Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

There's a very shocking fact about your food that you need to know about.

I want to cover some real basic definitions first, and then I'm going to dive right in.

If you look at the back of any label, of any food that you eat, there's something called

Nutrition Facts, which is fascinating because these are not facts at all.

They're just guesses, basically.

They should call them nutrition guesses.

And before I get into that part, let me just first start here.

We probably remember these things called RDAs, recommended dietary allowance.

It means how much of a certain nutrient you need based on your age, your male or female,

if you're pregnant or lactating.

Okay.

Then you have something called AI, adequate intake.

That is how much of a certain nutrient you need to prevent an obvious deficiency.

Okay.

Obvious.

So that would be like, how much you would need to prevent scurvy, like vitamin C or

berry, berry, vitamin B1, or rickets, where you have vitamin D.

But what the FDA did is they simplified it.

They came up with something called the recommended daily intake, RDAs, okay.

And that relates to an estimation of nutrient needs based on a 2000 calorie diet per day,

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