Dariush Mozaffarian

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"There was a very influential book written by Paul Ehrlich, who actually just passed away, and there were some nice eulogies written about him, called The Population Bomb. And he said that hundreds of millions of people are going to die."

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"DuPont had actually been the company that had invented and promoted DDT in World War II as a way to protect the troops from typhus and malaria, the pesticide DDT. So he started spraying the crops with DDT."

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"This idea that seed oils are bad for you when seeds are, you know, one of nature's most amazing potent gifts to man... Seed oils are really good for us as well, and really healthy."

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"So I think true regenerative agriculture, I'm hopeful. I think we need more science. I wouldn't say we know yet. But I think true regenerative agriculture might actually also make even something like red meat less concerning for human health."

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"The main classification system that defines ultra-processed foods is called the NOVA classification... NOVA is just 'new' in Portuguese."

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"There's been large long-term trials with thousands of people who have been given just fish oil. Some of them have shown significant benefits for heart attacks and other outcomes. Some of them have not."

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"If you give a high-fat diet to a mouse or a rat, they gain weight, they become obese... Whereas if you give a high-fat diet to a human, like the Atkins diet, they lose weight."

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"There have been randomized trials of MCTs, not huge trials, not super well done trials, but there have been several trials showing benefits of giving MCT oils."

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"We don't know for sure that these would work together, but if somebody wants to try combining cold plunges or other cold vests and has the means to do it with a healthy diet, I think that could be really interesting, and I'd love to see actually some research on that."

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"Putting protein in Pop-Tarts, putting protein in Starbucks and Dunkin' sugary drinks... it gives a health halo to these highly ultra-processed foods."

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"If you're eating an amazing, perfect Mediterranean diet and all the richness of all the plants and fish and other things, and you go from that to carnivore, you're actually hurting yourself because you're losing all of these thousands or tens of thousands of polyphenols and fiber."

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"What industry is doing is taking that message and putting protein in Pop-Tarts, putting protein in Starbucks and Dunkin' sugary drinks, putting protein in cheese puffs... it gives a health halo to these highly ultra-processed foods."

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"Putting protein in Pop-Tarts, putting protein in Starbucks and Dunkin' sugary drinks... it gives a health halo to these highly ultra-processed foods."

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"This was at the height of the low-fat diet fetish in our country, right? Low-fat frozen yogurt, fat-free salad dressing, fat-free cream cheese. I mean, everything, you know, SnackWell's became the top-selling cookie."

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"There were books like The Population Explosion that were written by Stanford professors that said we just have to pick the countries where we can feed people and the countries where people are just going to starve."