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- 0:21Hello everyone.
- 0:22Welcome back to this week's episode of Mocktail Minutes.
- 0:24This is Bailey and this is Brianna.
- 0:27This week I am drinking, so I guess spin Drift.
- 0:29They have like a new wine, so I found a spin soda, and this one's strawberry short cake flavor.
- 0:35It kind of reminds me of like a cocktail that you get.
- 0:38It's not terrible.
- 0:40I saw that they had new flavors, but I didn't know they had like sodas, so that's fun.
- 0:44Yeah, it's like strawberry, vanilla soda.
- 0:47It still has like the real fruit in it.
- 0:50Yeah, I like Spindrift.
- 0:52Costco has a say on them right now.
- 0:54I might have said that last week.
- 0:55I'm doing cure, which I've been on a cure kick lately, like the little electrolyte packets.
- 1:01But this time I got the berry pomegranate, which like sounded really good.
- 1:06I.
- 1:08I don't, I love that flavor.
- 1:09I don't like That's favorite one.
- 1:11It tastes like cough syrup.
- 1:12What?
- 1:13No, that's my favorite one.
- 1:14And I usually don't like pomegranate stuff.
- 1:16Yeah.
- 1:17Well, well, Victor's like, well, can I have them then?
- 1:19Because I really like them.
- 1:20I was like, sure.
- 1:21Hey.
- 1:22I don't know.
- 1:23It was really, it sounded so good to me.
- 1:24I was like, it's like pomegranate.
- 1:27It's cold.
- 1:27I don't know.
- 1:28I feel like pomegranate goes to the cold.
- 1:29Yeah.
- 1:29I didn't love it, but I mean, I'm drinking it.
- 1:31Yeah.
- 1:32I like their electrolyte amounts.
- 1:35those ones have a pretty good balance of sodium, potassium, right?
- 1:37Mm-hmm.
- 1:38Yeah.
- 1:40So I like it.
- 1:40Perfect.
- 1:41Well, today we're diving into the new pyramid.
- 1:45I dunno if it's just because we're dieticians that is just all over the place right now, and that's our algorithm.
- 1:51Or maybe that's everyone's, so if you haven't seen it, there's a new pyramid for your food.
- 1:57We had the old, my pyramid.
- 2:00We were retired then in like 2011.
- 2:03Yeah.
- 2:04Yeah.
- 2:04It's been a while.
- 2:05And then we went to MyPlate.
- 2:07Now we're going back to a pyramid, but it's an upside down pyramid.
- 2:11We actually haven't, we've accidentally kind of shared some thoughts on it, but we purposely are trying to keep each other in the dark of what our thoughts have been.
- 2:20Just so you kind of get our raw thinking.
- 2:25Raw.
- 2:25Yeah.
- 2:25Our like raw opinion.
- 2:28You know what?
- 2:28You bring up a good point because it's everywhere.
- 2:31On every single like social media platform that I have.
- 2:35But I remember like not everyone, dieticians, but I feel like we would be not dieticians if we didn't talk about it because the amount that people are upset about this, like a lot of dieticians are upset about it.
- 2:47There's a lot and like mad about it making all these videos.
- 2:51Yeah.
- 2:52I actually kinda like the pyramid.
- 2:54I kind of like it too.
- 2:55Here's the thing, the first thing people are very upset about is they're like, okay, well what happened to my plate?
- 3:00Like, you skipped a chapter.
- 3:01We've had my plate and I, yeah, we, we discontinued the pyramid in like 2011.
- 3:06We've had something called MyPlate.
- 3:08If we've never seen it, it's literally a plate and it breaks up what parts of your plate should have what on it, visual wise.
- 3:16I kind of li, I liked it was more visual than the pyramid.
- 3:19Okay.
- 3:20So like in terms of like, oh, what should your plate look like?
- 3:22But I had a lot of issues with my plate too.
- 3:24Like for example, there's no fat.
- 3:27Yeah.
- 3:27Anywhere, anywhere on the plate.
- 3:28It doesn't have good representation.
- 3:29Yeah.
- 3:29So anytime I did education, people would be like, and fat.
- 3:32I'm like, yeah, thank you for bringing that up.
- 3:34It's not on here.
- 3:34Let's talk about that.
- 3:35Like, I don't know how you leave out a macronutrient, but whatever.
- 3:37So now we're back to a pyramid and it's upside down.
- 3:41I like it.
- 3:42The only thing I don't visually like about it is I feel like it looks a little retro and it is a little confusing if you, I don't wanna say if you're a visual learner, but you know what the old pyramid was was confusing to me too.
- 3:58Mm-hmm.
- 3:59And that's funny'cause this is one thing we talked about.
- 4:01I like how it looks visually because I think it looks more aesthetically pleasing, like kind of more muted colors.
- 4:08It's kind of got like a.
- 4:10Sketch illustration, more like cartoon.
- 4:14Yeah.
- 4:14Yeah.
- 4:16So I liked that and I mean, I, I haven't really used my plate with any of my clients recently, so I'm like.
- 4:26And I think because we recommend a little bit differently than what the previous government guidelines were, where it just wasn't suitable for my audience.
- 4:35Yeah.
- 4:35And so I like that this isn't telling you exactly almost how to set up your plate.
- 4:41It's kind of giving you a little bit more wiggle room.
- 4:44And some things that I've heard dieticians kind of talk about it is I feel like a lot of'em are just like looking at this picture and going crazy.
- 4:54And some of them are like, well now we're not, they're not talking about like plant-based proteins.
- 5:00Actually, if, even if you look at the picture, there's beans on there.
- 5:04Yeah, there's beans nuts.
- 5:06There's, I'm trying to look at it.
- 5:08I guess those would be like the, there's not things like, I know on the, there's not like tofu on there, I guess.
- 5:13Yeah.
- 5:14And then these come up every five years.
- 5:17So like the last time this was done, it was 2020 to 2025.
- 5:20I think the world was like burning.
