Welcome to the Eat This, Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everyone. And now this week before we get started with the episode, we wanted to invite you to share your burning food questions with us so that we can start to share them right here on this very podcast, right?

So do this. Send us an email at podcast at eat this.com. I don't care if it's questions,

tips, tricks, topics. Yeah, send us anything. We're excited to read them.

Amazing food finds that maybe we haven't talked about here. I'm always on the hunt for amazing food

finds. So definitely give us those. But again, that's podcast at eat this.com. And tell us what's on your mind.

So that way we can tackle it right here on a future episode. And we'll read your email, unless you don't want us to. Then just say that in the email and say, hey, talk about this, but don't talk about me. Don't mention my name. Don't mention me. Yeah. Because maybe you're in the witness protection program, but you still need to know what to eat when you're at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods or Applebee's or whatever it might be, right? So anyway, podcast at eatthis.com. We can't wait to hear from you. Now, another thing that is, you know, going back to a series that we've been doing so far this year, the Diet Decoded, and, you know, the best diet and the best diet for me. And we've talked about keto. We've talked about paleo. And, you know, you got to figure out what's best for you. And this week we're going to dive into one that has, you know, I guess probably over to last 10 years become a lot more prominent. and it really, you know, the people that it grabs

a hold of, like it really grabs a hold of them. And, you know, what I see when I, when I see people

doing this, I tend to see people do it together because it's one of those diets where you really

need to have that community support. And this week, we're going to talk on Diet Decoded.

And we're going to break down the whole 30 diet. Yeah, the Whole 30. So this diet has been around for about a decade. And it

parallels the growing interest in clean eating that, you know, we've seen that shift in how America

is consuming food over the past decade or so. How it's being marketed for that matter.

Yeah, exactly.

The Whole 30 was started by Melissa Hartwig, and she is a certified sports nutritionist and co-creator of the original Whole 30 program.

And now it's grown into an incredible franchise.

They have four New York Times best-selling books, a huge community of people.

Like you mentioned, there's millions of

people that have praised the diet as a natural way to turbocharge and reset your body. And I think

it's really connected to the masses because people were starting to look for new ways to make

healthy lifestyle changes, but they were tired of the quick fix that didn't really have lasting

effects. So they turned to

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