Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi everyone.

And now we spent a lot of time on this podcast talking about some of the hottest diet trends

and all of the new nutritious foods to stock up on. But last week a new study really caught my eye.

It really made me kind of sit up and take notice and ask a serious question of myself, you know? And it's just like, what is a bad diet? And we talk about, like, and we've been doing the Diet Decoded series and we're talking about all these different diets, but it doesn't matter if you're starting point or if you think you're, you most of us probably think our diet is, it's just fine. This is like, I'm not hungry all the time, but do you have a bad diet? Do you ever think about, like the? Yeah, I mean, that study, this study is astounding. So I'm excited to get into it. But, you know, a bad diet can be multiple things. And usually it is multiple things. It's not only not getting enough of the good stuff, but it's getting too much

of the crap and the bad stuff. And, you know, when I was younger, I was, I'm still a cravings girl,

don't get me wrong, but I ate more about, okay, what am I craving? What's taste delicious? What's

going to feel good going down? I didn't necessarily pay attention to how my body felt after the fact,

maybe because I was younger and I had an amazing metabolism, but as you get older and you get a

little more educated on food and science and nutrition, you know, if you think about your body as a machine,

you know, why wouldn't you want to fuel it so you can perform at the optimum level, you know, like food is everything.

It affects your every single organ, every single cell in your body, your brain, your heart,

everything. So focusing on all the good stuff getting in there, I think people need to do that

more and just kind of retrain their brain. It's not just about how it tastes. Why wouldn't you

want to feel your best? And it's about retraining yourself. I think that's key. And again, we think about all the

things that we like remove from our diet, right? Get rid of carbs, get rid of this. And that's what was,

and I'll get to the study in just one second. But that's what the study to me kind of underscored

is it calls out these foods the reason why

these bad diets are leading to to deaths yeah is because as much as what is not in the diets

of people as much as what they're eating right the fried foods this things that we know are not

great for us but there are these food groups that we're really deficient on on. So let's let's get to the study because we've, we've kind of built it up. And everyone's listening going, like, tell me about the study. I'm going, like, we've got to worry about it. I mean, it's been all over, actually. And I'm sure you probably saw the headlines recently. They were blared across the nightly news, the morning shows, major newspapers,

you know, but here saw the headlines recently. They were bladed across the nightly news,

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