Julia Belluz on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Science writer Julia Belluz of Vox.com talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of epidemiology, nutrition, and the relationship between obesity and metabolism.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
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0:33.5	Today is October 16, 2018, and my guest is Julia Beluz, the senior health correspondent
0:39.7	at Vox.com, where she focuses on medicine, science, and public health.
0:44.5	She holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics, Julia, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:48.7	Thank you so much, great to be here.
0:50.9	Our topic for today is epidemiology, and if we get to it, I hope we can talk also about
0:56.5	metabolism and diet, two concepts and issues you've written a lot about, especially recently.
1:03.2	According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs, epidemiology is, quote, the study of health
1:07.8	in populations to understand the causes and patterns of health and illness.
1:13.2	Close quote, we're going to be looking at a number of articles you've written on epidemiology
1:16.0	that challenges of actually figuring out the truth about these issues, which is quite
1:19.5	hard as Lister's Doe from our past conversations.
1:24.1	I want to start with an article you wrote about a recent study in Lancet that argued that
1:28.4	the safest level of drinking in the Steinbeard alcohol is none zero.
1:35.6	Do you agree with that conclusion?
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