In this episode, we talk with Catharina Candussi, a PhD student in Nutritional Sciences, about her research on plant-based diets and their impact on health. With 5% of Europeans identifying as vegetarian and 3% as vegan, this trend is growing for reasons ranging from ethics to health benefits.

Catharina explores how plant-based diets can reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. She also discusses the COPLANT (COhort on PLANT-based diets) study, the largest study on plant-based nutrition in the German-speaking world to date, in which the University of Vienna is one of the 9 project partners. Additionally, Catharina shared with us how she is deals with stress during her PhD.

This episode was written by Catharina Candussi (PhD student in Nutritional Sciences), hosted by Agnes Draxler (Alumna and early-postdoc research at the Department of Nutritional Sciences) and Shara Natalia Sosa Cabrera (PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences), recorded and edited by Simon Schenk-Mair, and produced by Andrea Cabrera (PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences).

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