Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to discuss the details of how nutrition science works.

So this podcast is called the Nutrition Science Podcast, and we discuss a lot of what we're

going to cover on this show in various episodes. But what I wanted to do in this episode is break

down the details of how nutrition research works to help you to better

be able to identify when people are presenting nutrition research in a misleading way, because

nutrition research is very complicated. And it's very easy to grab one study that agrees with your opinion and present it in a way that makes it seem like your opinion is science-based, but it's actually not if you understand how nutrition science works overall. So in this episode, I want to give a quick introduction about how we come to conclusions about topics in nutrition.

For example, if scientists say vegetables are good for your health, what are they basing that on?

How do we actually know the vegetables are good for your health?

Are we just guessing?

Do we believe that to be the case?

We're going to talk about how we come to those conclusions in this episode.

So first, I want to give an overview of the major types of nutrition research.

These are the forms of evidence that we use to develop a conclusion about a topic.

We don't really have quote unquote facts in nutrition.

You can't necessarily say something is a fact. What we do

have is evidence to support a theory. For example, if we're discussing the relationship between

saturated fat and heart disease, I would not feel comfortable saying that saturated fat

causes heart disease in claiming that that's a fact. Now, I would feel comfortable saying that saturated fat causes heart disease in claiming that that's a fact.

Now, I would feel comfortable saying that we have evidence to show that individuals who eat a lot

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