#442: Are Vegetables Detrimental to Health?

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode Alan and Danny aim to address the idea that you shouldn’t eat vegetables, or that they aren’t beneficial. We will specifically look at a number of claims that relate to:

The claim that vegetables aren’t beneficial for health, or that there is no health benefit to high vegetable intake.
The claim that vegetables are actually detrimental to health, and their removal improves health.

This episode was orignally published to Sigma Nutrition Premium. If you wish to get more of these Quack Asylum episodes (and lots of other features, including detailed study notes) then subscribe to Sigma Nutrition Premium.

Click here to access show notes

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 442 of the podcast. And this episode
0:09.4	is actually a quack asylum episode that we released to Sigma Nutrition premium subscribers back in
0:17.0	March around the idea of vegetables potentially being negative for health. So first of all,
0:22.8	claims that, one, vegetables aren't beneficial for your health. There's no real health benefit
0:27.2	to them. And then secondly, some people that you may have heard claiming that vegetables are
0:32.2	actually detrimental to health. And so you can remove them to improve health. And so there are many
0:37.2	claims embedded within this.
0:39.4	And as part of the Quack Asylum episodes that we cover on Sigma Nutrition Premium,
0:44.8	we take a big claim like this that has been peddled somewhere and go through in as much
0:50.6	detail as we can, what subclaim claims come from that and actually look at some
0:55.3	the evidence behind it. So they can be quite in depth and lengthy, which is hopefully very
1:01.5	useful for getting to the bottom of where these claims come from and understanding, well,
1:06.3	is there any basis to them? And then also you can engage with people who maybe are of some of these opinions
1:12.2	that tend to be around quackery. Because one of the big issues is that sometimes we hear things
1:18.6	that we know are likely going to be quackish. But if someone asks you a question and you're,
1:23.6	let's say, a nutrition professional, having answers to some of the quackish claims
1:28.6	that they have heard is very useful. And so knowing where those claims come from and then how to
1:33.5	adequately respond and what evidence behind them is very informative, or at least I hope it is.
1:39.0	So this is one of our quackassolm episodes that we published on Sigma Nutrition Premium. So I wanted to give you an idea of
1:45.1	the types of episodes that these are. And so you're going to listen to the full thing today. And so if you
1:52.3	like this and you would like to get more of these types of episodes, they are exclusive to subscribers of
1:58.1	Sigma Nutrition Premium. And so you can check out a subscription. I'll have a link
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Danny Lennon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Danny Lennon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.