EPISODE 28: SARAH HANCOCK PDH

Enjoy this interview I recorded with Sarah for the 2021 Low Carb Lifestyle Long Weekend Summit.

Sarah has recently completed her PhD in public health nutrition at AUT, entitled: "Healthy mouth, healthy body: towards integrated dietary approaches".

Several papers for publication were generated from this body of work. She lives in Taupo, where she is an advocate for dietary lifestyles incorporating low-carbohydrate healthy fat eating approaches for the prevention of chronic disease.

She is currently pursuing research opportunities in community-based child health research. This thesis has contributed to the body of knowledge in nutrition and dental caries. Disease burdens in New Zealand children, and separate dietary factors associated with harm, and benefit for oral and general health were investigated.

A high and frequent intake of refined, processed carbohydrates is implicated in poor oral and general health through the life course. There is a paucity of interventions that addressed the simultaneous prevention of both dental caries and poor general health using dietary behaviour change.

In addition, preventive efforts are undermined by government-endorsed advice to reduce consumption of foods associated with health benefits, and the simultaneous endorsement of foods associated with harm.

Novel strategies were designed to compare the health and nutrition knowledge of children, parents, and health professionals for oral and general health. Nutrition knowledge was aligned with recommendations in government-endorsed health promotion initiatives.

Oral hygiene practices were regarded as more important than dietary factors for caries prevention. Barriers experienced by children and adults for healthy eating included the ubiquity of ultra-processed food products.

Strategies that address the public health challenge of chronic disease through the life course should encompass evidence regarding dietary factors, knowledge, barriers, and consideration of the food environments within communities.

Here are two papers Sarah has had published associated with the thesis; several more are in submission:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32027640/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33156952/

Email: sarah.hancock@aut.ac.nz

Twitter handle: @sjhancocknz

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