This week, Debbie talks to Dr. Cate Shanahan about her take on nutrition and the general health of the body. Dr. Cate is a board certified physician, but she has some unorthodox views on nutrition. As she says, her focus on nutrition as opposed to pharmaceuticals is becoming less uncommon in the medical community, but there is still a long way to go. She has written two books on diet called “Deep Nutrition,” and “Food Rules.” She is also the medical director of The FatBurn Factory.
Dr. Cate says that doctors are blasted with the same sort of information that has led the general public to, for example, push the idea of “fruits & vegetables” as a kind of mantra for health. She points out that fruits and vegetables are extremely different, in that fruits are often packed with sugars, which no one claims are good for you. Vegetables are often very high in essential nutrients and low in sugar, but they are treated as equivalent or even lesser than fruits.
However, she’s still mystified why this approach to treatment is still largely unrecognized. It follows on scientific knowledge, and so the fact that it is still somewhat “underground” doesn’t necessarily make sense.