Part 1 - Is meat healthy? Separating evidence from opinion       (17 minutes)

Susan Jebb, public health nutrition scientist, discusses what are the nutritional guidelines around eating meat, is grass-fed beef better for you, and why is it so difficult to study people’s diets and health in the first place.

Speaker

Susan Jebb is a professor of population and diet health at the University of Oxford. She has a particular interest in how we can support healthier and more sustainable diets to improve the health of people and the planet. She co-leads the Health Behaviours team, whose research spans a range of research methods including systematic reviews, observational epidemiology, experimental studies, qualitative research and health economics, but with an emphasis on intervention development and testing in feasibility or large scale trials. .

Section resources

Feed: Feeding the future study (Oxford, 2023)

Reduction in UK red and processed meat intake, but more needed to meet our climate targets (Oxford, 2021)