Association between adherence to plant-based dietary patterns and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

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Vasanti Malik, Sarah Jarvis

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Vasanti Malik, MSc, ScD - University of Toronto
Sarah Jarvis, MSc, PhD (c) - University of Toronto

2021 Award for Nutrition Translation recipients
"Association between adherence to plant-based dietary patterns and obesity risk: a systematic review of prospective cohort studies"
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2022-0059

Consistent evidence demonstrates a high-quality plant-based diet as an effective intervention for weight management, although it may be particularly challenging to adopt in its entirety for habitual meat consumers or individuals with especially poor-quality diets. Plant-based diets are increasingly studied using indices such as the overall plant-based diet index (PDI), healthful PDI, and unhealthful PDI, which offer more flexibility than a binary classification of vegetarianism and better facilitate translation into dietary recommendations. This webinar reviews recent evidence on the association between plant-based diet indices and obesity risk. We will discuss the characteristics of a plant-based diet that are most protective against obesity risk. The potential underlying pathways that distinguish the associations between a healthful plant-based diet from other dietary patterns will be explored. We also align the current research on plant-based diet patterns with effective practices to facilitate the translation of plant-based diet research into practical, evidence-based solutions to the obesity pandemic.

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate a healthful plant-based diet from other dietary patterns and distinguish associations of different plant-based diets with obesity and cardiometabolic risk
2. Support the use of dietary indices that differentiate healthful plant foods from less healthful plant foods to study plant-based dietary patterns as opposed to a general binary inclusion/exclusion of animal foods.
3. Formulate effective strategies to integrate findings into their practice and develop healthful plant-based diet knowledge translation plans across various sectors.

Moderator: Michael McBurney, PhD - University of Guelph

About the Speakers:

Vasanti Malik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention. Dr. Malik's research uses a combination of epidemiological methods, clinical trials and evidence synthesis to study dietary, social and lifestyle determinants of cardiometabolic diseases at different life stages and in local and global populations. More recent research interests of Dr. Malik include studying the intersection of diets and food systems on health and environmental sustainability. She leads an active research program at the University of Toronto and teaches an undergraduate course on international and community nutrition. The ultimate goal of Dr. Malik's work is to inform dietary recommendations and policy strategies to support human and planetary health.

Sarah Jarvis is a PhD student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Dr. Vasanti Malik, her graduate research investigates sustainable dietary patterns and cardiometabolic health outcomes. Her current PhD research integrates nutrition and environmental impacts in dietary patterns. She is developing a life cycle inventory of foods in Canada to model and analyse healthy and environmentally sustainable diets with health outcomes. She is also developing and evaluating a nutrition education program to improve the nutrition and environmental literacy and dietary behaviours of youth and explore the interacting factors contributing to dietary behaviours among adolescents. Sarah has received funding for her graduate research from the SMART Healthy Cities Training Platform, the Nora Martin Fellowship in Nutritional Sciences and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Original Source: "CNS Education Webinars" Thursday, October 13, 2022

Length: 1:00:45

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Last Updated: November 12, 2022