SNR #255: Alan Flanagan – Public Health Nutrition & the Role of Epidemiology

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Alan is a qualified lawyer and nutritionist based in Dublin, Ireland. Alan has a Masters in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey. And in 2019 he will be starting his PhD work at the same institution, focusing on chrononutrition.

In This Episode We Discuss:

Public health messaging vs. individual advice
Barriers to better nutrition at the population level
What policies could make a difference?
Do we know what a healthy dietary pattern is?
Addressing criticisms of nutritional epidemiology
Understanding the hierarchy of evidence: quality of evidence vs. proof standards

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0:00.0	The question is, do we have enough of a basis from looking at diet patterns and food groups
0:17.7	to make recommendations to people that are broadly consistent with what we know
0:23.2	about the interaction between diet and health while the mechanistic research can continue going
0:29.5	and this is a really important point because if we start looking at nutrition at the level
0:33.0	of diet pattern and food groups we can actually make recommendations for people or make conclusions
0:41.1	to a degree based on the interaction between diet and health before a full mechanistic
0:45.8	understanding of what's at play is at work. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:02.6	I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon, and we are at episode 255 of the podcast today.
1:10.3	Before I get into our discussion, I just want to make a quick statement of thanks to everyone
1:18.0	who attended Sigma Nutrition Radio Live this past weekend in Dublin, Ireland.
1:23.8	The day was super success, ran really well. The special guests I had on the day were
1:31.1	absolutely phenomenal. We had some really deep discussions and getting their insights and
1:36.8	experiences on quite a diverse range of topics from Dr. Nicola guest discussing the research
1:43.7	around nutrition interventions for pre-diabetes and
1:48.0	type 2 diabetes from prevention to management and then all the way to treatment and looking at remission.
1:54.8	And I think everyone was going to blown away by just her breadth of understanding of the literature in that area.
2:02.2	We went on to Dr. James Morton, who gave some really interesting insights of his experiences
2:08.2	working in elite sport with the Ripple Football Club, with Team Sky, some of the nutrition
2:13.7	interventions they tried to put in place, and then some of the stuff that doesn't get
2:18.0	talked about as much, I think in mainstream discussions around that of some of the relationship
2:24.2	building with the athletes and how that's critical for a performance nutritionist. In the afternoon
2:30.5	sessions, I was talking to Dr. Kirstie Elliott-Sale. We got into all sorts of stuff around low energy availability in athletes,
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