How's it going everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. I'm your host Max

Lugovira Filmmaker, health and science journalist in the author of The New York Times best-selling

book Genius Foods. In this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to Dr.

Marion Nestle. Marion Nestle is a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health

at New York University. And she's also the author of The New Book on Savory Truth, how

food companies skew the science of what we eat.

Dr. Nestle is a career critic of the food system, and over the course of the next hour, you're

going to discover the key nutrition-related problems burdening society as well as what

Dr. Nestle sees as being the chief causes of them. Where food marketers mislead consumers

and how to protect yourself and your family. The food that I think is a health food that

Dr. Nestle disagrees with me on. The dangers of industry-funded research. Why nutritionists

don't like to use the phrase junk food? Dr. Nestle's take on the eternal low-carb, low-fat

battle. Meet and whether or not organic food is really that much better for us. It is

so critically important to you guys to be willing and able to challenge your own beliefs.

Dr. Nestle provides so much food for thought over the course of the next hour that you're

likely going to want to listen to this episode twice.

Before we really get into it, I want to talk to you guys a little bit about the virtues

of coffee. I'm a big fan of coffee, and I just had a cup before recording the intro

to this podcast. It makes me feel great, and it is full of dietary polyphenols. Dr. Nestle

would argue that it's really about the dietary pattern as a whole, and that individual foods

aren't able to sway your health in one direction or another. But observational evidence

suggests that people who drink coffee tend to have reduced risk for neurodegenerative

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