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boom we back up a dead-ass with some
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most science like that alright alright
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guys so I see a lot of confusion out
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there about health foods we see data
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that says one thing is good in one study
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and then another study it’s not so good
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and I want to kind of help clear up some
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of the myths around so-called health
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foods and help you understand what the
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studies actually mean and how you might
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apply some of this information all right
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so when you’re discussing any health
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claims or health food claims there’s
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three questions to always ask yourself
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to think like a scientist and actually I
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got these from an economist I saw an
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interview with ton of soul who my boy
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he’s awesome I love Thomas soul he he’s
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just got a very giving away from the
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politics of things he looks at things
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like a scientist would so three
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questions he always asks when talking
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about economic policies his three
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questions I also ask when looking at
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research or evidence claims or any
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product claims and the first one is
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compared to what somebody says this food
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burns fat compared to what okay
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are you saying that like for example
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there was a report a few years ago that
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dark chocolate had fat burning
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properties okay compared to what can you
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just eat more dark chocolate and lose
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fat do the calories from dark chocolate
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not count compared to what second at
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what cost
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for almost everything there’s a
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trade-off and so you have to ask if
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you’re adding one thing by default
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you’re taking something else out
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typically so what’s the cost associated
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with that and three what’s the hard
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evidence say okay I I get this all the
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time where people say well this product
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has so many studies to back it up and
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then I actually go look at the studies
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80% of the time the studies have
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nothing to do with the product or
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they’re completely misrepresented
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misinterpreted or the dosage is
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completely wrong okay so let’s let’s
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take for example something like oh I
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don’t know artificial sweeteners because
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that’s not that’s a hot topic right now
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you would say all whether they’re toxic
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to your gut microbiome okay compared to
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what okay well compared to I don’t know
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other sources of calories maybe all
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right
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well actually they don’t have calories
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but maybe compared to other things
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what’s the hard evidence say well if you
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look at these studies on artificial
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sweeteners and I realized that that’s
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one cult
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I haven’t pissed off in a while the anti
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artificial sweetener cult so we’re about
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to go Raw on them if you look at the
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data autumn the data is showing that
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artificial sweeteners cause health
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problems is either in animals using an
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extremely high dose using cell lines
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which was this microbiome study that
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came out a few months ago they took E
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coli and basically for lack of a better
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term in a petri dish put massive doses
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of artificial sweeteners on them and
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found that it was toxic to those ecoli
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bacteria no if you take anything in
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a petri dish and get the concentration
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high enough it’s usually toxic so the
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hard evidence very minimal and then also
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in terms of people people say well
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there’s some epidemiological research
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showing that people who are more
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overweight are more likely to take in
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higher levels of artificial sweetener
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that’s not causative okay so for the
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foot up for that claim for example the
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heart official sweeteners are bad for
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you there’s there’s not really much hard
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evidence to back that up if any okay
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now I’m not saying there might not be a
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cost to them maybe there is but we
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haven’t seen it yet it’s not evident in
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the hard evidence all right so all these
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people out there saying oh artificial
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sweeteners are gonna kill you and
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they’re bad for you don’t they don’t
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have hard evidence to back this up
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always ask when you’re looking at
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references for things if somebody says
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Oh
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a study showed ask them what the study
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was get the reference like so we said
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well this product has I was in a chat
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with somebody online who was trying to
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sell me detox products from Isagenix and
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I said okay first off what specifically
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are the chemicals that this product is
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detoxing what evidence do you have that
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these chemicals are in fact toxic what
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evidence do you have that the chemicals
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you’re claiming are toxic are toxic and
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the doses that humans would normally be
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exposed to and finally what evidence do
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you have that your particular product
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Detox’s these chemicals in the dose that
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is provided in your product they
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couldn’t answer that so please keep
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these three questions in mind and I’m
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gonna make this a little bit more
