Reframing Nutrition in Obesity Management with Dr. Flavio Vieira
Scale Up Your Practice by Obesity CanadaShow Notes
🎙️ 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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