Dr. Michael Greger

That's where the resistant starch is.

That's where...

We can feed our good gut bugs and they feed us right back.

Wow.

Okay, so that's number four.

What would be the fifth thing?

Okay, the fifth thing are foods they want people to reduce.

They want people to reduce meat and soda as the two most important things to cut down in one's diet.

But interestingly, the top four were actually things people aren't getting enough of, right?

Right.

And so it's possible that really the benefits of a plant-based diet is less about what you're cutting out and more about just including the healthiest of healthy foods out there, right?

Exactly.

It's about, it's, that's the kind of behind the daily dozen thing.

It's like, by the end of the day, if you actually check off all those boxes, you are kind of naturally crowding out these less healthy options.

And it turns out over 50%,

of calories in the United States come from ultra-processed junk.

Most of the food we eat is just junk.

And so, right, we're just kind of trying to save them for the special occasion, right?

Doesn't matter what we eat on our holidays, birthdays, special occasions, but on a day-to-day basis, we really should try to eat healthy.

And that is centering our diets around these natural foods from fields, not factories, these kind of unprocessed foods.