Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy.

In this engaging conversation, Lewis Wallis shares hisjourney balancing a full-time role in the nutrition industry with pursuing a PhD.

We get unique insights from both his research role andregulatory role covering a broad range of topics including:

· What is a digital food environment?

· How do we define these environments in a way that can enable healthier choices?

· How do these multiple environments make up anecosystem?

· What are the current nutrient profiling models?  How do they compare?

· What is a “meta-score”?

· Should we be thinking more deeply about what is included in these models?

· With multiple nutrient profiling models, what is the policy perspective?

· How is the regulatory world going to address UPF’s?

Listen in to hear the answers to the big questions, and so much more!

Resources and references mentioned included below:

WHO:

WHO Factsheet 

Sabrina Granheim’s work:

The digital food environment

Mapping the digital food environment

Rebecca Bennett’s work:

The potential influence of the digital food retail environment on health

Josh Erndt-Marino’s work:

Meta-score

ATNI: 

Sector alignment on the use of Nutrient Profile Models

Nesta: 

Targeting the health of the nation

Lewis Wallis LinkedIn post:

Mobile Food Profiling Models 

Lewis Wallis LinkedIn post:

Divergence Case Study 

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