Dr. Sarah Ballantyne

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153 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Eat Almost Anything & Still Be Healthy & The Amazing World of Rats- SYSK Choice · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

So my goal is to make the barrier to entry to healthy eating as low as possible.

So that requires busting a lot of myths about food quality that make it feel like, well, if I can't afford all these expensive foods, like why even bother?

but also show people really that every slightly better choice counts.

So for example, in the scientific literature where they do dose responses looking at, let's say, vegetables and all-cause mortality, which is a general indicator of health and longevity, it's a really great tool to measure whether or not something is good or bad for us overall.

And we look at somebody who eats zero vegetables per day versus somebody who eats one serving of vegetables per day.

And you see this really like steep dose response curve from zero to one.

It's a huge difference.

It's maybe a 10, 15% reduction in all-cause mortality, just going from zero to one servings of vegetables per day.

A serving being raw, about the same volume as your fist, so about one cup.

That is the same difference as going from one to five servings of vegetables per day.

So you about double the benefit going from one to five as you go from going from zero to one.

And so that shows that you don't need to be perfect in order to benefit from putting some effort into adding more vegetables.

And those vegetables can be frozen.

They can be canned.

They don't need to be fresh or organic or from the local farm.

And also having the conversation about it's OK to make it taste good.

It's OK to add seasonings.

It's OK to add these vegetables to a recipe that you already like or to hide them from yourself or to make a cultural dish that really embraces bold flavors in order to make you like those green beans or whatever they are.

And then I think the next little step is a little bit easier.

Once you can sort of get your foot in the door, you've made that one little change of maybe it's getting a side salad through the drive-through or grabbing a piece of fruit as a snack instead of something from the vending machine.

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