Can A Food Product Scoring System Improve Our Diet And Eliminate Nutrition Confusion? with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

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Food Compass, a new food rating system aimed to help determine the
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Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Special Advisor to the Provost, Dean
for Policy, and Jean Mayer Professor at the Tufts Friedman School
of Nutrition Science and Policy; and Professor of Medicine at Tufts
School of Medicine. His work aims to create the science and
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(audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Challenges and
limitations of nutrition research (5:36 / 3:40) Food rating systems
(14:02 / 11:50)  The Food Compass rating system (26:14 /
19:43)  Development and scoring domains of the Food Compass
(30:34 / 25:18)  Comparing Food Compass to other scoring
systems (39:44 / 34:27)  Research on how following Food
Compass would affect health (41:57 / 36:49) Distinguishing a
processed vs ultra-processed food (50:25 / 43:26)  Limitations
of and areas of controversy with Food Compass (1:00:46 / 55:46) How
Food Compass scores cholesterol (1:07:11 / 1:01:54)  Mentioned
in this episode 2022 Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Report