Hi, this is Monica Reinagle. Thanks for tuning in today. I'm celebrating a milestone.

This is the 350th episode of the Nutrition Diva podcast and I decided to open the floor up to you

the readers and the listeners who have made the last seven years possible.

Thanks to all of you who called in and emailed some of your questions were better suited to full length episodes.

So stay tuned for those in coming weeks. And our first question this week is from Mark. He says, how do you come up with a new topic every week?

I would have thought that after 350 episodes you would have run out of things to talk about by now.

And you know, when I first started recording the Nutrition Diva podcast back in 2008,

I was a little concerned about that myself, but I needn't have worried.

For starters, nutrition is a constantly evolving field with new research and information coming

out every week.

Not that we need to overhaul our diets in response to every little

study that makes the news. One of the things that I try to do in the podcast is to put all of those

headlines that get churned up by the daily news cycle into perspective

so that we're not getting buffeted around by every little breeze that wafts

through the medical journals. All that research is valuable, but very little of it actually merits a change in our daily

behavior.

I get the vast majority of my topics, however, from readers who send in a never-ending stream of interesting questions and challenges.

Sometimes it's a matter of sorting through conflicting claims or fact-checking dubious assertions.

A lot of times it's just helping people focus on the things that are going

to make the biggest difference and not get sidetracked by the little stuff. The subtitle of my book, Secrets for a Healthy Diet, is What to Eat, what to avoid, and what to stop worrying about.

And I find that that third category, what to stop worrying about, is actually the one I most

often talk about. The next question is from Gina of Nashville, Tennessee.

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