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Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

April 17, 202655 min · 11,830 words

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Are seed oils really that bad? Are people getting enough protein? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Mecurio, & Gary O’Reilly cut through the noise on health myths, food misinformation, and the forces making it harder than ever to eat well with nutrition scientist, Jessica Knurick, PhD.

Highlighted moments

if a diet book were written by a physicist, it would be one sentence long, okay? Consume food at a lower calorie rate than you burn it.
the definition of ultra-processed is just simply it includes an ingredient or a processing method that you don't have access to. So you can't replicate it in your kitchen.
it's virtually impossible to eat most of your protein from animal meats and keep saturated fat less than 10%. So the visual representation is very confusing because it's very difficult, even as a nutrition professional, to devise a diet that actually follows all of those.

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