Dr. Jessica Knurick: Is American Food Actually Poison? Debunking the MAHA Movement & Nutrition Myths
What Now? with Trevor Noah
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 109 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Wait, there's a list of ingredients, basic ingredients that people always interact with, always have in their homes, that they might not be sure if they're good or bad, including myself. |
| 0:14.8 | So I'm going to do a quick fire off, maybe a few. |
| 0:17.1 | Then you tell me, yay or nay, and why they yay, right? |
| 0:20.4 | Okay. |
| 0:20.7 | So salt. Is it a yay or nay? why the yay, right? Okay. So salt. |
| 0:37.8 | Is it a yay or nay? You need salt. Your body needs salt to survive. It's too much salt that's the problem, which is probably going to be my answer to all of these. So now there's a battle between Himalayan salt or just no more salt. Which one is good? Which one is bad? They're both fine. Marketing. Yeah. Sugar, good or bad? |
| 1:10.9 | Again, sugar, I mean, there's sugar and fruit and fruit is a wonderful food, right? So, because you're also getting all of those nutrients. And so sugar is not necessarily bad. It's the overconsumption of sugar. That's bad. And particularly, like, added sugar, like a soda, right? Because you're just drinking sugar with no nutrients at all. So that's kind of what you want to stay away from or limit versus just thinking sugar itself is bad. White sugar or brown sugar? Which one is the best? They're the same. Oh, I always thought brown sugar was way healthy. I thought it was like brown rice. I would eat it all the time and I'd be like, Mom, look, I'm being healthy. |
| 1:11.8 | No. |
| 1:13.5 | And then she'd throw carrots at my head. |
| 1:21.3 | This is What Now with Trevanoa. This is What Now with Trevanoa. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah. Dr. Jessica. |
| 1:34.6 | You know what's funny? |
| 1:36.8 | We were all debating how to say the name. |
| 1:39.6 | I thought it was Knerick. |
| 1:42.2 | And then someone else was like Nurek. |
| 1:42.8 | Nurek. Which one is it? It's closer to the second one. It's Nurek. It is NERIC. Yeah. The K is silent like knife. I don't like silent letters. I'm not going to lie. I'm just going to put it out there. Your name can be your name. I just don't think this is cool for people because it's like your name is like a trap. |
| 2:20.9 | It's a made up name. Imagine if I was like, I'm Trevor Noah and then they're like, no, no, no, no, K-N-O-A-H. I mean, the H is kind of silent, isn't it? Yeah. The Noah? Noah. You caught me. You have a silent letter too. I do, I do. Eugene Cosa. No, you know, you know, you're not things I didn't about because you have to silent letter too i do i do eugene causa no you know you know you're |
| 2:20.1 | nothing silent about because you have to say the h properly can knife can knife |
| 2:23.8 | knife no no i'm i'm just thinking about i've never really thought that the k in knife was |
| 2:30.2 | was silent it is silent knife i likeife. I like Knaife. |
| 2:35.7 | There's a lot of silent K's. |
| 2:36.0 | Yeah. The Knaife. |
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