Compass to other scoring systems (39:44 / 34:27) 
  • Research on how following Food Compass would affect health (41:57 / 36:49)
  • Distinguishing a processed vs ultra-processed food (50:25 / 43:26) 
  • Limitations of and areas of controversy with Food Compass (1:00:46 / 55:46)
  • How Food Compass scores cholesterol (1:07:11 / 1:01:54) 


Mentioned in this episode

2022 Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Report




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