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practical for you as well
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by putting together some popular don’t
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know my own strength some popular some
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popular claims about health foods and
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I’m not saying these claims are bogus
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I’m just saying you need to take them in
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context
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let’s take some specific health foods
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Whole Grains
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there’s a lot of research out there to
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show that as intake of whole grains goes
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up that is associated with lower risk
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for cancer and heart disease what a lot
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of people will misinterpret this is well
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I should just eat as many whole grains
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as I possibly can
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well if you’re eating for example 2,000
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calories a day and maintaining your
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weight and now you throw five servings
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of whole grains on top of that and now
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you’re eating 2,500 calories a day and
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you’re gaining fat you’re actually less
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healthy what we’re talking about is
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taking some of the carbohydrate of your
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diet that is refined processed replacing
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it with whole grains so that would be
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that number one question compared to
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what same thing with something like nuts
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nuts have been shown with lower rates of
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cancer okay but you can’t just start
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eating people here Oh nuts are good for
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heart health or nuts are good for this
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and so just start any more nuts and they
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won’t account for the calories in them
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if you don’t account for the calories in
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them nuts aren’t magic now if you’re
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replacing some of the other fats in your
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diet with fats from nuts then maybe
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you’re getting some cardioprotective
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benefits but if you’re just adding more
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nuts on top of your normal diet you’re
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consuming more calories you’re gonna
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gain more body fat it’s actually less
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healthy for you so same thing this kind
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of goes in line with pupas
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polyunsaturated fatty acids
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polyunsaturated fatty acids have shown
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to have a cardioprotective effect and
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lower incidence of cancer with higher
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intakes of poo FFA’s but this is only if
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you were placing it from something else
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so for example if you replace your
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saturated fatty acids with
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polyunsaturated fatty acids you get
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better health outcome you’re not going
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to get those health benefits by just
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overeating polyunsaturated fatty acids
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because you gain body fat and you’re
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getting body fat your insulin
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sensitivity goes down if you’re just
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adding polyunsaturated fatty acids and
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you’re not accounting for them in your
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calories you’re not replacing something
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with them then you’re actually making
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the problem worse because higher levels
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of body fat
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are associated with greater incidents of
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cardiovascular disease and cancer so
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it’s always about what you’re replacing
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with nothing is a magic superfood there
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is no food it does not exist there is no
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food where you can just eat it
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indiscriminately and not account for the
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calwork value now some foods are so low
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in calories that in all practicality you
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probably don’t have to account for the
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calories something like celery which has
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about five calories of metabolizable
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energy per hundred grams I mean are you
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gonna get fat over eating celery
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probably not to get 500 calories from
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celery you’d have to eat about 10 kilos
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of it so could you in theory yes is that
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going to happen in practice probably not
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but again it’s not a what do we call a
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calorie negative food they do not exist
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it does not exist so you always have to
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ask okay if you want to get the bit
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health benefits from something like nuts
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well then maybe you’re replacing 20
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grams of your daily fat intake from say
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saturated fats beef cheeses eggs that
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sort of thing with polyunsaturated fats
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now people will argue that saturated
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fats aren’t that bad for you and that
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research has been overblown and what we
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do know is saturated fats aren’t as bad
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for you as we once thought they were but
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they don’t have cardio protective
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effects so they’re not protective at
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minimum and at worst they seem to have a
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little bit of a negative impact
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polyunsaturated fats are protective but
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only if you replace something else with
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them so keep in mind it’s always about
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what you’re replacing with all right if
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we’re just throwing a bunch of whole
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grains and nuts on top of our already
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what we eat if we’re just throwing a
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bunch of whole grains and nuts on top of
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what we already eat and not accounting
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firm in calories you’re gonna be less
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healthy but if you’re replacing some of
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your refined grains or processed grains
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or sugar with whole grains and you’re
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replacing some of your saturated fats
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those sorts of things with calories from
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nuts and your ik waiting for those
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calories then you’re getting ate some of
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those protective benefits alright guys
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