Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Brett Scher.

Today we're talking about, I guess we're talking about veganism.

I was trying to think of what the topic is, but I guess it's veganism.

And it's veganism from a documentary standpoint and from a science standpoint and from a rational

standpoint.

Now let me kind of describe all of this because

I know that sounds confusing. The world is so polarized and nutrition is no different. It seems

like it's vegan versus keto. It's certainly plant versus animals. From a health standpoint,

an environment standpoint, an ethical standpoint. It's like this three-legged stool, this constant debate from both sides that's so polarizing.

And, you know, it's sort of, I guess you could say it started in science journals.

I think the whole debate started around health and around science. But as we see with nutritional science,

it really gets played for people's advantage. And the science kind of gets lost in it all too

frequently. Not always, of course, but all too frequently, unfortunately. But now it's sort of graduated

from the science onto our TV screens, onto our computer screens, and onto documentaries.

And the problem with documentaries, well, the good and the bad of documentaries, right?

The good is they tend to be entertaining.

They tend to be gripping and fun to watch, and you can reach so many more people.

The bad is there's usually not much fact checking.

And we've gone through this with what the health and with game changers.

And, you know, is it a documentary or is it propaganda, right?

And there's so many problems with it.

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