Let's say you're trying to lose 20 pounds or boost your immunity or increase your ability to fight COVID or even cancer.

Well, the amazing thing is with the right diet, you are well in your way to achieving these vital health goals.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today, I answer questions from you, what a wide variety of topics, everything from, is it bad to eat the same foods every day?

To the timely question, do I recommend the COVID vaccine? Listen to find out.

The first question I have is what's the problem with white potatoes for non-diabetics? Isn't the glycine index an highly glycine spike only concerned for diabetics and pre-diabetes? I think so. That's the advice of franksacks.

The problem with white potato and diabetics is a meta-analysis of all the studies done today show an increased risk for diabetes, even for boiled or baked potatoes, even accounting for things like sour cream and salt and butter and all that stuff.

The problem is that it may increase your risk of getting diabetes. That's not diabetics getting more diabetes. That's people without diabetes increasing the risk of getting diabetes. That's why we would be concerned with presumed because it's a high glycine.

We don't know why we care about glycine impact. We don't know ourselves. We know from studies done with this drug that can basically turn foods from the high glycine foods to the low glycine foods.

This is a drug that extends life proving that indeed even lower glycine foods is healthier for you. When we get high glycine foods, even people with normal blood sugars are fasting.

We get this exaggerated blood sugar spike. Our body releases so much insulin in response that we can actually drop down below fasting. When we do our body freaks out and releases these fat into the blood, these triglycerides.

You can do these studies looking at artery function within hours of consumption. Most of the problems with saturated fat. You can also get problems eating a variety of unhealthy foods, which includes high glycine foods, which is basically mostly processed garbage like wonder bread.

But there are a few high glycine whole plant foods, including white potatoes. But there's lots of things you can do. If you saw my recent webinar, you can add vinegar, lemon juice, broccoli, luscious glycine impact.

You can choose yellow potatoes, better than white perp potatoes, a purple flesh potato, yellow flesh potatoes, better than the purple better than yellow.

Next on the list is a bad, this is from blackst. This is a smiley face. Is it bad to eat the same foods every day as long as I'm getting all my nutrients? Well, it depends what kind of same foods.

If you're eating a great diversity of foods, and you eat that same great diversity every day, far end, I would just be concerned that you would not be getting enough dietary diversity if you're eating the same kind of foods. But if you're eating tons of different foods, you can eat those same tons of different foods every day.

Oh, here we go Peggy says, do I suggest people taking the vaccine or no? How sad is it that we know what the vaccine means without any context because we are living through a pandemic and will be unfortunate. I'm afraid for a few more years.

And unless everybody gets vaccinated. So absolutely, I'm in favor of getting vaccinated for COVID-19. It has an safety and efficacy record beyond our biolest dreams.

And the one who is skeptical all they have to do is look at the data. Now a year ago, it was be a legitimate stance to be like, look, these are new vaccines. We don't know what the risk and the cost and benefits are.

Maybe I'm gonna hold off until I know more. But oh my god, now, I mean, it seems like every week in the New England Journal, there's another study, these massive study showing remarkable benefits, remarkable safety, no longer does anyone have a scientific leg to stand on when they are questioning the efficacy or safety of these vaccines.

And so you are on the wrong side of history. I'm afraid and currently the wrong side of the evidence.

And that's just what the science is showing at this point. There's a acupuncture question.

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