- 5:22So I don't know if anyone really, really noticed, but there was like, as soon as it pops up, like there, there's a lot of plant-based proteins on there.
- 5:31Like I think tofu is on the first page.
- 5:33Like the whole page is like the background.
- 5:35It's like a tofu.
- 5:36Oh.
- 5:36Like let's also point out this pyramid doesn't have every other food.
- 5:39Like this is just kind of like a snapshot.
- 5:43I mean, there's what maybe.
- 5:4420, 30 different foods on here.
- 5:47There's way more foods and that in the world.
- 5:48I feel like this is just trying to represent some different areas, and it's split kind of in third, so you have protein, dairy, and fats on one side.
- 5:57Mm-hmm.
- 5:58Then you have veggies and fruits, and then kind of like the tip of the triangle, but it's upside down is your whole brain.
- 6:06Mm-hmm.
- 6:07So it kind of splits it up like that.
- 6:09So one thing people talk about is plant-based protein.
- 6:12I don't think it's a big concern.
- 6:13I think there should be more emphasis on animal protein.
- 6:16I mean, you're gonna get more bang for your buck there.
- 6:19It's gonna be a complete animal source.
- 6:21And the other thing is they did increase the recommendations for protein to be, I think it's 0.54 to 0.73 grams per pound.
- 6:32Mm-hmm.
- 6:32Which is higher than what it previously was.
- 6:34So a lot of people are like, oh, that's too high.
- 6:36That's still lower than what I recommend for clients, to be honest.
- 6:40For most of mine.
- 6:40Yeah.
- 6:41And it still falls within the whole, like, you know, certain amount of percentage of Cal, of your overall calories is coming from protein.
- 6:50Mm-hmm.
- 6:50It still falls within that, and I do that all the time when I'm doing it at the hospital because I'm always recommending higher protein and sometimes the protein looks like high.
- 6:58I'm like, oh my gosh, someone's gonna say something.
- 7:00Let me look.
- 7:00And I'm calculating it.
- 7:01I'm like, oh, still 20% of their overall calories like appropriate.
- 7:05Our previous protein recommendations were very low, and we've been saying for a long time, like research shows we need higher.
- 7:13It just takes a very long time until that research is translated into recommendations.
- 7:19So I don't know why a lot of dieticians are living in the Stone Age about it, like it's fine.
- 7:26We, we'll be okay.
- 7:27We'll be okay.
- 7:28And the difference too is like you have these recommendations and these guidelines and whatever, but then also there's like an application side of it.
- 7:35And for me, I know when I'm recommending people have a little bit higher protein, they feel better, they have better blood sugar balance.
- 7:42Like they're more satiated, they're eating less junk food.
- 7:45Like that's the goal.
- 7:46Mm-hmm.
- 7:46So I'm gonna always, I'm never gonna be like, oh, only eat 0.08 gram per kilogram of protein.
- 7:52That's crazy.
- 7:53Yeah.
- 7:55I like that they talked about it in per pounds, where they usually talk about it in per kilogram because mm-hmm.
- 7:59I mean here we, we use pounds.
- 8:02Yeah.
- 8:02Yeah.
- 8:03We use sense.
- 8:04That's another thing.
- 8:05A lot of people I broke up was like, the average consumer doesn't know what they're looking at.
- 8:09I think that's wrong.
- 8:11I think maybe it's because maybe we have smarter people that we work with.
- 8:14I don't know, but I think any dietician saying that's kind of doing a disservice to their own clients because mm-hmm.
- 8:22I think I could show this to any one of my clients and they could be like, there's steak, there's cheese, there's chicken, there's salmon, there's eggs, there's broccoli, there's carrots, there's tomatoes, there's berries, there's some sourdough bread.
- 8:34Like yeah.
- 8:35I don't think that's that hard to understand.
- 8:38First of all, the old pyramid, if, if you look at the bottom of it at the grains part, there's just different loaves of bread, different colors.
- 8:45Yeah.
- 8:46I'm like, yeah.
- 8:47And even if you think about this pyramid compared to.
- 8:50MyPlate, I guess it's a little bit more'cause there's more things there.
- 8:54Mm-hmm.
- 8:55But I mean, there wasn't a lot like MyPlate, it said words, it was like, and it divided the plates and it said whole grains, which, and it didn't even say and starches, which I feel like is something you need to Okay.
- 9:10Because, so the old recommendations.
- 9:12Two, it talked about whole grains and refined grains.
- 9:16Mm-hmm.
- 9:16The new pyramid is just whole grains.
- 9:18Just whole grains.
- 9:19Like it's wanting you to prioritize a bad thing.
- 9:23Right.
- 9:23I don't think it's a bad thing either, and I really like that they started to split up.
- 9:29The types of carbs because for example, again, my plate, it's like, okay, this part of your plate should be whole grains and or starches.
- 9:36And then you're trying to explain the difference between like, yes, these are beans and bread are both carbs, but they're different in this way.
- 9:41And that when you're looking at the new pyramid, it's just like, oh, beans are part of the things that we should prioritize.
- 9:46And the loaf of bread, which most people understand as mm-hmm.
- 9:50You know, grains is something that you do minimally.
- 9:55Mm-hmm.
- 9:55And they are.
- 9:56Pushing true sourdough bread, which I thought was interesting.
- 10:01But yes, they talk about fermented foods mm-hmm.
- 10:04And health, which I thought was interesting.
- 10:06Yes.
- 10:06A bigger push on gut health.
- 10:08Mm-hmm.
- 10:09And so I, I don't think the average person would be confused looking at this.
- 10:15And then our role as a dietician, or your dietician is to help you set up your plate.
- 10:21Yeah.
- 10:22So you don't necessarily.
- 10:24I need a specific picture of a plate, I don't think, mm-hmm.
- 10:29I think you can be intellectual and kind of figure out what you need, what is it or, or have someone help you figure out what you need.
- 10:35So that's another thing.
