Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.

We're your host, Dr. Jess Steyer and Dr. Sarah Scheinman.

And this week, we have a very special guest, Dr. Taylor Arnold, who will introduce in just one moment,

to talk about growing intuitive eaters. So we're going to get into

all of it feeding kids, dues, don'ts, all the things. So cannot wait to pick Taylor's brain.

Before we do, I will give you a brief public health update, which is actually pretty relevant to today's episodes

as we're talking about food and nutrition, which is that the environmental working group

dropped their dirty dozen list last week. We're recording this on March 30th. I think it came out

last week. If you're not familiar, the EWG puts out this list

every year, and it basically scares the poop at a parent and people who are not parents about

pesticides on our fruits and our veggies. And the TLDDR is that there's this list of a dozen fruits and

veggies that you must avoid. They're all conventionally grown and they steer people

toward organic alternatives. I could wax poetic about this for a very long time. I will just

say that this is a very, I dread when this list comes

out because at the end of the day, we need people to eat more fruits and veggies, full stop.

I like to say, you know, I'm into the food, I'm into the produce, not the label, which is a nod

to Schitt's Creek, if you've seen Schitt's Creek, one of my favorite TV shows.

It doesn't matter what you're eating. When you go to the store, when you go to the market and

you see a fruit or veggie that looks good to you, buy it. Doesn't matter if it's conventionally grown

or organically grown. And there's lots I could say about how organic produce is also grown

with pesticides, just organic pesticides. And we can't make

general, generalized statements about conventional or organic pesticides because there are so many

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