Here's What We Do Agree On About Nutrition
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to nutrition, it seems like we disagree about nearly everything: carbs, sugar, fat... even fruit. But, it turns out, there's actually a lot that the entire scientific community agrees on. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Christopher Gardner about nutrition science, what we've gotten wrong, and more importantly, what we've gotten right. It turns out, nutrition may not be as complicated as we make it seem. Find all shownotes on our website.
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| 0:48.5 | Okay, Eddie, I have a question for you. Ask me anything. Okay, when you think about the world |
| 0:53.8 | of nutrition. Yeah. What are some of the words that come to mind? Tribal. Yeah, contentious |
| 1:00.0 | disagreements. Yeah. It's a food fight. Exactly. It just seems like a whole lot of fighting and |
| 1:07.0 | arguing about types of fat and grams of carbohydrates. But what does nutrition science actually say about |
| 1:13.2 | all these disagreements? Where do the dietary guidelines even come from? And do we actually disagree |
| 1:19.7 | on that much? That is what we're going to talk about today. I'm Yuna Jada. And I'm Dr. Eddie Phillips. |
| 1:30.0 | And you're listening to food. We need to talk the only podcast that has been scientifically proven |
| 1:36.8 | to make everybody agree on absolutely everything just by listening. |
| 1:48.3 | Today's guest is I'm Christopher Gardner. I've a PhD in nutrition science and I am a professor |
| 1:54.5 | of medicine at Stanford University. So let's dive in to the history of dietary guidelines for a |
| 2:00.6 | second. Specifically, how we get to the narrative fat is bad. Eddie, would you believe that this |
| 2:07.8 | story goes all the way back to rabbits in a lab? Rabbits? I thought we were all about rats in this |
| 2:14.4 | podcast. Eddie, we do not discriminate between furry little things on this podcast. We include all |
| 2:20.0 | furry things. So yes, we're actually going to be talking about rabbits. So it really goes back |
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