In Defense of Processed Foods with The Nutrition Tea

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

YES, you CAN eat ingredients you can’t pronounce! Processed foods get a bad wrap but Shana Minei Spence is here to set the record straight on canned food, frozen, and other processed products.. Shana is an “all foods fit” dietitian based in New York who you can trust to give you unbiased nutrition information to ACTUALLY improve your health and not elicit shame.

What we cover:

What are the levels of food processing?
Are ultra processed foods ok?
Why do we choose the foods we do?
Why “everything in moderation” advice is misleading
Should you really NOT eat foods with ingredients you can’t pronounce?
We process food to make it safe.
Do canned foods deserve their bad reputation?
How to choose canned foods wisely
Are frozen foods as healthy as fresh foods?
Are frozen meals nutritious?
How to pick the perfect balanced frozen meal

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess, and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.2	Welcome back to another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:24.5	Today, we are going to be talking about something that you don't hear
0:27.7	dieticians talk about too often, and that is processed foods.
0:32.3	We want to clear up some of the misinformation about processed foods.
0:36.9	They're often demonized, and we want to make the case for
0:40.5	incorporating processed foods into your diet.
0:42.7	So this episode is in defense of processed foods.
0:46.4	Today, we're featuring dietician Shana Spence.
0:50.2	She has a very popular account.
0:52.8	If you do not follow her on Instagram, you need to.
0:56.1	She's at the nutrition T, but Shana is a registered dietician nutritionist
1:00.3	based in New York, and she isn't all foods fit dietician.
1:03.5	She says life is already complicated why restrict yourself unnecessarily.
1:07.9	She creates a platform for open discussion on nutrition and wellness topics
1:11.3	that are anti-diet, health at every size, and non-weight centric related.
1:16.2	And she wrote an incredible article about processed foods for self-magazine,
1:20.8	so I thought she would be the perfect person to talk to about processed foods.
1:24.9	We're going to be chatting with Shana about what exactly are processed foods.
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