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SUMMARY:Dairy Products Intake\, Diabetes and Obesity – Is There A Link? 
 - Eirini Trichia – PhD Candidate\, Nutritional Epidemiology\, Wolfson Co
 llege\, University of Cambridge  
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CONTACT:Wolfson College Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Dietary guidelines focus extensively on reducing saturated fat
  consumption despite the inconclusive evidence for some foods which contai
 n saturated fat\, such as dairy products. Conversely\, accumulating eviden
 ce suggests that fermented dairy products such as yoghurt are inversely as
 sociated with cardio-metabolic disease\, although relevant mechanisms have
  not been established and issues of measurement errors in self-reported me
 thods of dietary assessment remain concerning. Based on these gaps\, the a
 im of my research is to disentangle the relevant pathways through the inve
 stigation of the associations of dairy products with cardio-metabolic risk
  and adiposity. Preliminary results from the analysis of population-based 
 data in the Fenland study including 12\,435 adults show that higher consum
 ption of milk was associated with lower body fat\, while greater high-fat 
 cheese consumption was related with higher body fat. Additionally\, my on-
 going research will use metabolomics data to derive potential objective bi
 omarkers for the assessment of dairy products intake\, and the use of gene
 tic data will also help to elucidate potential pathways related to dairy c
 onsumption and to investigate causality of associations with disease endpo
 ints using Mendelian randomisation approaches. Combining traditional nutri
 tional epidemiology approaches with modern tools such as metabolomics and 
 genomics will contribute to formulate optimal dietary guidelines.\n
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College Cambridge
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