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Jessica Knurick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
413 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

They've all been deemed safe in Australia.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

They've all been deemed safe in Canada.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

I think that's a big misconception.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And that might come as a surprise to some people because there's a lot of narrative out on social media that other countries have banned them.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, salt is salt, right?

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

So salt is going to enact the same things in your body as any kind of salt.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

So pink Himalayan sea salt or sodium chloride, the white iodized salt.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

I think where a lot of these new salts come from is this idea because we fortify salt in our country with iodine and to help reduce risk of goiters, which has been extremely effective, an extremely effective public health kind of movement.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Many.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Yeah, many on social media are based on belief systems.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Many.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Or fallacies, like the naturalistic fallacy.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Yeah, I think this, again, kind of is this idea that natural is better, right?

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

So milk comes naturally raw.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Yes.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Correct.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

I also learned that there's a misconception.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

It's cool to have the social media following that I have because I can interact with a lot of people.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And so I found that there was a big misconception of what pasteurization is.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Many people thought that we were adding chemicals to milk in the pasteurization process, and they didn't realize that it's literally just heating milk.