Do low fat foods make you fat?

Wednesday 19 August
6.30pm - 7.30pm

Mutual Community Lecture Theatre
Basil Hetzel Building
City East campus

Is the low fat food market one of the drivers of the obesity epidemic?

Do you have to follow a low fat diet in order to lose weight? The answer might surprise you as you discover the true value of those supposedly low fat foods. Some food items marked as "healthy" such as low fat yoghurts often have more energy than unsweetened full fat versions. This begs the question, is the low fat food market one of the drivers of the obesity epidemic?

The key to a healthy lifestyle and the solution to the obesity epidemic could well lie with your great grandparents. Come along to find out why.

Spend an hour with Kerin O'Dea as she questions the biggest issues involving food and healthy lifestyle.

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Body of Knowledge.
Division of Health Sciences

Professor Kerin O'Dea

Professor O'Dea took up the position as Director of the Sansom Institute for Health Research in early 2009. Prior to joining UniSA she held a number of senior academic and research leadership positions, including Director of the Menzies Institute of Health Research in Darwin. She has also been regularly called upon to advise government bodies on health and medical research, Indigenous health, nutrition and diabetes. Her current research examines diet and lifestyle in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases (obesity, type two diabetes and cardiovascular diseases), with a focus on clarifying the causal pathways and identifying critical intervention points.