I am a professor at the Department of Nutrition at the Faculty of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a researcher at the Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health at USP (NUPENS/USP). Since 2023, I have held the position of vice-coordinator of NUPENS/USP. I am advisor of the Graduate Program in Nutrition in Public Health at USP and associate editor of Revista de Saúde Pública. Member of the Epidemiology Commission of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) and of the Department of Environment, Sustainability and Food Culture of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity (ABESO). Author of the book Applied Nutritional Epidemiology for Obesity, published by Edusp in 2024. In 2017, I was on maternity leave and, therefore, more distant from academic activities. I am very interested in studying the effects of ultra-processing of food on the living conditions and health of populations and I advocate a critical epidemiology, deeply committed to social responsibility. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Nova food classification system, which groups foods into categories according to the characteristics of industrial processing, caused a paradigm shift in nutrition science, proving to be relevant for understanding the epidemiology of diseases and the impacts of food systems worldwide. Despite the growing number of epidemiological studies that use this classification, a common limitati…
Introduction: The Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population recommend that natural or minimally processed foods form the basis of the diet, while ultra-processed foods should be avoided. A dietary pattern that adheres to these recommendations has been associated with a lower risk of several health issues, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, depression, and premature death in ad…
Introduction: The Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population (2014) has a golden rule "always prefer fresh and minimally processed foods and its culinary preparations to ultra-processed foods". The "Prevention of diseases with the Brazilian diet: the PREDIBRA randomized clinical trial" project, initiated in January 2024, aims to evaluate the effects of the increased adherence to thes…
The Nova screener is an easy-to-operate and low-cost instrument designed to assess food consumption according to the degree of food processing in adults. Through it, it is possible to generate two diet quality scores: the Nova ultra-processed foods score (Nova-UPF) and the Nova minimally processed whole plant foods score (Nova-WPF), which serve as promising indicators for use in the evalu…
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Introduction: The Nova classification that considers food processing was created in 2010. It has come to be used in epidemiological studies on the relationship between diet and chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, there is a common limitation in these studies which is the use of nonspecific food intake assessment instruments for Nova. This can lead to biases in the measureme…
The objective of this project is to evaluate the consumption of ultra-processed foods and its association with snacking patterns in a representative sample of the Brazilian population aged 10 years or older (n=34,003). This study is linked to the thematic project "Ultraprocessed Food Consumption, Nutrition Profile of the Diet and Obesity in Seven Countries" and we will use data on individ…
The prevalence of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases have been increasing progressively worldwide, with concomitant increases in the ultra-processed food consumption. Recent studies have suggested that the high consumption of ultra-processed foods renders nutritionally unbalanced diets and are associated with higher risks of obesity in all ages, hypertension in adults, met…
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The Food Guide for the Brazilian Population (FGBP) launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Health. FGBP is an official document that provides important recommendations for adequate and healthy eating, from a nutritional, social, cultural, environmental, and economic aspects. Despite its importance and relevance, there is no appropriate instrument to assess the adequacy of the Brazilian popula…
Introduction: Understanding the food consumption patterns of a population holds significant importance in public health promotion efforts worldwide. The NOVA classification system is an important tool widely used to categorize foods according to the extent and purpose of their industrial processing. Assessing the relationship between food patterns and social inequalities, accessibility, a…
This proposal consists of a research internship at the Harvard School of Public Health under the supervision of Professor Dariush Mozaffarian from the Department of Epidemiology. The objective of the research project is to evaluate the consumption of ready-to-eat food products in Brazil and its association with the nutritional status. The study comprises the analyses of data of 34.003 ind…
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