Dr. Mark Hyman

in America particularly, and real life can be messy, but what's at its most is reducing ultra-processed foods or just getting rid of them, don't introduce them, avoiding sugary drinks, modeling healthy habits at home.

I mean, kids learn more from what we eat than what we say, so small city changes make a big difference over time.

And, you know, people say, well, you know, my kids don't want to eat this.

They want to eat that.

All I want is mac and cheese and pizza, blah, blah, blah.

That's because you fed it to them and they're addicted to it.

What do you think kids eat in Japan?

They eat raw fish.

They eat seaweed.

Okay.

Kids eat whatever's in front of them and what they're growing up eating.

So I think people have to just understand they have to change their palate.

Now, next question was, do the guidelines still recommend limiting saturated fat and should we?

Well, yes, the guidelines still recommend limiting saturated fat, but the science here is more nuanced than the rules suggest.

As I said before, saturated fat is an inherently bad context matters.

The source of the fat, the overall diet, what replaces it all play a role.

So saturated fat from whole foods like yogurt, cheese, meat behaves very differently in the body than when it's replaced with refined carbs and processed foods or when eaten with those foods.

So instead of kind of obsessing over fat grams,

and percentages, just focus on food quality and what you're eating it with.

So if you're eating a lot of saturated fat with a lot of starch and sugar, bad.