Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp. And those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show.

There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible

to know what's real and what's BS.

On Biteback, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food,

their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the

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Welcome to Tuesday's episode. This is a doozy. It is a topic that maybe you're going to roll your eyes at at first. Maybe you're going to be defensive.

Because honestly, it's an uncomfortable subject and it feels overwhelming and it feels like there's nothing that we can do about it, but there is.

And I'm hoping, because my audience is mostly parents with young kids,

like I would like to make a change in this area before our children are of the age

where they're asking for a smartphone and social media accounts.

So today I am speaking with Dr. Allison Young. She is a family

physician here in Ontario and she has kind of developed this interest in smartphones and the

effects that it has on children because she sees young kids and teens and young adults in her

office regularly who are struggling with mental health,

struggling with cell phone addiction, watching hours upon hours of like TikToks and social media

content and dealing with like online bullying and the social pressures of being on social media. And it's a really difficult thing because

people are really, and by people I mean young people, are dealing with these things. And there's

not, you know, set treatments in place. Like, it's such a new thing that it's not like there's

a 12-step program for, you know, young adults who

are addicted to their phones. It's, it's a new thing. And so she is trying to spread the message of,

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