- 10:36People are kind of up in up arms about.
- 10:41When I'm looking at it in terms of like US preaching like protein, healthy fat, fiber, and when I'm looking at the top of the pyramid, those are all foods.
- 10:49It has prioritized.
- 10:50Yeah.
- 10:50So I'm like, if you're looking at the pyramid and you're thinking, okay, I wanna prioritize the foods I see up top it is that already balance of protein, healthy, fat, and fiber.
- 10:59Yeah.
- 10:59Which I think is helpful.
- 11:01So, and then like speaking of the fat, the butter is another thing everyone's freaking out about.
- 11:06The butter is, we're looking at this off a pyramid type thing where it's bigger, an upside down pyramid, bigger at the top, lower at the bottom.
- 11:15Well then you can see that butter actually is not closer to the top.
- 11:21It's in the, it's closer to the bottom.
- 11:23Closer to the bottom.
- 11:24When we're looking at the fat sources, I, I can't hearing, they do still recommend to decrease saturated fat.
- 11:31Mm-hmm.
- 11:31Which is probably why butter is below the olive oil.
- 11:34Below olive oil, and I think there's olives.
- 11:38Oh no.
- 11:39It's just olive oil on there.
- 11:40People, people keep calling this in the, in the dietician community, and maybe it's just the dietician pages I'm part of, but the keto cone, which I don't agree with because fruit is at the top.
- 11:52Yes.
- 11:53Like you guys are so upset.
- 11:55They're very upset about the red meat, the cheese and the butter.
- 11:58And I think we know now our, you know, high cholesterol and stuff like that.
- 12:05It has a lot more to do with a lot of these highly refined.
- 12:09You know, grains, but I think that's the problem is yeah, a lot.
- 12:13Don't know that.
- 12:15Or they don't want to.
- 12:17This is my caveat, okay?
- 12:18We have got to, as professionals, not get so married to the things that we've learned, like you're supposed to evolve, okay?
- 12:26Like if you were talking to us 40 years ago, the dietician community thought like trans fat was the best fat you could ever eat.
- 12:34Don't eat anything else.
- 12:35We love it.
- 12:36It's not bad for you, blah, blah, blah.
- 12:37Now, fast forward, it's not even allowed in our food anymore because we're like, holy crap is causing cancer.
- 12:42That change in the research, like people had to allow for it.
- 12:45So people being very upset by like saturated fat causes like heart disease and non-nutritive sweeteners are totally safe.
- 12:52But like we have research coming up that's like, maybe we were wrong, maybe we were wrong, maybe we were wrong.
- 12:57We have to be okay with that change.
- 12:58Like it's not anything personal.
- 13:00Like if you've been a dietician for 20 years and you've been giving heart healthy diets and telling people, don't eat red meat except for one time a week, it's okay to change and be like, oh, this is the newer recommendations.
- 13:11This is what I'm seeing.
- 13:12The butter has got people pissed off, which again, I don't think you should go be eating a stick of butter like.
- 13:18And yes, there's a picture of a stick of butter, but there's also a picture of like a whole chicken.
- 13:23Yeah.
- 13:23On here you're not eating a whole chicken head of meals.
- 13:26They're also not eating a whole head of broccoli and like four carrots that's on there.
- 13:30Yes.
- 13:31So, but the, the, the dietary recommendations still have no more than 10% of your daily calories from saturated fat.
- 13:38So for a lot of people, that's like between 20 and 25 grams of.
- 13:43Saturated fat, not total fat, saturated fat.
- 13:46And that is confusing to people because they are doing a big push for whole fat dairy, which.
- 13:52I'm here for.
- 13:53Awesome.
- 13:53Yeah.
- 13:54Maybe not you'cause you're like, I don't know.
- 13:56I don't really like eat dairy, but I Dairy No, I tell people, yeah, I tell people If you can tolerate dairy, do dairy.
- 14:02Yeah.
- 14:02If I could eat cottage cheese and whole milk, I would do it.
- 14:05'Cause we went through the almond milk graze.
- 14:07Went through the oat milk graze.
- 14:08I'm like, if you can tolerate it, I would rather you just do milk.
- 14:13I get, and so I still think that's a good one.
- 14:17I think that's what's, I think that's what's confusing people though, is they're saying like two to four servings of whole fat dairy a day, but still keep 10% of your daily calorie saturated fat.
- 14:27But okay, so I do see telling people to do whole fat dairy for every serving, and then also not being afraid of like olive oil and healthy fats.
- 14:34We're going to probably increase our consumption of saturated fat.
- 14:39So for me, I'm like, let's do more research to see.
- 14:43What is a better guideline?
- 14:44Maybe it doesn't need to be as low as 10%.
- 14:46And also just like there's different types of carbs.
- 14:49There's different types of the like.
- 14:50Yes.
- 14:51I think when we first made the guidelines, it was very much like limited saturated fat from like fried foods.
- 14:57Mm-hmm.
- 14:58Which it's not the same.
- 14:59Yes.
- 14:59As like I'm having red meat as opposed to having like fried food.
- 15:05Like it's, they're different in terms of health, so that probably needs to change, but.
- 15:11Still whatever.
- 15:12I don't think it's that confusing because in terms of fat, no one was listening anyways.
- 15:17True.
- 15:18Like now we're at least synthesizing good sources of fat.
- 15:22Mm-hmm.
- 15:22And then the other part is the fiber.
- 15:24People are like, there's not enough fiber here.
- 15:25They don't talk about fiber.
- 15:27I couldn't find where they were like at least 25 grams of fiber.
- 15:30That's the recommendation.
- 15:31I couldn't either.
- 15:32Like a minimum, they do say three servings vegetables, two servings for which is actually lower.
- 15:39Like if you.
- 15:41Look at the old pyramid.
- 15:42I know I'm kind of skipping old to new pyramid, and yes, we have my plate in between, but like the old pyramid had two to four servings.
- 15:49Mm-hmm.
