Anti-nutrients: More Hype Than Harm? | Dietitian Stephanie McBurnett Live Q&A
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the anti-nutrients that are in vegetables and other foods that you’re eating. Are these natural compounds that are protective to plants harming your health?
Dietitian Stephanie McBurnett explains what they are, which foods have them, and what effect they may have on your health.
She joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE for anti-nutrients 101!
Topics Covered
- What are anti-nutrients?
- Nutrients blocked by anti-nutrients
- Solutions for maximizing nutrient absorption
- Lectins
- Oxalates
- Saponins
- Phytates
- Phytoestrogens
Chuck also shares why the ages of 60-64 could be the most critical for determining whether you wind up in a nursing home in the future. He has the results of a massive lifestyle study in Australia that could keep you healthy and independent well into your golden years.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.2 | Let's look at anti-nutrients from a cartoon perspective. |
| 0:07.4 | Take Popeye for instance. |
| 0:09.0 | Popeye loved spinach, would eat cans and cans and cans of it every single day. |
| 0:14.2 | But spinach is high in oxalates and oxalates, as you just said, are anti-nutrients. |
| 0:20.6 | So would you rather eat the Popeye high spinach diet or be like his friend Whitby who would |
| 0:27.1 | gladly pay you to stay for a hamburger today? |
| 0:31.0 | Which diet would you prefer? |
| 0:32.5 | 100% spinach. |
| 0:33.5 | There's so much more in there that like we don't want to demonize this one single compound. |
| 0:40.1 | And again, you know, if you had to pick between spinach and hamburgers and you knew that |
| 0:45.3 | you were kidney sensitive, your kidney stone sensitive, I would still eat my spinach just |
| 0:50.2 | I would boil it and make sure I spread it out throughout the day and not eating huge amounts |
| 0:54.5 | at once. |
| 0:55.5 | Spinach has so many other healthy properties. |
| 0:58.5 | It's high in antioxidants, phytonutrients, fiber, phytochemicals, all that green that chlorophyll |
| 1:06.6 | does wonders. |
| 1:07.6 | It's very anti-aging, you know, it's doing wonders for your body and I would take spinach, even |
| 1:14.1 | if it was, even if I was sensitive to kidney stones, I would still try to implement some |
| 1:20.7 | spinach intake into my diet. |
| 1:24.5 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:34.4 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
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