🎙️ 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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