Next, is sugar okay in moderation or does it cause inflammation?

This one I'm just tired of. So this idea that like sugar is inflammatory. Our body produces sugar. If we don't eat sugar, our body will produce it so we don't die. If we have none, we die. And so if it's inflammatory, like this makes no sense. Yes, if our sugar is too high for too long, that's a problem. But that's only going to happen if your metabolism is dysfunctional.

So having a little bit of sugar in moderation through fruits, especially through fruits, have as much as you want through fruits, but even added sugars in moderation, it's not that big of a deal. If it's within the context of a healthy diet, it's meeting your energy needs, it's not, you know, over in calories. Now, if you're having ice cream every night and that calls you to overeat and you're gaining weight over time, that's not a good thing. But that's not just sugar. And so having a little bit of sugar as a part of your diet, added sugar as a part of your diet, as long as you're eating within your energy needs and you're eating a nutritious diet, not something to worry about. Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed

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How's it going on, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we're going to do another Q&A podcast.

So I collected questions through my social media, through my Instagram. If you're not following me there, I recommend following me there.

If you use Instagram, if not, no worries, don't recommend getting on the app.

It's a cluster of a lot of bad information and small pockets of decent information.

And so I have done some Q&As through my stories there and have taken some of the

questions that I've gotten frequently and I'm going to discuss that here.

So I've done a podcast two episodes ago if you didn't listen to that one. I recommend

checking it out. So two episodes ago, we did the Q&A episode number one. We talked about the

blue zones because that's something that's popular. That's not something that would normally

discuss on a normal episode. So that's the things that could be good for this Q&A is going to be

things like that, things that are popular

in the media, how to choose higher quality carbohydrates. That was another one that I get questions

about a lot. People like the simple tip I've given around that. And then what I think about the term

food is medicine, high HDO and low LDO cholesterol. That's a popular thing among low carb groups.

And then red, 40, and ADHD.

What is the connection there?

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