- 15:50Of fruit, three to five of vegetables, so it was actually higher.
- 15:53This is one thing I think the servings could be higher.
- 15:56I do too, for fruits and vegetables and the argument that they're not promoting fiber, I mean.
- 16:03Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, beans, nuts.
- 16:07They're all on pyramid.
- 16:09Yeah.
- 16:10And they all give you fiber.
- 16:11So I also really like that they, like, they have in their recommendations, they say like you in their vegetables and stuff, they, they separate starchy.
- 16:27And whole grains.
- 16:28They are considering starchy vegetables and like, you know, beans and stuff as part of vegetable recommendations.
- 16:35Yep.
- 16:35Instead of the grains recommendations, which I think is really important, that is going to inherently make people increase fiber.
- 16:41Yes.
- 16:42And so like the whole grain recommendations are two to four servings per day.
- 16:47Yeah.
- 16:48Of full brains.
- 16:49I saw someone panicking, someone panicking about this, and I was like, you guys, that's like.
- 16:55And I think Megan even put something out, like oatmeal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and like you're within your gut, like you don't, yeah, you can.
- 17:03You're getting carbs.
- 17:04Other places, guys like Yes.
- 17:06It's just the starches.
- 17:07I don't know if we need to be having, what was the old recommendations?
- 17:10Like insane you said like six 11.
- 17:13So the old pyramid.
- 17:16Maybe we should have looked at the MyPlate too, but it's hard to actually find what the MyPlate pyramid, the is really wordy.
- 17:22It's like 135 pages.
- 17:24Yes.
- 17:24The old pyramid, old, old one was six to 11.
- 17:29No, we don't need to be having 11 servings of bread.
- 17:32Yeah.
- 17:32And it listed like bread, cereal, rice.
- 17:34So I like how this one is empathizing where the whole grains and it's taking off the focus that we're refined.
- 17:40So something in here is they don't recommend added sugars.
- 17:43They have no added sugar.
- 17:46Recommendations.
- 17:47Yeah.
- 17:47People are mad about that.
- 17:48I'm like, I don't think we need to recommend anyone to go eat a brownie.
- 17:52We're gonna go eat a a brownie if you wanna brownie.
- 17:54No.
- 17:54And you know what else I really liked is there is a caveat for if you're gonna have,'cause the old recommendations were like a certain amount of, your percentage of calories.
- 18:03First of all, let's talk about confusing.
- 18:05That's confusing.
- 18:06Most people don't even know how many calories they actually Yeah.
- 18:08I'm like, what now?
- 18:10It's saying when you're selecting a food.
- 18:13Like it shouldn't.
- 18:14It should have less than five grams of added sugar per gram.
- 18:19And then it gives specific servings and like if the serving size is larger,'cause you know, food labels like to do that.
- 18:24It says less than 2.5.
- 18:25When I'm thinking about the consumer, I can turn around and look like, turn the food around, look at the nutrition label and see does that meet that?
- 18:32If not, oh, I know that's probably not appropriate.
- 18:35That makes sense to me.
- 18:36And I think that's way more guidance.
- 18:37We never had that before and that's, I mean, that's a guidance we've been giving people, like choose items that have less than five grams of added sugar pergram.
- 18:45Mm-hmm.
- 18:45Because that's something you can apply.
- 18:48I don't know what, yes.
- 18:49I don't know why we're upset about the sugar.
- 18:50They also talk about non nutritive sweeteners.
- 18:53Yes, they do.
- 18:54And they say limit that and it's a good thing.
- 18:57I think it's a good thing.
- 18:58Me too.
- 18:59I'm like, and they also say to limit fruit juice, which I think is a great thing because previously, like we've allowed fruit juice to be counted as a fruit serving.
- 19:08Not the same.
- 19:09It's not the same.
- 19:09It doesn't have the fiber.
- 19:11It's not great for your blood sugar.
- 19:13It's a ton of added sugar too.
- 19:16No, no.
- 19:18I don't know.
- 19:20I'm trying to look at the, my, I think we're more pro pyramid than, oh yeah, we are.
- 19:23And I like the new guidelines, and this is, you know, devil's advocate.
- 19:27Everyone's like, oh, well they never, even, people never even abide by them anyways, I think.
- 19:33I mean, yeah, but.
- 19:34I think these are a little bit easier to abide by.
- 19:36I also think that if they, if you start abiding by the dietary guidelines, it's better than our previous ones.
- 19:44Maybe not the vegetables and stuff, but in terms of like the grains, I don't think we ever should have been allowing people to have a, like telling people you need.
- 19:53This amount of grains, like even in traditional carb counting for diabetes, which I don't do ever,'cause I think it's ridiculous.
- 19:59It's something like, you can have eight servings.
- 20:02I'm like, what are you talking about?
- 20:03Like what person with diabetes needs 400 grams of carbs a day?
- 20:08And they're sedentary.
- 20:09Mm-hmm.
- 20:09And they don't move.
- 20:10Mm-hmm.
- 20:11No.
- 20:12We need to change.
- 20:13Here's the thing is like at this point, let's just throw spaghetti at the wall and see what happens, because clearly the trajectory of our health is not great.
- 20:21Yes.
- 20:21You know, few things, you know, I think a lot of healthcare professionals, dieticians included, are really stuck almost in the idea of we need to make everyone happy'cause we don't wanna hurt feelings and we don't wanna make people to make.
- 20:36I feel like this is hard and I, I've also been there where I'm like, I don't wanna push you too much.
- 20:42I don't want you to feel like it's too hard.
- 20:45Like I want you to be happy with me.
- 20:46But at the same time, that's not what gets you change in results.
- 20:50Yeah.
- 20:50So I think that's been a learning curve for me where it's okay if it's not exactly what you want, if it's not exactly what's gonna work.
- 21:00This gives.
- 21:01More flexibility.
- 21:03Mm-hmm.
- 21:03And we are trying too hard to make everyone happy and just make something that it isn't like.
