SNR 149: Mike Israetel, PhD - Evidence-Based Healthy Eating Principles

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Episode 149: Mike Israetel, PhD discusses the hierarchy of nutritional factors that have an affect on health, how this differs from just body composition goals and how to avoid getting married to any one diet method.

Mike Israetel is currently a professor of Exercise Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, as well consulting nutritional and training for elite strength and combat athletes around the world. Mike is the head science consultant for Renaissance Periodization, where he has authored and co-authored a number for books. He has a PhD in Sport Physiology from East Tennessee State University, and on the sporting side has experience as a competitive powerlifter, grappler and bodybuilder.

In this episode we discuss:

Hierarchy of nutrition factors that impact health
Evidence-base on dietary fat, saturated fat, grains and other nutrients
The false idea that "restriction is bad"
Pointless arguments over terms like "clean eating" and "junk food"
How to better communicate ideas to the general population without making them over-simplistic

Transcript

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0:00.0	Red meat, that's what's bad.
0:02.0	Like really, you're going to tell me with some, you know, typical Walmart shopper who weighs 400 pounds and eats like 6,000 calories a day where they should be eating 3,000
0:21.6	for their size.
0:22.8	The problem is red meat.
0:24.6	That's what's making them obese.
0:26.3	Like if they replaced their red meat with just turkey, but continue to eat boxes of Oreos,
0:31.8	like they'd be healthy.
0:33.6	Like that's nonsense, right?
0:35.2	So there's a sense of proportion required here.
0:37.4	Can you overeat red meat and thus saturated fat that comes in it? Potentially. Like that's nonsense, right? So there's a sense of proportion required here.
0:37.5	Can you overeat red meat and thus saturated fat that comes in it?
0:41.3	Potentially, but it's very unlikely it's going to be through red meat itself.
0:44.3	It's going to have to be through processed meat products and about 10 gallons of ice cream and everything else you can think of. Hello and welcome to the show.
1:07.7	You are of course listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio, hosted by me, Danny Lennon,
1:13.1	and this is episode 149 of the podcast. And as always, we're going to be discussing nutrition
1:20.4	and performance from an evidence-based perspective. Before we get into today's episode,
1:26.2	I just want to remind you guys that you can get free access to the VIP list for the soon-to-launch Sigma Weight Cutting System for MMA and Boxing.
1:35.0	This system will essentially give you a step-by-step blueprint of how to fuel training and recovery, what weight class to select, what mate to maintain during training blocks,
1:45.8	how to gradually bring weight down without hurting your performance, and then how to actually
1:50.5	set up and customize the weight cut to make weight for a fight effectively, and then the strategy
1:57.7	to refuel and rehydrate afterwards so that you feel awesome by the time the fight comes around.
2:02.6	So there's no fads, no kind of bro signs with this stuff.
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