3285: How You Can Evaluate Food Trends to Make Better Nutrition Choices by Lea Genders on Smarter Eating Decisions

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🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3285: Lea Genders invites us to look critically at popular food trends, from demonizing sugar to embracing high-protein or low-carb diets, not to blindly follow them, but to thoughtfully extract what actually works for our individual lifestyles. Her balanced perspective helps listeners navigate the shifting landscape of nutrition with clarity, sustainability, and self-awareness. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.leagendersfitness.com/news/evaluate-food-trends-to-make-the-best-nutrition-choices Quotes to ponder: "Trends aren't bad in themselves, positive and helpful ideas can be trendy." "It's ok to focus on the pleasure of food, but work to marry taste with nutrition." "Try not to look at foods as good or bad, clean or dirty, but on a continuum and work to make the best choices that are available to you in the situation without judgment." Episode references: Christopher R. Mohr, Ph.D., R.D.: https://mohrresults.com/ IDEA World Fitness Convention: https://www.ideafit.com/fitness-conferences/idea-world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.5	This is Optimal Health Daily, how you can evaluate food trends to make better nutrition choices by Leagenders of Leagenders Fitness.com, and I'm Dr. Neal, your very own personal narrator.
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1:11.9	How you can evaluate food trends to make better nutrition choices by Leagenders
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1:18.9	Just like bell bottoms of the 70s, big hair of the 80s and flannel shirts of the 90s, food
1:25.7	choices can be trendy too.
1:29.1	Like a wave across time,
1:35.1	different eating habits have ebbed and flowed with popular culture. The ketogenic diet is popular today,
1:42.0	but it's been used since 1930 to treat epilepsy in children. What was once old is new and trendy again.
1:46.4	If you've ever inhaled a box of snack wells, low-carb cookies in the name of health, you've been a victim of food trends. It wasn't trendy at the time to avoid carbs, but not
1:52.1	yet trendy to avoid processed foods, so many people, including me in the 90s, mistakenly believed
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