Ep 1 / Why the Health and Fitness Industry Sucks pt.1 - Nutrition

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's cancer-causing hot dogs, inflammatory foods, or toxic ingredients, social media is overflowing with anecdotal health claims from anti-science nutrition "professionals". Whether you want to lose weight or just improve your diet, the rise in nutrition science misinformation is making achieving your health and fitness goals harder than ever. Today's episode provides you with tips on how to make the media a more trustworthy place for weight loss and nutrition education.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:01.2	We know the last thing you need is another fitness podcast to catch you up on the newest trends, fat diets, and fictitious fat blasting workouts that'll be dead within the coming decade.
0:10.9	Enter, Mariana and myself, Tony.
0:13.1	We made the fitness stuff podcast to make exercise and nutrition science practical.
0:17.3	So today we're talking about why the health and fitness industry sucks, specifically nutrition.
0:23.1	We're doing part one of part two today, right? Part one of part two. What's wrong with the fitness
0:28.0	and health industry? We're going to focus this one on the problems that we see in the nutrition
0:31.2	industry, really so we can clearly understand it. And then how do we navigate it? Yep.
0:37.1	And help you navigate it. Make your lives a little bit easier. So I'm going to start by asking you a loaded question. Oh, I love that. Okay. All right. What's wrong with the nutritional side of the health industry right now? Wow, this is just so specific. There's a lot of things wrong, obviously. I could talk about it forever.
0:55.0	The first thing that comes to mind naturally is misinformation.
1:01.0	Misinformation, that goes for both ends of fitness, nutrition, health, wellness.
1:06.0	You get to say that for anything on social media, but specifically people having a platform, anyone being able
1:13.5	to have a platform and being able to share whatever they please, whenever they want, and spreading
1:20.4	misinformation and people not really knowing how to navigate it, what's true, what isn't
1:24.0	true. We do that a lot on the end of nutrition when it comes to not only weight loss, but the fearmongering
1:31.1	behind certain foods and what foods cause disease and what foods are going to detoxify
1:37.7	your body and what foods are going to make you live forever versus what foods are going
1:41.5	to make you die early.
1:42.5	I did see an article.
1:43.5	I saw an article that a hot dog, every hot dog you eat takes eight minutes off your life. Eight minutes. Why does that sound familiar to me? It's published in the New York Times. Okay, we're going to stop there because. Quoted. Yeah, but that's what I just saw that. But no, okay, because I think you nailed two things on the head, at least what I caught.
2:01.7	Because one, yeah, there's misinformation everywhere in any topic in any given field.
2:07.2	But I think you're right.
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