Should we be avoiding fat or sugar? Why is dietary advice so confusing?
Monday 5th June 2017
Time: 7pm
Venue: Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street
Speaker: Christine Edwards
People often complain that nutrition experts are always changing their mind on what people should eat or avoid. The latest strategy is to get people to eat less sugar, with a tax on sugary drinks looming in the near future. This has resulted recently in the re-formulation of many favourite (but “less healthy”) foods and drinks. This talk will explore how dietary advice policy is developed and the evidence it is based on. The concept of what makes a diet healthy will be explored.
Christine Edwards is Professor of Nutritional Physiology in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing at the University of Glasgow. She is a registered nutritionist (Association for Nutrition). Prof Edward's work encompasses studies of the gut microflora, colonisation of the infant gut, metabolic and bioavailability of phenolic antioxidant and the impact of dietary carbohydrate on metabolism. She has coordinated two major EU projects MEDIGUT and INFABIO.