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How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, we are going to be discussing 10 nutritious health

promoting, quote unquote, superfoods that I recommend eating more of. And the reason that I use

the quotations around the term superfoods is because that term has largely been taken over by

marketers and often is used to promote exotic, very high-priced products that often aren't even very nutritious

and don't have much data backing up their health benefits.

Today, what we're going to talk about are 10 everyday foods that you can find in the grocery store

that you can incorporate into your diet

on a regular basis that have a consistent body of research backing up their potential health

benefits when you include them into your diet regularly. So I'm looking forward to discussing

some of these different nutritious foods in this episode. I think it's going to be extremely

helpful for a lot of you. Before we get into the episode, I want to quickly discuss the last episode. So the last episode

was on cancer nutrition. We talked about whether or not cancer rates are increasing. I brought

my friend Dr. Crystal Zuniga on the podcast. She's a professor at the University of Texas. She's a specialist in

cancer nutrition. And I had a few comments of people who said that they felt like I didn't give

her enough time to chat. I want to acknowledge that. I really, like I apologize. I reached out to

her. I listened to the episode after I got those comments because I was surprised. I mean, I don't really

think about these things sometimes as I'm recording. And I agree. I think that I definitely

spoke too much during that episode, didn't give her enough time to chat. And there's a few reasons

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