Unpacking Food Myths - A Masterclass in Nutrition Epidemiology
Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction
Danielle Belardo
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
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Summary
Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, obesity and nutritional epidemiologist Dr. Deirdre Tobias, for a masterclass on nutrition epidemiology and its impact on public health. Diedre opens up her nutrition epidemiology toolbox to explain the research and data supporting healthy dietary patterns and what nutrition tips you can implement in your own life. Danielle and Deirdre also bust the myth that whole grains and fruit are evil, so forget what you’ve read on social media! Whether or not you're in the medical field or just a hobbyist trying to learn to interpret science in a more robust way, this is the episode for you.
Danielle and Deirdre discuss:
- The basics of nutritional epidemiology and role of a nutritional epidemiologist
- General healthy dietary patterns and the problems with a western diet
- The reasons whole grains and fruits have been demonized
- The table 1 method and how it can help you interpret scientific data
Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an obesity and nutritional epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tobias was appointed as the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019. Her research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle for obesity and its major chronic diseases, including gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She is assistant professor and co-Instructor for Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
For more information on the research Deirdre does at Harvard, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/deirdre-tobias
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.4 | Is it really healthy or is it just a marketing ploy? And anything that doesn't say whole |
| 0:13.6 | grain and might say multi-grain or seven-grain, that's unlikely to be actual whole-grain. |
| 0:19.6 | Actually, most, I would say, commercially produced |
| 0:23.1 | whole grain bread starts with the refined flour and just adds that kind of byproduct back in at the end. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to Wellness, Fact versus Fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Ballardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition science. But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness vads take over social media. |
| 0:52.4 | It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians |
| 0:56.3 | and scientists to help us determine what is fact versus fiction when it comes to your health. |
| 1:01.9 | It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to wellness fact versus fiction. And today we have the one and the only expert in nutrition epi, Dr. Deirdre Tobias. She is a nutrition and obesity epidemiologist at the Brigham |
| 1:30.8 | and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate from |
| 1:35.8 | Harvard, T.H. Chan, School, Public Health, and an MA in epidemiology and nutrition. Her research |
| 1:41.9 | focuses on identifying diet and lifestyle factors for prevention |
| 1:46.0 | of obesity and its major chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes. Dr. Tobias serves as the |
| 1:51.8 | PI of NIH-funded research, including a sugary beverage substitution weight loss trial. |
| 1:57.6 | She is passionate about improving and innovative research methods for nutritional |
| 2:02.0 | epidemiology. She's assistant professor at the Harvard Teach Chan School of Public Health, |
| 2:07.4 | an instructor of nutritional epidemiology with former department chair, Dr. Walter Willett, |
| 2:13.5 | and serves as the academic editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. And if that's not enough, she's also my friend. She is so brilliant and smart. And I'm so excited to have her on the podcast to teach all of us today. Hi, Dee Dee. How are you? Good. How are you? Well, thank you so much for joining us. I'm so excited for my audience to get to learn from you. |
| 2:35.6 | And I'm excited for myself personally to also get to learn from you. |
| 2:39.0 | And thank you for joining us. |
| 2:40.6 | So why don't we start out with you just telling everyone about what is nutritional epidemiology? |
| 2:46.2 | And what do you do? |
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