Food Compass: a new food scoring system | Professor Dariush Mozaffarian

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Simon Hill

Nutrition, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Episode #246. Have you ever considered the way our current food system was shaped? Or the way it continues to impact modern dietary guidelines? This episode is for you. In this conversation with distinguished researcher Professor Dariush Mozaffarian, we analyse the past 120 years of nutrition science and assess how this research continues to impact the modern diet. We cover: Introduction (00:00) A Journey Through Nutrition Science History (03:49) The Food Industry's Contributions to Improving Vitamin and Calorie Deficiency and What Went Wrong (16:05) The Evolution of Dietary Guidelines (26:59) Are Food Rating Systems Accurate? (37:48) Is the Role of Saturated Fat in Nutrition Neutral? (44:22) Understanding the Algorithm Behind Tufts' Food Compass (46:57) Industry Funding and Scientific Research (52:03) Validating the Food Compass Scoring System (57:04) Are Breakfast Cereals Healthier? (01:04:45) The Food Compass System: A Work in Progress (01:08:04) Exploring the Uses of the Food Compass and the Possibility of Improving Its Functionality (01:10:33) Takeaways (01:29:19) Outro (01:34:50) If you found this conversation informative, you can learn more about Dr Mozaffarian here, and read more of his work here. If you have any additional questions you would like answered in future, make sure to leave a comment on YouTube. Discover more insights and supporting resources in the full show notes. Enjoy, friends. Simon Want to support the show? The best way to support the show is to use the products and services offered by our sponsors. To check them out, and enjoy great savings, visit theproof.com/friends. You can also show your support by leaving a review on the Apple Podcast app and/or sharing your favourite episodes with your friends and family. Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons) Creator of theproof.com and host of The Proof with Simon Hill Author of The Proof is in the Plants Watch the episodes on YouTube or listen on Apple/Spotify Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Nourish your gut with my Plant-Based Ferments Guide Download my complimentary two-week meal plan and high protein Plant Performance recipe book

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0:48.8	The food sector from farms to food manufacturers largely did what we asked them to do.
0:53.5	We asked them to create shelf-stable, cheap, star-cheek calories that were fortified with
0:58.6	vitamins.
0:59.6	If you walk down the cereal aisle today and you see these boxes and boxes of processed
1:04.0	products, fortified with vitamins, that was a very conscious creation of the goals of
1:08.2	the last century.
1:09.5	We started realizing around 1980 that diets more important than just calories and vitamins.
1:14.9	We started saying maybe diets related to heart disease and cancer and diabetes and these
1:19.9	other problems.
1:21.1	The challenge is we created this food system to address vitamins and calories, not overall
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