Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Diva podcast. I'm your host, Monica Reynagle.

And when we launched this podcast back in 2008, I never imagined I'd still be here 16 years

and 800 episodes later. It has been such a great challenge and really a

privilege to be in this role, helping you make sense of nutrition science and sift through

diet trends and just build a healthier relationship with food. And over these years,

I've learned a lot, but I think my approach and

my philosophy has stayed relatively consistent. It's always been about cutting through the noise

in order to zero in on the things that actually matter and then translating them into practical

advice. But the world of nutrition science, that is a whole different story.

We have come a long way baby.

So today, to mark this milestone of 800 episodes, I thought I'd take a look back at five

of the most profound shifts in how we understand food,

health, and nutrition since this podcast began starting with the rise and fall of low-carb dieting.

You may remember back in 2008 that low-carb diets were all the rage. Atkins, who originally put

low-carb dieting on the map, had by that point been joined by other low-carb diets like the

South Beach diet and the Dukin diet, and the ketogenic diet was beginning to make waves.

The idea of cutting out carbs in order to lose weight

and improve health was incredibly compelling to a lot of people, and in some cases, it was effective.

You know, in an interesting side note, a study that I just ran across published in the Journal

of the Academy of Nutrition

and Dietetics found that among those who say that they follow a low-carb diet, when you

actually analyze what they are eating, it turns out that fewer than 2% of them actually do.

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