Nick NorwitzMD PhD, Oxford-Harvard | Metabolic Health Educator | “Stay Curious”

In Moderation 🍽️ Doesn’t Work. Or Does it? #healthandfitness #sugar #kelce

3 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief commentary, the speaker draws on personal clinical experience from medical school, extracurricular clinical work, and cultural observations to argue that public health messages encouraging consumption of unhealthy foods "in moderation" are ineffective at the population level. Instead of curbing intake, such messaging provides a license that normalizes and potentially amplifies the consumption of metabolically harmful foods.

me, combined with what I've seen clinically during my subsequent years in medical school and through clinical extracurriculars, and through simple cultural observation, I am personally convinced that in moderation messaging is not working, at least not on a population level. Rather, it just provides license for amplifying the consumption and normalization of frankly metabolically harmful foodstuffs.