Let's Get Real

Episode 146: What’s On Your Plate?

Episode Summary

Erica Wides is back for a brand new episode of Lets Get Real with her good friend Kristin Wartman; Lets Get Reals resident nutrition guru and food policy wonk! She has her own little office down here in the ‪#‎Foodiness‬ Fallout Shelter, where she sits and works on her forthcoming book Formerly Known as Food, and then her and Erica hang out and eat grass-fed burgers. Today they are discussing the new ‪#‎USDA‬ food guide ‪#‎MyPlate‬ recommendations. The idea we can eat 12 tablesoppons of sugar a day and be healthy is ridiculous. [11:00] When we have high levels of insulin circulating in the body, it affects the brain. [26:00]

Episode Notes

Erica Wides is back for a brand new episode of _ Let’s Get Real _ with her good friend  Kristin Wartman; Let’s Get Real’s resident nutrition guru and food policy wonk! She has her own little office down here in the  ‪#‎Foodiness‬ Fallout Shelter, where she sits and works on her forthcoming book “Formerly Known as Food”, and then her and Erica hang out and eat grass-fed burgers. Today they are “discussing” the new  ‪#‎USDA‬ food guide “ ‪#‎MyPlate‬” recommendations.

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“The idea we can eat 12 tablesoppons of sugar a day and be healthy is ridiculous.” [11:00]

“When we have high levels of insulin circulating in the body, it affects the brain.” [26:00]