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Here's your host, Danny Lennon.

Hey there everyone and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. It's episode 54 today and because we're in the Thursday show slot, this was expected to be a shorter format like 20 minute show and continue on where we left off last week on the topic of fiber.

But as you will know from the past few podcasts and blog posts,

we've got into the ideas of calorie density, satiety, satiation,

a volume of food and how all that can help, like manage our caloric intake without having to track

things. It can make dieting phase a lot more bearable and I've been getting into a lot of those

topics. And because I'd kind of presented a lot of my thoughts and what I'd found it in my own

kind of research through this, I wanted to get on someone

that would be a true expert in the area to get into a few more of those topics. And I give you

the latest on what we know from research on these areas. So I had the opportunity to talk to

Dr. Barbara Rawls, who is the professor and chair at the Nutritional Science Department

in Penn State University.

And really, she's probably her and her group, the world leader in research in this area.

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