159 | What Social Media Gets Wrong About Nutrition

About this episode

This episode discusses the nuances of nutrition advice and how clinicians can better respond to patient inquiries.

Nutrition Advice Needs More Nuance. Your patients are hearing a lot online: fix your gut, avoid processed foods, buy organic, take a probiotic, and eat the “right” foods if you want to be healthy. But nutrition is rarely that simple. In this episode, I’m joined by Registered Dietitian Manju Karkare to talk about how clinicians can respond to common nutrition questions with more nuance, less fear, and advice that actually fits the patient’s life. We cover gut health, probiotics, processed food...

People in this episode

Host: Colleen Sloan

Guest: Manju Karkare

Topics covered

• nutrition
• social media
• gut health
• probiotics
• processed foods
• patient care

Keywords

• nutrition
• social media
• gut health
• probiotics
• processed foods
• patient advice

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Organizations: Nutrition Advice

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