Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So, we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not To Die and why I created my non-profit site NutritionFacts.org.

And now, this podcast.

Today we're going to look at the safety of GMOs, genetically modified organisms.

As it turns out, their long-term safety remains an open question since so few human studies

have been conducted, the greater concern, maybe the pesticides associated with GMOs since

80% of GMO crops are bioengineered for pesticide resistance alone.

Here's the story.

There's debate over the direct threat of the inserted genes in GMO crops as they may

not be detectable in the human body, but the real danger may come from pesticides associated

to genetically modified foods.

Genetically engineered seed biotechnology typically has not been used to increase crop yields

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