Dr. Christopher Gardner

Historically, the proportion of the NIH budget that goes to nutrition studies is infinitesimally small. There's been many requests to create an institute of nutrition. Personally, that would be pretty selfish. I'm all in. I wish they would have more resources for me to do those kinds of studies with objective money.

Historically, the proportion of the NIH budget that goes to nutrition studies is infinitesimally small. There's been many requests to create an institute of nutrition. Personally, that would be pretty selfish. I'm all in. I wish they would have more resources for me to do those kinds of studies with objective money.

Historically, the proportion of the NIH budget that goes to nutrition studies is infinitesimally small. There's been many requests to create an institute of nutrition. Personally, that would be pretty selfish. I'm all in. I wish they would have more resources for me to do those kinds of studies with objective money.

The bigger challenge is how many nutrition questions there are. So I just served for two years on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. We had two years to consider 60 different questions. Each one of the questions generated sub-questions.

The bigger challenge is how many nutrition questions there are. So I just served for two years on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. We had two years to consider 60 different questions. Each one of the questions generated sub-questions.

The bigger challenge is how many nutrition questions there are. So I just served for two years on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. We had two years to consider 60 different questions. Each one of the questions generated sub-questions.

The vast majority of questions resulted in a conclusion that's either not enough data available or only enough data available to generate a limited strength response. To get a moderate or a strong response, more data are needed. This was almost mind-numbingly repetitive through the whole two-year process. More data needed, more data needed, more data needed.

The vast majority of questions resulted in a conclusion that's either not enough data available or only enough data available to generate a limited strength response. To get a moderate or a strong response, more data are needed. This was almost mind-numbingly repetitive through the whole two-year process. More data needed, more data needed, more data needed.

The vast majority of questions resulted in a conclusion that's either not enough data available or only enough data available to generate a limited strength response. To get a moderate or a strong response, more data are needed. This was almost mind-numbingly repetitive through the whole two-year process. More data needed, more data needed, more data needed.

And this had to do with snacks, skipping meals, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, pregnancy, infancy, processed foods, seed oils, meat and protein. The questions are pretty endless. So even if you opened up the NIH and said, yeah, we're going to move 25% of our budget to studying nutrition, you wouldn't even come close to answering all the questions that the public has right now.

And this had to do with snacks, skipping meals, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, pregnancy, infancy, processed foods, seed oils, meat and protein. The questions are pretty endless. So even if you opened up the NIH and said, yeah, we're going to move 25% of our budget to studying nutrition, you wouldn't even come close to answering all the questions that the public has right now.

And this had to do with snacks, skipping meals, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, pregnancy, infancy, processed foods, seed oils, meat and protein. The questions are pretty endless. So even if you opened up the NIH and said, yeah, we're going to move 25% of our budget to studying nutrition, you wouldn't even come close to answering all the questions that the public has right now.

Yeah, at the end of the day, if you put all of my studies together, it's a whole food, plant-based diet, which does not mean vegan and doesn't mean vegetarian, but could.

Yeah, at the end of the day, if you put all of my studies together, it's a whole food, plant-based diet, which does not mean vegan and doesn't mean vegetarian, but could.

Yeah, at the end of the day, if you put all of my studies together, it's a whole food, plant-based diet, which does not mean vegan and doesn't mean vegetarian, but could.

Yeah, so I don't like this new thing about plant-based being vegan. Sorry. It's a terrible name. So let's just do this for 60 seconds. So... pescatarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian, reducitarian.

Yeah, so I don't like this new thing about plant-based being vegan. Sorry. It's a terrible name. So let's just do this for 60 seconds. So... pescatarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian, reducitarian.

Yeah, so I don't like this new thing about plant-based being vegan. Sorry. It's a terrible name. So let's just do this for 60 seconds. So... pescatarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, vegan, flexitarian, reducitarian.

There's all kinds of words out there. And clearly, one of the ones that doesn't go over well is vegan. Vegan is very polarizing. And a lot of that is because the vegan community... An important reason many of them are vegan is animal rights and welfare. And it becomes sort of a condescending thing. Oh my God, you're so unethical and immoral. You slaughter animals and eat them.

There's all kinds of words out there. And clearly, one of the ones that doesn't go over well is vegan. Vegan is very polarizing. And a lot of that is because the vegan community... An important reason many of them are vegan is animal rights and welfare. And it becomes sort of a condescending thing. Oh my God, you're so unethical and immoral. You slaughter animals and eat them.