- 21:10Mm-hmm.
- 21:12The argument of the whole push for this too has been eat real foods.
- 21:17Like that's their advertising around it.
- 21:19Like the website to it is real food gov.
- 21:22Mm-hmm.
- 21:23And we talked a little bit about this before we recorded, but.
- 21:27I think some of it is political, where like people are are just against our fk.
- 21:31Yeah.
- 21:31And we're not trying to get political here.
- 21:33Like we'll keep our views aside, but at the end of the day, why are we mad about pushing real food and why are we being unintelligent or ignorant when we're like, what even is real suit?
- 21:47Like the amount of times I've heard this, this week, I'm like, yeah.
- 21:51That sounds stupid.
- 21:52We're just being silly.
- 21:52Like we're being silly.
- 21:53Like you said.
- 21:54At the end of the day, we need to not be concerned about hurting people's feelings.
- 21:58We're the professional and we live in a country where like diet related health diseases are like the leading cause of death.
- 22:06I need people in this industry to be like, yes.
- 22:10There is such thing as not real food.
- 22:12Okay.
- 22:12Like, yes, you can look at an apple and you can look at a really highly processed, I can go get that off a tree.
- 22:18Yes.
- 22:18Like can you, is it in nature in that form?
- 22:20Like, and it's not, and it's not saying processed foods don't have a place, but like the really highly processed foods, like I think we can all agree, we like, let's not be dumb about it.
- 22:31Come on.
- 22:31You know what I mean?
- 22:32Like there's no graham crackers growing on a treat.
- 22:35Not to say that you should only eat stuff that you can go get off a tree.
- 22:39Like that's not a, we're saying.
- 22:40Right.
- 22:40I'm not out Apple and berry picking every day for my family.
- 22:44I'm not out like hog hunting and whatnot.
- 22:49Yeah, but I'm I'll.
- 22:52Goodbye.
- 22:53Berries and apples that someone else, probably somebody else else's in for me.
- 22:56Yeah.
- 22:57Or guess what?
- 22:59If you look into the website, real food dot cov, and if you scroll down, they have like a F AQ section and there's a question that says, what does real food mean?
- 23:10And they say eating real food means choosing foods that are whole or.
- 23:15Minimally processed and recognized as food.
- 23:18Yeah, these are prepared a few ingredients without added sugars, industrial oils, artificial flavors, or preservatives.
- 23:26Yeah, I think this is great, and there's again, a lot of dieticians that are like, oh, we're freaking out about oils and oils are fine.
- 23:33I'm like, you know what?
- 23:35I have people that do better all the time when we reduce seed oils.
- 23:40Not that I am completely cutting them out.
- 23:43But a reduction people, reduction of the added sugar, reduction of like non, like just trying to eat more whole foods and again.
- 23:54I know there's a big argument of like, well, not everyone has access to that.
- 23:57And Yes, that is true.
- 23:59It's one reason why I do like that they included canned and frozen.
- 24:03Yes.
- 24:04That was another argument that I saw.
- 24:06Mm-hmm.
- 24:07That one of the dieticians had posted.
- 24:09They're like, well, frozen is still good for you.
- 24:11Well, guess what?
- 24:12If you look at it, it says they have like a whole PDF, it's like nine pages that breaks everything down.
- 24:19Mm-hmm.
- 24:19When they talk about.
- 24:21Fruits and vegetables.
- 24:22They actually say frozen, dried, or canned vegetables are fruits.
- 24:27But no, or very limited outta sugars can also be good options.
- 24:31Yeah, and they even put apart if preferred flavor with salt spices ands.
- 24:36This is another thing people like, oh, or emphasizing too much sodium.
- 24:40I don't think so.
- 24:42No.
- 24:42They have a sodium section where it talks about recommendations and it kind of just emphasizes.
- 24:48To reduce highly processed foods that are high in sodium.
- 24:50I agree.
- 24:51That's actually what I tell my clients.
- 24:53Yeah.
- 24:54The other thing that I think we should pay attention to is these types of guidelines really drive other policy, like the school lunch program, stuff like that.
- 25:03Yes.
- 25:03Unless you have worked behind the scenes in that, I don't think you really understand how complicated that program is like.
- 25:10You can't just be like, oh, we have apples and peanut butter as a snack for kids that doesn't meet the guidelines because you don't have a grain in it.
- 25:18So instead of apples and peanut butter, they'll give kids graham crackers or goldfish, and it's like, mm-hmm.
- 25:23Well now we're not modeling to kids that the whole food options are better.
- 25:27Simply because we're trying to meet guidelines.
- 25:28And again, that's all like, you know, political and policy.
- 25:31But I think really understanding when we're, it's just how it is.
- 25:34Yeah.
- 25:34When we're saying like limit added sugar, limit this, limit that, that's gonna drive kids who are receiving school lunch to having a more whole food diet, which is a good thing.
- 25:47The other part, so we talked a little bit about like vegetarian vegans.
- 25:51So in the PDF too, I forgot about this.
- 25:53Yeah.
- 25:54They have a section for vegetarians and vegans.
- 25:58Yeah.
- 25:58And it talks about consuming dairy, eggs, beans, nuts, lentils, legumes, nuts, seeds, tofu, Tempe.
- 26:05And they do talk about limiting processed vegan and vegetarian foods.
- 26:08Yeah.
- 26:09Again, not a bad thing.
- 26:11So there is a category foods for them.
- 26:14Yes.
- 26:14And that was, that was the other thing I heard a lot about was like, wow, there's not a lot of info.
- 26:19And if you look at this, they have the, you know, infant and toddlers, they have five to 10, 11 to 18, young adulthood, pregnant women, lactating women, older adults, individuals with chronic disease, vegetarian vegans, those, those types of recommendations.
- 26:32They've been always for those people.
- 26:34When I look at this, I'm like, 10 pages is digestible.
- 26:39Yes, it's, I know when I'm reading, it's digestible.
- 26:42It's straight to the point.
