SNP21: Sick Individuals and Sick Populations
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Links:
About this episode:
In 1985 a paper titled "Sick Individuals and Sick Populations" was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
The paper, authored by eminent epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose, can be considered as seminal and important because it brilliantly raised the concept of the "prevention paradox" and challenged traditional approaches to public health and preventive medicine.
The paper's insights have had a lasting impact on how we understand and approach population health interventions. And it raised many contentious public health issues, which are still debated and relevant today.
The ideas have very important implications for how we can tackle diet-related diseases in meaningful ways.
In this episode, Danny and Alan discuss the central themes of the paper, why they are so crucial to understand, and what this means for our understanding of diet and chronic disease prevention.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. As you are currently listening on the public feed of the |
| 0:06.0 | podcast, what you're going to listen to today is a preview of one of our premium exclusive episodes. |
| 0:11.6 | These are episodes that we publish in their entirety on our Sigma Nutrition Premium podcast feed, |
| 0:17.7 | and therefore to listen to that in its entirety, you need to be a Sigma Nutrition |
| 0:21.5 | Premium Subscriber. Being a premium subscriber also gives you a host of other benefits, |
| 0:26.1 | including detailed study notes to our podcast episodes and full episode transcripts, |
| 0:31.8 | as well as other materials that help you get more from your podcast listening. |
| 0:36.7 | So take a listen to this preview today. I hope you |
| 0:39.3 | enjoy it. And if you want to get these extra bonus podcast episodes in their entirety, as well as those |
| 0:44.8 | other benefits, then take a look at Sigma Nutrition Premium, which is linked in the description |
| 0:49.5 | box wherever you're currently listening or over on Sigma Nutrition.com slash premium. See if it's for you, |
| 0:56.3 | maybe give it a try and I think it's really going to enhance how much you learn and retain |
| 1:00.7 | from these podcast episodes. So without further ado, please enjoy this preview of today's episode. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon and with me is Dr. |
| 1:25.6 | Alan Flanagan. Alan, what's going on? Not a lot. Not a lot. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm safely back in the UK to some more temperate weather. You are not. No. 42 degrees. |
| 1:37.8 | Still sticking it out in the hot stickiness of more southern Europe. So hopefully you're feeling well rested and back |
| 1:46.1 | on top of your game. Exactly, exactly. A month in the sun, I've had my fill. I have 25 hydroxy |
| 1:53.7 | vitamin D levels that I presume will stock me until March of next year. So I'm good. The kind of sum is |
| 1:59.9 | that Alan has his vitamin D topped up and is feeling good. |
| 2:03.6 | So we can expect a very sharp podcast today. |
| 2:06.6 | So indeed, we're going to be continuing on with our series where we are looking at seminal papers, |
| 2:14.6 | important publications that have came out in relation to nutrition science, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Danny Lennon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Danny Lennon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.