Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD is the founder of Nutrivore.com and New York Times best-selling author of Nutrivore: The Radical New Science for Getting the Nutrients You Need from the Food You Eat. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidenced-based scientific research. With Nutrivore, Dr. Sarah has created a positive and inclusive approach to dietary guidance, based in science and devoid of dogma, using nutrient density and sufficiency as its basic principles: Nourishment, not judgment.
This episode covers all the topics in Dr. Sarah’s new book, along with her recent “controversial” posts about seed oils. You don’t want to miss this! Download and listen here or find wherever you get podcasts.
Key Topics:
- The nutrivore approach to nutrition
- The prevalence of nutrient deficiencies in our modern culture
- The four most common nutrient deficiencies
- What happens to the body in a deficient state
- Why calorie-counting isn’t enough
- How to identify Whole Foods with the highest nutrients
- Surprising nutrient dense foods: iceberg lettuce, watermelon, and potatoes
- Seed oils: what the research really says
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