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Eating for cardiometabolic health | Andrea Glenn, PhD, RD


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Episode #240. There’s a lot of noise about cardiometabolic health: claims that certain diets will work miracles, and hype that specific foods must be avoided at all costs. Research dietitian Dr Andrea Glenn joins me today to get to the core of which dietary patterns will actually improve your cardiometabolic health outcomes.


We discuss:

  • Intro (00:00)
  • Andrea Glenn on dietary patterns (07:31)
  • Which country has the best dietary guidelines today? (11:35)
  • What is cardiometabolic health? (13:15)
  • Similarities and differences between the DASH, Nordic, Mediterranean, and Portfolio Diets (16:31)
  • Can the Portfolio diet lower your risk of having a heart attack or stroke? (21:29)
  • The compositions of plant predominant diets and the demonization of carbohydrates (37:05)
  • Are DASH, Nordic, Mediterranean, and Portfolio diets good for preventing and managing diabetes? (44:32)
  • The worst and the best sources of fat (50:27)
  • Is the pro-metabolic diet legitimate? (54:19)
  • Is canola oil healthy? And is it better than olive oil? (01:03:39)
  • The effects of protein according to studies (1:11:05)
  • What are plant sterols? (1:17:20)
  • Plant predominant versus plant exclusive (1:22:36)

  • To stay in the loop with Dr Andrea Glenn, you can connect with her on Twitter. Learn more about Dr Glenn and read her research papers here.

    Discover more insights and dozens of supporting studies in the full show notes.

    Enjoy, friends.

    Simon


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