Hello, I'm Monica Reinable, and you're listening to episode number 402 of the Nutrition

Diva podcast.

Welcome. We're talking about Ayur Vedic medicine and

nutrition today, but I also have a few other little goodies for you such as the

answer to a food safety question set in by Ralph.

That'll be at the end of the podcast.

And a great example of a nutrition trade-off

sent in by Cheryl, and I thought we'd start with that.

As you may remember, a few weeks ago, I had... Cheryl and I thought we'd start with that.

As you may remember, a few weeks ago, I had an episode on nutrition tradeoffs.

These are situations where you're choosing between two options that each seem to have both positives and negatives.

And that was episode number 399.

Well since then we've had sort of a running series on this topic, both here on the podcast and on my blog at

nutrition over easy.com and it's been a fun way to exercise our nutrition skills.

So this week's example as as I said, was sent in by Cheryl and it's on the

trade-off between whole grains and refined grains. On the one hand, whole grains like whole wheat bread and brown rice have more fiber,

and that means they have a more modest impact on your blood sugar.

On the other hand, sometimes you just want to enjoy some white bread or white rice.

So listen to how Cheryl has negotiated this.

She writes, I eat about five servings of grain a week, but when I do it's nearly always white.

For example, I don't buy bread very often, but when I do it's fresh white bread from a bakery. We eat white rice, but just a couple of times a week, and in

serving sizes of just half a cup. When we eat pasta, we eat white pasta, but

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