FFF 096: Why Netflix & Bad Science Harms The Vegan Movement - with Laura Thomas PhD

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Scott Baptie

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4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak to Laura Thomas who loves to call BS when she sees nutrition misinformation being spread! She did her undergrad nutrition degree in Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen before heading across the pond to do her PhD in Nutrition at Texas A&M University.

On a personal note, Laura became a vegetarian at 10 years old and later a vegan when she was a student. However, she bases her own nutrition approach on ethics and evidence, not fear-mongering and pseudoscience.

We dedicate a huge section of this podcast to discussing many of the myths that surround the vegan diet. Laura gives us an incredibly honest review and evidence-based of the controversial Netflix film, “What the Health”. In our discussion, she exposes how the filmmakers used some dodgey science and cherry-picked data to support some of their outrageous claims.

We also touch upon what it means to eat intuitively and what’s right for your body, rather than banning foods and trying a one size fits all FAD diet.

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0:00.0	Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?
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0:21.5	the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness
0:27.4	podcast. You're listening to episode 96 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by
0:34.2	foodfor fitness.co.uk. I'm your host, Scott Mapti, and this week I am joined by a fellow Aberdoin, although her accent wouldn't lead you to think that way.
0:44.4	Laura Thomas. Now, Laura is also a podcast host of Don't Salt My Game. And in this episode, we are chatting all about Netflix, bad science and the vegan movement. So recently,
0:56.2	there's been several big budget documentaries on Netflix about veganism. And what Laura and I are
1:03.0	going to do in this episode is break down some of the claims made and look at the claims
1:07.7	versus the evidence, looking at whether they do more harm than good,
1:13.5	whether people should actually watch them. We'll be talking about some of the dangers of
1:17.2	cherry picking data. So this is what happens in a lot of these films. The filmmakers pick
1:22.4	data to support their standpoints rather than taking a broader point of view. We'll be looking at some of the
1:28.0	myths around the vegan diet and we're just having a real good chat and a bit of a bitch about
1:33.0	some things in the industry as well. So I had a lot of fun recording it. A lot of people have
1:37.3	been asking for this episode to happen. They've been saying for ages, Scott, you and Laura,
1:41.1	have to do an episode together. So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy listening
1:44.7	to it because I certainly had fun recording it. So here we go. Episode 96 of the Food for Fitness
1:49.6	podcast with Laura Thomas. Laura, for the listener who doesn't know about you, give us a little
1:55.8	bit more background. What do you do? How did it all begin? Where does the accent come from? The Cliff Notes version of
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