Consumption of beef and red meat: Cognitive outcomes across the lifespan
There’s a growing body of evidence exploring the role of beef in cognition and brain health. Beef offers important nutrients for brain function like vitamins B12 and B6, protein, zinc, selenium, iron and choline. Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a report highlighting the role of animal foods, like meat, eggs and milk, in contributing important nutrients for health outcomes across life stages, including cognition. Join Dr Stephen Fleming as he assesses and visually illustrates the scientific evidence on beef consumption and cognition. This webinar highlights the heterogeneity of the research and explores why nutritional neuroscience is in its early stages in identifying the role that beef and red meat play in cognitive development.
What will I gain from this webinar?
- Learn how to critically assess the quality of studies on dietary patterns on cognition and understand why the tool used to measure cognition is of supreme importance, no matter what the nutritional question is
- Understand the reliability of food frequency questionnaires and food recalls
- Learn how to use interactive visualisation of reviews to gain a deeper understanding.
Endorsement No EN175.81
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 2 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Dietary consumption of beef and red meat: a scoping review and evidence map on cognitive outcomes across the lifespan2
Instructor
Dr Stephen Fleming completed a PhD (2019) in Neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied the role of early-life nutrition in cognitive development. He is the co-founder and CEO of Traverse Science, a company dedicated to evidence synthesis in the food and beverage industry.
His mission is to create tools, teams, and frameworks that enable others to cut through misinformation and data overload to understand the science. He helps researchers at global nutrition organisations take a visual and evidence-based approach to scientific substantiation.
