The Food Compass: A Guide to Healthy Food Choices

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There's no single silver bullet to fix the food system, but we can do this. We created the food system we have now from farming all the way to food manufacturing very consciously with the goals of addressing vitamin deficiencies and calories over just 50 years. So you have to really have a suite of solutions to take care of this. And it involves health care and food is medicine. It involves the power of regulation and food regulation. It involves schools and federal nutrition programs. It involves science and advancing science. The idea that foods should have more healthy fat by these systems has itself as a negative point.

Episode #246. Have you ever considered the way our current food system was shaped? Or the way it continues to impact modern dietary guidelines? This episode is for you. In this conversation with distinguished researcher Professor Dariush Mozaffarian, we analyse the past 120 years of nutrition science and assess how this research continues to impact the modern diet.

We cover:

Introduction (00:00)
A Journey Through Nutrition Science History (03:49)
The Food Industry's Contributions to Improving Vitamin and Calorie Deficiency and What Went Wrong (16:05)
The Evolution of Dietary Guidelines (26:59)
Are Food Rating Systems Accurate? (37:48)
Is the Role of Saturated Fat in Nutrition Neutral? (44:22)
Understanding the Algorithm Behind Tufts' Food Compass (46:57)
Industry Funding and Scientific Research (52:03)
Validating the Food Compass Scoring System (57:04)
Are Breakfast Cereals Healthier? (01:04:45)
The Food Compass System: A Work in Progress (01:08:04)
Exploring the Uses of the Food Compass and the Possibility of Improving Its Functionality (01:10:33)
Takeaways (01:29:19)
Outro (01:34:50)

If you found this conversation informative, you can learn more about Dr Mozaffarian here, and read more of his work here. If you have any additional questions you would like answered in future, make sure to leave a comment on YouTube.

Discover more insights and supporting resources in the full show notes.

Enjoy, friends.

Simon

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