- 26:44It's, you know, pointing out people with chronic disease that you may need to like work with someone.
- 26:49The guidelines may need to be tweaked.
- 26:50Older adults, you need to focus on vitamin D and vitamin B, you know, lactating women, you need a lot of omega threes.
- 26:56It just gives the bullet points and then it's.
- 26:59Tells you to work with your healthcare professional, which I think is the point when I look at some of the old ones, I'm lost and I'm a nutrition professional.
- 27:08I'm like 135 pages, like taking notes.
- 27:12You know how long I had to scroll to figure out what the 2020 to 2025 guidelines for whole grains were.
- 27:17And I already knew it was around this simply because I know the other guidelines.
- 27:21It's literally on page 138 who paying attention that long.
- 27:26Like that's what irritates me is like.
- 27:28I think there's just enough information.
- 27:30P the, mm-hmm.
- 27:31The normal average person who's not a nutrition professional does not wanna read 164 pages.
- 27:36They just wanna say, gimme like the details, the lowdown, like, what do I need to be looking for?
- 27:42Mm-hmm.
- 27:42And maybe it is feeding into, because I know RFK is kind of pushing for, okay, I'm not trying to get political.
- 27:48I think he has some great ideas.
- 27:51I think sometimes he's over the top.
- 27:53I think sometimes we're not looking at the big picture.
- 27:56But I also know that I don't understand the big picture.
- 28:00I'm very disconnected from the news and media, unless there is something specific I want to look into.
- 28:08Then I look, I don't watch the news.
- 28:09I don't follow any broadcasting, nothing.
- 28:12It stresses me out.
- 28:13Yeah.
- 28:14I, if I wanna know, I'm gonna go find out.
- 28:16I don't need to shove down my throat and I, so I think there's a lot of pieces to it.
- 28:21One thing he's really pushing, well talking about is.
- 28:25Expanding education for doctors.
- 28:28Mm-hmm.
- 28:28To have more nutrition, pros and cons to it.
- 28:31Pros and cons.
- 28:32I mean, they, they're already in school such a long time and everyone's like, schooling should never stop.
- 28:37It doesn't.
- 28:38Mm-hmm.
- 28:38Like, again, do your research.
- 28:39Dieticians, we have ce we have to always keep up with.
- 28:43Continuing education doctors, they have, I don't think they're called te.
- 28:48I think they're called something different, but they also have to continue with their education.
- 28:52But in terms of what a doctor does, I'm like, I kind of need them to know other things.
- 28:57Yes.
- 28:58Like I'm not going to treat you for tuberculosis.
- 29:03No.
- 29:04I guess we're not really treating, I dunno why that came to mind.
- 29:08I mean, doctors do treat for it.
- 29:10Yes.
- 29:10I think it's good that they should know, I'm not gonna treat you for meningitis.
- 29:14Maybe that's a better, the thing is, is there has to be change in the way our healthcare system is set up and in insurance.
- 29:20Because right now doctors have like 20 minutes with people.
- 29:23They really need that time to talk about, this is your disease, this is the medication you're on, this is what to watch out for.
- 29:29Okay.
- 29:29Like, they don't really have a ton of time to be like, let me walk you through this.
- 29:33While there is a healthcare professional that does that, it's called a dietician.
- 29:38Mm-hmm.
- 29:39So hopefully that changes.
- 29:40But again, I'm, I'm all for like yeah.
- 29:42More people in the medical field knowing about nutrition.
- 29:44Yeah, absolutely.
- 29:45I don't think it's a bad thing, but I also think like, this is our whole job.
- 29:50Let's literalize this.
- 29:51We have multiple degrees in it.
- 29:53Yes.
- 29:54And I think we are being utilized more and I think especially with like, we both work with Nourish.
- 29:59Mm-hmm.
- 30:00We have clients all the time with Nourish.
- 30:02We, I mean, we talk about it like if we turn our, allow new clients on, I'll get four new people to sign up.
- 30:09So it's, yeah.
- 30:10There's people, I think people are more aware that we exist in what we do.
- 30:14We're think there's more accessible too.
- 30:17Yes.
- 30:18'Cause even now, like people still don't always know that, oh, hey, you can get.
- 30:26Your dietician services covered?
- 30:28Yeah, like insurance will cover it.
- 30:30It's not a normal thing, but it's, but it's also worth your cash too, I promise.
- 30:34We're you guys I've never had anyone upset about paying cash.
- 30:38No.
- 30:38I used to only do cash.
- 30:39We both only did cash before.
- 30:41Mm-hmm.
- 30:42Because it's too difficult.
- 30:43There's so, it's so difficult to accept insurance as a dietician on your own.
- 30:47Mm-hmm.
- 30:47It's like half the time you don't even get paid.
- 30:49Yeah.
- 30:49Like insurance companies are not even writing you a check.
- 30:51You're working for free, so, you know, but.
- 30:55We're becoming more accessible.
- 30:57I'm hoping that more people realize that we're more useful.
- 31:02We could work together with doctors, like we know what we're doing.
- 31:05And in terms of, you know, politics, I don't wanna make it seem like we just dunno anything that's going on.
- 31:11Like, I know at least if you go through school, like, you know the politics mm-hmm.
- 31:15It's a huge reason why I was like, I'm never gonna be work on policy because what?
- 31:21Yeah.
- 31:21It's a mess.
- 31:22Like that's a class you have to take to be a dietician.
- 31:24There's also, yeah, for my program, like one of the rotations, like was working with the school, so we have to see the backend.
- 31:32Mm-hmm.
- 31:33Before, just like as a general announcement or a nutrition or anything like before you get all up in arms about how much the government is against you, how much America sucks because of our food, how much the school system sucks because of their lunches.
- 31:49Mm-hmm.
- 31:50I just wanna say.
- 31:52I truly don't think that the government is trying to kill us.
- 31:58I don't either.
- 31:58I think we're doing the best we can.
- 32:00Mm-hmm.
