Inside Nutrition Misinformation: Nutrition Scientist Jessica Knurick Exposes What's Really Happening to Public Health in America

The Maha movement, they largely get the problem right. That's why it's so effective. They really have tapped into something in a very bipartisan way across the board that we all feel, because you know, maybe we can talk a little bit about how this left-to-right change in wellness has happened, but many of us in public health have been talking about these same problems that Maha is talking about, right? We do have a lifestyle-related chronic disease issue. That's why I got into this field and started studying chronic disease prevention, you know, a decade and a half ago.

We do have a food environment that is nearly, by best estimate, 70% ultra-processed food. And there's a reason for that. And we do have, you know, systems that are not built for us to be healthier. They're really built for corporate profit and for the profitability of them.

And so those truths are there and they really latched onto those. The issue is is that they got the causes of those issues largely wrong. And when you get the causes wrong, you're going to get the solutions wrong and you're going to miss the mark on the solutions. And your solutions either we'll be kind of benign and not make any impact or they'll be harmful in some cases.

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