Hey, welcome to the Each Live podcast. I'm here with my dad, Dr. Furman.

And I'm here with my daughter, Jenna Furman.

The topic we have for you today is we are going to be talking about weight loss and fad diets.

Shall we dive in?

Yep. And it's really a tremendously important topic because everybody's like talking about these new weight loss drugs in the market today.

I know that was coming. We were on a walk and I remember we were talking about that and I saw some like DMs come in and even my friends were asking me. But I want to, before we get into the weight loss drugs, I want to ask you, what is your definition of a fad diet? What makes it a fad? Because could I argue that the Nutriarian diet, the diet that you named as a fad? A fad diet has certain criteria.

Number one, it's their advocating exclusion of some food or food group without legitimate scientific rationale.

And the features of the diet usually result in some

long-term harm not benefit right so the so it's not beneficial and it usually

exclusion of some kind of food group that you don't that's not beneficial

to exclude and it and it's distorted in some way that makes it not beneficial or not sustainable

long term. Yeah, the long term piece I think is really key because we were talking about this.

I mean, people on keto or carnivore diet see all these wild benefits short term. And when I tell

you about this, it doesn't really surprise you. So it's like what's happening immediately might not be

the inner workings of something that's going to affect your overall health long term. Right. So it might not make itself that known that early. Right. You don't, when you smoke cigarettes, you don't get lung cancer after a year of smoking cigarettes. You could actually, it could help you like lose weight. I do all these things. Cigarettes help you lose weight. Yeah. You know, so you don't see that. You might be thinking I'm healthier.

But like before you knew cigarettes were bad for you, right?

Before like we had all this scientific evidence like you were talking about.

People don't have any idea how long cause and effect takes.

Let me give you one example that's interesting.

One of the major causes of colon cancer is the antibiotics people took in their childhood.

And they get colon cancer as an adult.

So this is, now I'm saying, pediatricians are a major cause of colon, and family doctors, which I'm one,

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