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Anu Simh speaking about the importance of micronutrients in the diet

Name: Anu Simh speaking about the importance of micronutrients in the diet
Uploaded: 2024-04-15T01:20:31+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Anu Simh
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube clip (Anu Simh, April 15, 2024) where the speaker argues that micronutrients—not macronutrient debates—are the primary…

15 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube clip (Anu Simh, April 15, 2024) where the speaker argues that micronutrients—not macronutrient debates—are the primary nutritional deficit in Western diets. She critiques practitioners who recommend many supplements without first assessing dietary micronutrient intake, and states that people on a standard American diet are unlikely to get sufficient micronutrients.

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And I think they hear a lot of practitioners say, oh, I take about 10 to 15 supplements a day, and that it's almost like giving them an okay to do that versus really looking at your diet and lifestyle. Are you taking enough micronutrients in your food? We are all so caught up with macronutrients right now, you know, fighting over which macro is fat or good. It's the micronutrients, you know, because I don't think being in the Western world, especially here in the States, no one's really deficient in macros. You know, we eat way more than we should, but the micros. Yes, because we're eating all the wrong kinds of. If you're on a standard American diet, you're certainly not getting enough micronutrients.