095: The Food Industry Hates You Ft. Dr Sarah Zaldivar
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Nate Palmer
4.9 • 300 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Find optimal health through a carnivore diet, mindset shifts, exercise, and dance. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Zaldivar stresses why there's a lot of confusion about what is good nutrition and how this has resulted in a heavy toll on our health. She also digs into the harmful effects of the food industry and how they affect the health policies are that created. Let's dig into it!
Sarah Zaldivar has a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition from the University of Miami. She had previously completed her Bachelors's and Masters's degrees in Nutrition and Dietitics in addition to a hospital internship before passing the board examination to become a licensed dietitian. After 9 years in Miami, she recently relocated to Ocala, Florida where she continues to teach nutrition courses online at Miami Dade College. She is a certified personal trainer and a certified Exercise Physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine, for whom she taught workshops training students to sit for the ACSM's personal training certification.
Key Highlights:
[00:01 - 07:45] Opening Segment
• Dr. Sarah shares her background and story
- A Ph.D. in exercise physiology and nutrition from the US university of Miami
- Her exploratory journey to find answers
• Why Dr. Sarah became disillusioned with traditional nutrition education
[07:46 - 14:57] The Cost of Becoming a Research Scientist
• The human cost of the agricultural revolution
• The difficulty in obtaining funding for research has led to a lack of understanding about what is good nutrition
• What has led to confusion about what is healthy and why people keep eating unhealthy foods
[14:58 - 22:10] Food Companies Hiring Dieticians to Influence Research
• Food addiction is a real issue and can have a significant impact on every aspect of a person's life
• Many dieticians are "self-described foodies" and do not care about their fitness or health
• Dr. Sarah's outlook The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND)
[22:11 - 29:23] The Food Industry Hates
• How the food and pharmaceutical industries affect how health policies are created
• How the "natural immunity" movement has been censored by Instagram
- How this affects people's understanding of nutrition and health
[29:24 - 34:54] Closing Segment
• Nate and Dr. Sarah share Harvey Kellog's story
Want to connect with Dr. Sarah? Follow her on Instagram & YouTube.
Key Quotes:
"Every single area of your life is so affected by the foods that you're eating, whether or not you have food addiction issue going on." - Dr. Sarah Zaldivar
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| 0:00.0 | I would rather be skinned alive than work for a food company and figure out how can I create a recipe that is even more addictive. |
| 0:11.0 | So I can get people to get addicted to such a unhealthy drug that ruins every every part of your life, you know, because what your health and your body translates into your relationships into your energy and your productivity and your careers. |
| 0:28.0 | Every single area of your life is so affected by the foods that you're eating, whether or not you have food addiction issue going on. |
| 0:36.0 | Low carb hustle. |
| 0:39.0 | You are listening to the low carb hustle podcast where we help you burn fat and put some muscle behind that low carb hustle. |
| 0:46.0 | Here's your host Nate Palmer. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey, welcome back to another episode of the low carb hustle. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm so excited today's episode is going to be super fun. |
| 0:55.0 | Today, I'm the honor of speaking with Dr Sarah Zaldevart and she is a PhD in exercise physiology and nutrition from the University of Miami. |
| 1:03.0 | So she's really smart. She's been doing this a long time. |
| 1:06.0 | She previously completed her bachelor's, master's degrees in nutrition and dietetics and done an actual hospital internship. |
| 1:12.0 | But during this time, she realized that when she was following all the advice that they were giving her during in school, she was not getting the results she wanted in her own life and her own wellness. |
| 1:22.0 | So she kind of went on this exploratory journey, changed everything and now is kind of is going to come to throw some punches at the food industry. |
| 1:29.0 | So Dr Sarah, super excited you're here. |
| 1:31.0 | Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you reached out and very excited. |
| 1:35.0 | Can you give us just a quick like the 30 60 second background on like who you are, where you've come from. |
| 1:40.0 | What is some important to you? |
| 1:42.0 | So currently I'm an nutrition professor at Miami-Date College teaching nutrition classes, but mainly I would consider myself more of a content creator. |
| 1:51.0 | That's where I spend the vast majority of my time creating content, especially for YouTube, but then also a little bit of Instagram. |
| 1:58.0 | And I realized very early on, not that early shown, I guess, but I realized is that the mainstream advice that I was given when I was being taught nutrition as I was becoming a dietician does not work because I was actually applying it. |
| 2:14.0 | I was in just, you know, like memorizing and passing exams. |
| 2:18.0 | I wanted to apply those things on myself, and it would not work. And I struggled with acne a lot. |
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