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Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Food Myths Dispelled for Our Patients

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8997 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Do you know what to eat? How much fiber, sodium or protein do you need in your diet? It sounds a little funny, but a lot of Americans do not know what to eat everyday. 

In this episode, we will give some eye opening statistics about the food we eat. We will also discuss some myths that just aren't true.

Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he helps steer us through the difficult world of food myths.

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0:00.0

Now before we start this week's podcast, I as a gastrointestinal

0:03.0

and all just have to share a completely random fact that's very important

0:06.8

and I must have everyone know it.

0:08.9

Did you guys know that wombats, those cute little Australian mammals, actually poop in cubes.

0:15.9

That's right, their poop is shaped like cubes and for a while we didn't actually know about

0:20.4

it.

0:21.4

Now as humans we are fascinated by Rubik's Cubes, but only one animal

0:25.3

in the entire world is able to poop in that shape and that is the bear-nosed

0:29.6

wombat. The other fun fact about this Australian marsupial is that it actually squeezes out about 100

0:35.1

six-sided turds every day, an ability that is long mystified scientists as we can't understand

0:40.1

the evolutionary advantage for it.

0:41.8

But now I know this fact and so to you. Now let's get back into it with

0:45.2

regards to our podcast. Now Kaysha, Kaysha, Kaysh, I don't know, money signed, shah. We're not exactly sure what her name is, but she put out a song and in that

0:55.2

song she said, she wakes up in the morning feeling like P didi, she grabs her glasses, she's

1:00.4

out the door, she's gonna hit this city. and then she says before I leave I brush my teeth with a ball of jack because when I leave for the night I ain't coming back and when I heard those lyrics it actually brought to mind a specific issue. The issue that as

1:13.8

Americans our patients have no idea what to eat, especially if they're using

1:18.4

Jack Daniels to brush their teeth. And just another fact for you, Jack Daniels is

1:22.3

actually Frank Sinatra's favorite

1:23.8

beverage the guy could have anything New York New York but he likes his Kentucky

1:27.4

bourbon really a whiskey but we're not going to really go into that right now but

1:31.2

here's the thing I have patients who come in every single day

1:35.2

who tell me I don't know what to eat. I hear all these things on the internet,

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