Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So, we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not To Die and why I created my non-profit site, NutritionFacts.org.

And now, this podcast.

Today, we'll look into the science on the right kinds and amounts of protein in our diets.

As pointed out by the chair of Harvard's nutrition department, plant protein is preferable

to animal protein because food is a package deal.

Unlike protein from animal sources, protein from plants has been associated with lower rates

of chronic disease.

But in the 1950s, the field of nutrition got human protein requirements spectacularly wrong,

leading to a massive recalculation.

Here's the story.

There's been a history of enthusiasm for protein in the nutrition world.

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