Dariush Mozaffarian

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My guest today is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

He is a cardiologist, he's a leading nutrition scientist over at Tufts University, and he's the author of the brand new book, Food is Medicine.

On this episode, we challenge some deeply entrenched ideas about nutrition, including whether we've oversimplified obesity, why the protein craze may have gone too far, and why he thinks ice cream might actually be healthier than bread.

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Now with all that out of the way, here's to the next 600.

Let's get into it with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

Dariush Mozaffarian, welcome to the show.

Take this other pill for your high cholesterol.

But what if this is the wrong treatment? If food is making us sick, could the right food be as powerful as medicine at healing us? One of the most influential voices in nutrition science, Dariush Mozaffarian, believes it should be.

As a leading cardiologist and professor of medicine at Tufts School of Medicine, he studies heart disease every day.

And today, he argues that much of what you've been told about your diet is incomplete, and in some cases, simply wrong.

Food Is Medicine: Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds, and Transforming Our Food System, it's out today.

Author, Author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a nutrition expert and cardiologist at Tufts University.

Doctor, so good to have you here.

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Food, exercise, all medicine can not only help with depression, but of course preventing many of these diseases.

Thank you so much, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

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[upbeat music] My guest on this episode of The Dose is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

He's the director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, where he's also a professor and practicing cardiologist at Tufts Medical Center.

Dr. Mozaffarian is a leading voice in the growing Food is Medicine movement.

And maybe half of all poor health in the country is directly derived from poor diet, and yet our healthcare system still ignores it.

That's Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

He's the head of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.

I was speaking to him on the sidelines of an event in Nantucket to promote his new book, titled, unsurprisingly, Food is Medicine.

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My guest today is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

He is a cardiologist and the Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition and Science at Tufts University.

We're talking about his upcoming book, Food is Medicine, Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds, and Transforming Our Food System.