Jan 15, 2021
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Nina Teicholz is the executive director of the Nutrition Coalition, an investigative science journalist, author of the international bestselling book, The Big Fat Surprise, and she has testified before the Canadian Senate as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture with regard to the need to reform dietary guidelines based on sound science. She attended Yale and Stanford where she studied biology and majored in American Studies, received her Masters degree from Oxford, and served as associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
The topics of discussion in this episode include how Nina came to be interested in investigating and writing in the field of nutrition, the purpose and scope of different types of scientific studies, which types of studies, largely speaking, are generating the data that is informing our dietary guidelines, the difference between correlation and causation, conflicts of interest and demonstrable bias amongst members of committees and subcommittees whose purpose is to do nutritional research or make guidelines, various other concerns that Nina has with regard to how our nutritional guidelines are formed, how the African American and other minority communities could be particularly effected in a negative way by following the guidelines, and the different ways that diet vs pills work in your body to combat health problems.
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