Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And in this episode, we are going to be discussing seven common mistakes

that people make with their nutrition. This is going to be a more practical episode,

but I'm pretty confident that if you tune all the way through, you're going to get a lot of

value from these topics that we discuss because in many conversations and interactions and

working with clients, I have found that these things

tend to hold a lot of people back from making the nutrition changes that they like

and making sustainable nutrition changes that they feel good with. So let's go ahead and jump

into the episode. And we're going to start with number one, which is thinking that there

is a perfect diet. And if you've been listening to this podcast, you know that I'm not an

advocate of anyone, you know, following a specific diet or telling you you have to follow a

Mediterranean diet or a low carb diet or a vegan diet. For each and every one of us, there's a certain

dietary pattern that's going to work for us. And there is no perfect diet. For each and every one of us, there's a certain dietary pattern that's going to

work for us, and there is no perfect diet. There is no diet that's, quote, unquote, the

healthiest diet that doesn't exist. And there's many people who will say whatever diet that

they're promoting is the best and will use research or not even research in many cases to try to build a case for

that. But the reality is the perfect diet is the diet that you feel good with, the diet that

you can stick with, the diet that meets your energy and nutrient needs. It helps regulate your

health risk factors, helps keep your LDL cholesterol low, helps

keep your blood glucose in the right levels. And what that looks like for you is going to be

completely different than what that looks like for someone else. Now, there are some dietary

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