A Real Conversation About Wellness Extremes, Cure-All Diets & How to Actually Find Balance | Shyla Cadogan, RD
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Ep 116. What does “good nutrition” actually mean – and why have we built a BILLION dollar industry that only makes us more confused about how to feed ourselves? Why is it that one day the internet is telling you to be a raw vegan, and 5 years later carnivore is suddenly a panacea? Shyla Cadogan is a registered dietitian focused on making nutrition simple again. Shyla explores the extensive impact that processed foods have on our bodies, while at the same time not putting perfection, whole foods or ‘superfoods’ on a pedestal. She brings some much needed nuance (and humor) to the question: what the heck should I eat and who should I listen to?
HERE’S THE JUICE:
- Shyla’s transition from intense vegan diets to an unattached, simple way of fueling
- The importance of finding the middle ground with nutrition rather than opting into extremes
- Why nutrition professionals have a duty to keep things professional rather than trying to be cutting edge or go viral
- How the concept of intuitive eating has gotten warped and why most of us are practicing it all wrong and feeling bad about it
- How you can be anti-diet-culture and still not eat a lot of processed foods
- Why Shyla says “a true relationship with food is having no relationship with it at all”
- The importance of not shaming people for being imperfect in their health decisions and educating in a considerate manner
- The history of “superfoods” and why the term is a bit of a scam
- The distrust that the public currently has in dietitians (ie. thinking they’re paid by big pharma!)
- How processed foods were originally created for war times and food corporations have used that opportunity to exploit us
- How cultural foods play a role in healthy eating
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| 0:00.0 | I know that the online space, the nutrition and wellness and health world can be extremely confusing, especially when it comes to food. |
| 0:12.4 | Food is such a personal thing. There are studies that can prove one diet is great for you and then you turn around and find a study that proves that that same diet is terrible for you. There are so many different camps out there. There's keto, |
| 0:24.6 | there's carnivore, there's vegan, there's paleo, there's dietitians that tell you that |
| 0:30.9 | process foods don't hurt you and are part of a balanced diet and that everything is a chemical. And |
| 0:35.4 | there's dietitians and nutritionists that tell you that |
| 0:37.5 | you have to eat super clean and avoid a single natural flavor or else you're doomed. And I think it can be |
| 0:44.2 | really annoying and confusing to cut through the noise and figure out what does nutrition mean to me, |
| 0:50.2 | what feels good in my body, and how do I just build a balanced plate and not have such a charged |
| 0:55.1 | relationship with food. Shaila Kudogan, registered dietitian, our guest on the podcast today, |
| 1:00.6 | is explaining that so well through her social media channels. And that is why I had to invite her on |
| 1:07.7 | the pod. If you've never seen Shaila's TikTok or her Instagram, she makes these |
| 1:12.5 | videos that cut through the dogma and the absolute statement in the nutrition world and help |
| 1:19.9 | you to just find the simple things that you can do to make your life, your plates, more nutritious and healthful. And she's really good at |
| 1:31.1 | using humor to kind of make fun of the extremes and debunk all of these myths and, again, |
| 1:38.1 | absolute statements that we hear in the wellness world. So today, Shaila and I sit down. |
| 1:42.8 | We take it all the way back and we talk about how |
| 1:46.3 | we both originally fell for the high carb, low fat, raw vegan movement in like 2016 when freely |
| 1:56.4 | the banana girl was on YouTube telling everyone to eat 40 bananas and 16 dates in a shake every |
| 2:02.9 | single day. And we talk about how humming from that much of an extreme and just like searching |
| 2:09.1 | for the truth in nutrition led us to having a very skeptical, balanced, and nuanced take on nutrition |
| 2:17.2 | today where nothing is really off the table, |
| 2:19.5 | but we try to really critically think about what we're eating. So throughout this whole episode, |
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