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 cover nine principles of a healthy

nutrition pattern. And the reason that I want to cover this particular topic is I got a question

recently of someone on social media and they asked, how would you sum up a, quote unquote,

healthy diet or a healthy nutrition pattern? And I think it's important to really give an overview and really cover the overarching

principles that I think are important.

And then I can refer people to this episode and say, hey, this is a good episode to listen

to.

These are the things to pay attention to.

And for those of you who are listening, you may have heard me talk about saturated fats

or artificial sweeteners

or some other topic, omega-3 fatty acids.

And sometimes you can get really interested in all of these different topics, but you

never put it all together.

And that's what I want to do with this episode, is put it all together and discuss the

nine overarching principles that I recommend to focus on when trying to make

your nutrition. And I want to talk about the nine principles that I recommend to focus on

if you're trying to improve the quality of your nutrition. And these are not in any particular

order, although they kind of are, as you'll hear as I go through them, but I think that they're going to be

valuable to listen all the way through, think about which areas that you could put,

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