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#351: Prof. Glenn Gibson - Human Gut Bacteriology, Prebiotics & Probiotics Sep 08, 2020

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Glenn Gibson is Professor of Food Microbiology at University of Reading. He has been researching bacteria in the gut for over 30 years. Together with his colleague Marcel B. Roberfroid, both researchers coined the term prebiotics in their 1995 paper.

He has published over 450 research papers and 8 books. He currently researches acute and chronic gut disease, with specific projects on probiotics and prebiotics, gas production, gut microbiota development, gastroenteritis, obsesity and colonic homeostasis.

Show Notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode351

#350: Peter Olusoga, PhD & Hugh Gilmore – Coaching Burnout: The Research & Applied Psychology Sep 02, 2020

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Dr Peter Olusoga is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. His current research focuses on stress, burnout and wellbeing in sports, with a particular interest in high-performance environments and elite coaching. Peter is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Hugh Gilmore is an accredited sport psychologist with experience working in elite sport in the UK. Hugh has worked with elite athletes across a number of sports, including with the British Weightlifting team in the lead-up to the Olympic Games.

Hugh has a MSc. in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology. And is accredited by The Irish Institute of Sport and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES).

Peter and Hugh are the hosts of the new sport psychology podcast Eighty Percent Mental.

Show Notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode350

#349: Prof. Naomi Allen – How the UK Biobank is Powering Chronic Disease Research Aug 26, 2020

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Professor Naomi Allen was appointed Chief Scientist for UK Biobank in 2019, having joined UK Biobank in November 2011 as Senior Epidemiologist. She is Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, with a keen research interest in cancer epidemiology.

At UK Biobank she is responsible for following-up participants both through linkage with routine health-related datasets, and through web-based questionnaires. She is also involved in developing the scientific strategy for future enhancements for the study.

Her research interest is largely in the role of diet, obesity and circulating biomarkers in cancer development.

Show Notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode349

#348: Omega-3 Supplementation & Heart Disease Aug 19, 2020

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Today's Topic in Focus: Omega-3 Supplementation & Heart Disease [01:52]

"I Have a Question!" [66:30]: UK government obesity plan.

Quack Asylum [87:00]: Is a gram of PUFA in chicken worse than 250g of sugar from honey? Carnivore cannibalism!

Random Recommendations [94:20]

SHOW NOTES: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode348/

#347: Alex Thomas - Advancing the Sports Nutritionist Profession Aug 12, 2020

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Alex Thomas is the founder of Sports Nutrition Association (SNA), which is global association that contains Sports Nutrition Australia, Sports Nutrition NewZealand, Sports Nutrition Asia, and Sports Nutrition USA.

Alex is an experienced Clinical Accredited Sports Nutritionist. He is the Australasian Ambassador of the ISSN (International Society of Sports Nutrition). He is co-creator of the Metabolic Health Screen (A health risk and contraindication identification and triage system – now imbedded in the MyPocketcoach platform).

His passion is in providing legitimate education, qualifications and insurance pathways to ensure the successful and sustainable career pathways for the profession of Sports Nutritionists. Alex believes we now have a unique opportunity to establish a significant meaningful impact and pride in what it is to hold the title of 'Accredited Sports Nutritionist' within the industry.

Show notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode347

#346: Kathryn Bradbury, PhD – Diet & Colorectal Cancer Risk Aug 04, 2020

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Dr. Kathryn Bradbury, PhD is a researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research has focused on examining the role of diet in the development of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Bradbury spent 5 years in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. There, she worked as a nutritional epidemiologist on large cohort studies, including the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), and the UK Biobank.

She also has expertise in traditional and web-based dietary assessment methods, nutritional epidmiology (including prospective analyses of large cohort studies), biomarkers of nutritional status (including folate), blood lipids, the role of diet in the development of gastrointestinal cancers, and vegetarian nutrition.

Show Notes: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode346

#345: Rebecca Leech, PhD – Impact of Meal Patterning on Diet Quality & Health Jul 29, 2020

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Dr. Rebecca Leech is a Registered Nutritionist and Nutritional Epidemiologist, based at Deakin's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition.

Rebecca has a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, and in 2018, was awarded an Alfred Deakin Medal for her doctoral thesis, which examined adults' eating patterns and their associations with diet quality and obesity.

Her postdoctoral research, extends on this, and applies novel analytic approaches to understand determinants of food intake at eating occasions and the role of eating patterns in cardiometabolic health in adults.

Dr. Leech is funded by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship and received category 1 funding from the National Heart Foundation (NHF) Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2019.

Show notes: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode345/

#344: Prof. Martin Caraher – Food Poverty & Food Aid Provision Jul 22, 2020

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Prof. Martin Caraher is Emeritus Professor of food and health policy at Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London. He has worked for and acted as a consultant to the UK Department of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation.

He was a member of the original London Food Board which developed the food strategy for London. He is a member of the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) scientific committee. He also sits on the Safefood Irl scientific committee.

Show Notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode344

#343: Understanding Causality in Nutrition Science Jul 16, 2020

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Danny & Alan discuss how to understand causality in nutrition research. The episodes includes: inferring causality vs demonstrating causality, the hierarchy of evidence vs. standards of proof, the erroneous application of the biomedical model to nutrition, RCTs vs. epidemiology, what the "highest quality evidence available" is, and how nutritional epidemiology can infer causality.

Episode also includes a listener question, random recommendations and the Quack Asylum!

Show notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode343

#342: Are Vegan Diets Superior for Health? Jul 07, 2020

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In this episode Alan and Danny discuss the nutritional science research on vegan diets and human health. Some of the concepts covered include: defining "plant-based" diets, examination of various intervention trials comparing diets, veganism across the lifestage, benefits of a vegan diet, nutrient considerations and lots more. Show Notes: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode342

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