- 32:01And been like, I've worked for a daycare previously.
- 32:04Those meals look a lot different than what I feed my son.
- 32:08Yeah.
- 32:08But number one, we had to follow certain guidelines because they had government assistance.
- 32:13Mm-hmm.
- 32:13Number two, it's a lot different.
- 32:17Feeding 85 kids.
- 32:21Versus one or two kids at home.
- 32:22Yes.
- 32:23Yes.
- 32:25Not to say that those 85 kids don't deserve to have an apple and they got apples, but you know what?
- 32:32Some days they had graham crackers and milk and, and I'm always gonna be for those programs because sometimes those are the only meals kids are getting.
- 32:40Yes.
- 32:41But there's a, like, I think there's a way we can.
- 32:44We can make those programs work without being like, here's your little Debbie.
- 32:49Like, we never gave them Twinkies.
- 32:51No, we never gave'em Twinkies.
- 32:52No.
- 32:53That wasn't a lot.
- 32:53And then like, we had kids coming in, like they would bring Cheetos from home.
- 32:58Yeah.
- 32:58So, and we're like making them eggs and biscuits.
- 33:01Yeah.
- 33:02They're not homemade biscuits.
- 33:03They're like store brand biscuits.
- 33:04But I, I just buy regular biscuits.
- 33:08So Little Debbie's might've stopped in 2000.
- 33:10I don't know.
- 33:11It used to be the Wild West out there with sugar.
- 33:14Oh my gosh, yes.
- 33:16I, I think since I've like been adulting, I have never bought like a box of little Debbie's anything.
- 33:24When you were in high school, did they allow sodas?
- 33:27Yes.
- 33:28They still do.
- 33:29Okay.
- 33:29Oh, you know, that might be a state thing.
- 33:32I'm, I swear they still do.
- 33:34Yeah.
- 33:34It might be a state thing because I know in California they don't, in Texas, they don't.
- 33:40Actually in Texas they didn't, and then they decided they did and then they said they didn't again, just'cause they wanted a new political party to take claim.
- 33:47Yeah.
- 33:48It was dumb, but I'm like 90% sure they still have sodas in school.
- 33:54Yeah.
- 33:54So the long story short is there is a lot that goes into these guidelines.
- 34:00Yes.
- 34:01They're driven by politics.
- 34:02Yes.
- 34:02They're driven by a lot of things.
- 34:04That's how we're set up.
- 34:06We are always aiming to bring the new information to you to help you better improve your health or following research or allowing it to evolve.
- 34:15And we're hoping that guidelines like these make government programs better.
- 34:19Like that's the goal.
- 34:21Mm-hmm.
- 34:21At the end of the day.
- 34:22And I think both sides should be okay with that.
- 34:25Yeah.
- 34:26I'm excited for these new guidelines too.
- 34:29I think.
- 34:30We have some great potential coming in our world.
- 34:34Mm-hmm.
- 34:35Time will always tell.
- 34:37None of us can predict the future.
- 34:39Just have an open mind.
- 34:41Yeah.
- 34:42Again, don't be so weird about things.
- 34:44I think it's just gonna a message from now on, like stop making things weird.
- 34:48Don't, don't be weird eating real foods, like when someone tells you to eat real foods, it's not a hidden message.
- 34:53It's pretty straightforward.
- 34:55That is one of my biggest pet pees is when I will say something and people are like, what do you mean?
- 34:59I'm like, what do you mean by that?
- 35:01What?
- 35:01What do you mean what I mean?
- 35:01Exactly what I said.
- 35:02Just take it at face value.
- 35:04I don't mean anything secretive.
- 35:07We're saying to eat real foods.
- 35:09Don't think too much in depth about that.
- 35:11Yes.
- 35:12And, and lastly, dieticians are not being paid by Big Pharma No.
- 35:16Or big food?
- 35:18We are not.
- 35:18I think the average dietician, salaried America is like 48,000.
- 35:22All right.
- 35:22It's not us guys.
- 35:23We are not, I'm not rolling in.
- 35:27We're not.
- 35:28I am.
- 35:28They're not sending me any sort of check, I tell you that.
- 35:31No, and that's like when I talk about GLP and everything, like I, I'll tell you what I.
- 35:37I have nothing to do with prescribing a GLP one.
- 35:39I make no money off a GLP one.
- 35:41I make no money off a big pharma.
- 35:43We cannot legally prescribe anything.
- 35:45We can't even diagnose you with diabetes if we, clearly you are diabetic.
- 35:50I know you have diabetes.
- 35:51I cannot do it.
- 35:51Yeah.
- 35:52We are allowed to provide medical nutrition therapy for a diagnosis that your doctor has given.
- 35:59We do not diagnose no matter what we see, so we don't get any benefit from anything.
- 36:05Yes.
- 36:06We're just here to help you interpret, here's what's being recommended.
- 36:12Here's what we have found to work.
- 36:14Here's what we have learned.
- 36:15We kind of take it all and mesh it together.
- 36:18Mm-hmm.
- 36:19Yeah, because it's important.
- 36:21But don't overthink it.
- 36:23Don't overthink it.
- 36:24Just don't be so weird.
- 36:25Eat real foods and just like eat an apple.
- 36:28Yeah.
- 36:28Like.
- 36:29Get a whole, looks like a fake apple, a whole food, something, you know, I don't, yeah, just add some color.
- 36:38Yeah.
- 36:38Eat real foods.
- 36:39Eat your protein, fat, and fiber.
- 36:42Yes.
- 36:43Literally that's like what this pyramid looks like.
- 36:45Hmm.
- 36:47Yeah.
- 36:48So, yeah, and a lot of what we know we learned, it kind of was piloted from Megan, who we both have worked with.
- 36:56So, no, maybe she really has just been ahead of her time this whole time and she got us on board and yeah, here we're, I mean this, this was not a huge shock to me, I guess this pyramid.
- 37:09Yeah, the recommendation is I did not see anything absurd.
