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Jessica Knurick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
413 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Or ACOG, which is for gynecology, gynecologists and obstetrics.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Look at these different medical organizations, see what they're putting out.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And which is difficult when you're just one person to kind of like go to all these different areas.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

So I understand that that's it's not the greatest kind of solution at this time, but we are seeing maybe no other path.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

We are seeing misinformation coming out of our government websites right now.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Yeah, I mean, exercise is great, so keep exercising.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

I think that it's really important to understand in nutrition science that the basis of nutrition science, like the basis of what we would explain to you as a healthful dietary eating pattern is pretty unchanged for over the last many decades.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And so for how much we always are like, oh, nutrition's so confusing, it's always changing.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

It's actually not, just the discourse about it is constantly changing because people are trying to manipulate the narrative.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And so, you know, if you're thinking about a healthy dietary eating pattern,

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Center your diet on plants, fruits, vegetables, whole grains.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Get a variety of protein from animal and plant-based sources.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

Eat as many kind of like whole nutrient-dense foods as possible and limit kind of these low-nutrient, ultra-processed foods.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

But again, there's some variability in that definition.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And so that's why I kind of say low-nutrient, ultra-processed foods.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And kind of understand that there's not a lot, all the sensational claims about nutrition

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

it's usually someone who's trying to sell you something on the back end of those sensational claims.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

And so if you can kind of avoid getting down that path.

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

So like if a video starts and says, are you poisoning your kids?

StarTalk Radio
Busting Nutrition Myths with Jessica Knurick

That's not going to be good information.