Erin Allman-Updike

That's amazing.

Yeah.

Yes.

Right.

And it's I mean, fiber is like it is the one thing that I do a lot of counseling on in all of my primary care visits, my preventive care visits when we're talking about food and diet, because it's also that like foods that are high in fibers tend to be also the foods that are good plant proteins and they have a lot of other micronutrients and things.

So like to get your fiber from whole food sources, you are also shifting the overall diet profile that you're eating, which is like fiber is great.

Now, more.

89% of us are getting too much sodium.

See our salt episode for more.

I include myself in that.

Yeah.

65% of us are eating more than 10% of our calories in added sugar, which is a lot.

82% of us are eating more than 10% of our calories from saturated fat already before these recommendations to increase animal protein, to increase the fat in your dairy, to use butter.

And it's only older adults.

About 5 to 15 percent of older adults are maybe not getting enough protein.

And that's like a low percentage compared to all of these other numbers.

It is true, though, like that our nutrition in the U.S.

is not great and it impacts our health.

It's estimated that 700 billion dollars each year is spent on health care costs related to nutrition related chronic diseases.

Right.