- 37:14Oh, the other thing was.
- 37:16Were like, they have a picture of rice and beans, but then they have a picture of rice.
- 37:19I don't think the bottom picture is rice.
- 37:22I think it's, it's like oatmeal.
- 37:23I think it's an oatmeal, which was my only thing, and I was like, ah.
- 37:25I kind of like oatmeal because it has so much fiber, but it's fine.
- 37:29But it's still a grain.
- 37:30It's grain.
- 37:30Yeah, it's still a grain, but then like rice would be a grain, so I can see that.
- 37:34Yeah.
- 37:34Rice is also green, but it's kind of like in between.
- 37:39I think they were trying to include plant sources of protein by saying rice and beans makes a complete protein.
- 37:45Yes.
- 37:45Make it so that's a caring form of protein.
- 37:49I'm not sure.
- 37:50I dunno.
- 37:51Yeah, it's, and there's a lot to say like when you work with dieticians that really follow,'cause there's a lot of dieticians that like, you'll see a patient one time in your whole life and never again.
- 38:03When you're working with people and you're following them and you're seeing like.
- 38:06Labs are getting better and all this stuff is getting better based on the recommendations you're giving them, you start to kind of see like, okay, I don't think it's appropriate that I tell you to eat six more servings of grains a day.
- 38:17I think we're good.
- 38:18That is correct.
- 38:19So there's, you know what's so funny?
- 38:21Side note on the website, if you scroll down there's like little cards and they look like, it looks like, remind me of like Cards Against Humanity.
- 38:30It's Cards Against Humanity.
- 38:32I saw that.
- 38:32I was like, who?
- 38:33What Millennial.
- 38:35Oh yeah.
- 38:36Did that.
- 38:36I dunno.
- 38:37I even joke.
- 38:38Eat real apple or maybe eat real bread.
- 38:40Yeah.
- 38:41Daily servings.
- 38:43Eat real butter.
- 38:45Eat real apples.
- 38:46Oh, that's funny.
- 38:47You can just like keep scrolling and it's giving you examples of what real food is.
- 38:51Eat real lettuce, eat real potatoes.
- 38:54We're here.
- 38:54We're here guys.
- 38:55We'll if you're confused, we got you.
- 39:00Hopefully this didn't compete anymore.
- 39:01But also like, don't be confused.
- 39:04Take this very straightforward.
- 39:05I think that's what they were trying to achieve.
- 39:07Mm-hmm.
- 39:07And to me they did.
- 39:09I dunno.
- 39:10But that's our lowdown on the new food period.
- 39:13And honestly, like, again, I don't think the average consumer is studying, was studying MyPlate, was studying the old pyramid is going to use this new pyramid every day.
- 39:25When I, when use, when I had to use my plate, which I always started off with.
- 39:30I don't love this, but, we'll, I'll, we'll, we'll make changes.
- 39:34Check it out anytime.
- 39:35I'm like, have you ever seen this before?
- 39:3798% of the time people are like, no.
- 39:40Or, yeah.
- 39:41Or they're like, I've heard of it.
- 39:43So, or they still thought we used the food pyramid, so I'm sorry, my plate.
- 39:47I don't feel like you had your time.
- 39:49You probably could have been made better, but it's all right.
- 39:52You know it's gonna be okay.
- 39:54We're getting caught up on weird things, like people are like, they missed my plate.
- 39:58I'm like, I don't think it matters.
- 40:00Yeah.
- 40:01I think we're comparing it a lot to the old pyramid because it's a pyramid, you know, like mm-hmm.
- 40:05We're having two different pyramids now.
- 40:07One is upside down, pushing more whole foods a keto cone.
- 40:12It's not a keto cone.
- 40:14Okay.
- 40:14There's fruit at the top at all.
- 40:16I'm actually very confused by that.
- 40:19Worried about certain dieticians.
- 40:22I started unfollowing all of them that were saying silly things like that.
- 40:27I was like, yeah, we don't, we don't vibe the same.
- 40:30That's okay.
- 40:31Mm-hmm.
- 40:32Exactly.
- 40:33And that's okay.
- 40:34That's why finding a dietician is like finding a therapist.
- 40:37You're not gonna vibe with all of them.
- 40:39Mm-hmm.
- 40:39And that's okay.
- 40:40It doesn't mean they're wrong or they're bad dieticians, we teach differently.
- 40:44We probably have different clients.
- 40:46Yeah.
- 40:46Things are different.
- 40:47And that's cool.
- 40:48Do you think people are gonna be mad at us for this episode?
- 40:51I hope not.
- 40:51Hopefully it's like a breath of fresh air.
- 40:54If you do have comments, concerns, questions, yeah.
- 40:58Feel free to like, yes.
- 41:01Like fire back at us.
- 41:02Yeah.
- 41:03Feel free to be like, eh, I think you're wrong.
- 41:06But it's also gonna be really funny if a lot of our listeners are like, we didn't even know that this everyone existed.
- 41:11They're all, what's going on?
- 41:12We're like this whole episode on the new pyramid, and nobody even knew it was a thing.
- 41:16Yeah, there.
- 41:17So yeah, if you haven't heard, there's a lot of drama in the dietician world about the pyramid.
- 41:21That's why we thought we'd bring it up too and share our thoughts.
- 41:25Don't freak out.
- 41:26Like, yeah, don't freak out.
- 41:28Be cool.
- 41:28Don't be weird.
- 41:30Don't be weird.
- 41:30Vegetables.
- 41:31Yes.
- 41:32That should be our new slogan.
- 41:33Just don't be weird.
- 41:33Don't be weird.
- 41:35We gonna gotta be weird.
- 41:37All right everyone, we hope this was helpful.
- 41:39As always, like we said, feel free to send us a DM if you have additional questions.
- 41:44If you wanna fire back at us, if you wanna talk about things, feel free to send us a message and we'll be back next week with a very new topic.
- 41:52Bye.