Reframing Nutrition in Obesity Management with Dr. Flavio Vieira

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Scale Up Your Practice by Obesity Canada

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Tune into Scale Up Your Practice, Obesity Canada’s podcast for healthcare professionals. Hosted by Dr. Roshan Abraham and Michelle McMillan, each episode dives into practical, evidence-informed conversations about obesity care—covering topics like weight stigma, patient-centered approaches, and the connection between obesity and other health conditions. You’ll hear expert perspectives, real-world experiences, and insights to help you provide better, more compassionate care. Listen now and scale up your practice. 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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Reframing Nutrition in Obesity Management with Dr. Flavio Vieira

Scale Up Your Practice by Obesity Canada

51 minutes 29 seconds

2 months ago

Reframing Nutrition in Obesity Management with Dr. Flavio Vieira

🎙️ This episode is sponsored. Obesity Canada received an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly Canada to produce this episode. 🎙️

Nutrition in obesity management is complex, deeply personal, and shaped by biology, culture, mental health, access, and lived experience.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Flavio Vieira, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, to explore what personalized, evidence-informed nutrition can really look like in practice. From tackling misconceptions to addressing malnutrition and advocating for multidisciplinary care, Dr. Vieira helps us rethink how nutrition fits into obesity care that’s compassionate, practical, and person-centred.

In this episode:

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition doesn’t work
How biology, metabolism, and lived experience shape dietary responses
The importance of integrating nutrition with other treatments (exercise, behavioural care, surgery, pharmacology)
Malnutrition and sarcopenic obesity: what they mean for people living with obesity
The role of advocacy in bridging research and real-world practice
Gaps in screening tools and why new approaches are needed
A vision for more accessible, multidisciplinary models of care

Additional resources:

Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline: https://utm.guru/ui2XW
Canadian Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline: https://utm.guru/ui2XX
Free course: A Deep Dive into Medical Nutrition Therapy and Physical Activity: https://utm.guru/ui2XY

Explore Dr. Vieira’s research:

Sarcopenic obesity diagnosis by different criteria mid-to long-term post-bariatric surgery: https://utm.guru/ui2XZ
Poor muscle quality: a hidden and detrimental health condition in obesity: https://utm.guru/ui2X0
Hidden malnutrition in obesity and knee osteoarthritis: Assessment, overlap with sarcopenic obesity and health outcomes: https://utm.guru/ui2X1

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