In our inaugural episode of the nutrition series, Nate, Justin and our patient, Tina, tackle nutrition myths and what it means to eat for joy. Pretty ambitious... did they bite off more than they can chew?? Listen to find out.

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=== Outline ===
1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Tina's Story
3. Chapter 2: Eating for Joy
4. Chapter 3: Busting Nutrition Myths
5. Conclusion

=== Learning Points ===

1. Eating behavior is deeply rooted in personal experience.
2. Healthy eating can be a joyous experience, a message that is often lost in mass media and cultural myths.
3. Instead of focusing on individual components of food such as macronutrient profiles, carbohydrates, or fats, focus more on what a particular food offers as a whole.
4. Robust literature is available to guide physicians in counseling patients on their nutrition choices (more on this to come in future episodes).

=== Our Expert(s) ===

Dr. Justin Charles is a graduate of the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. His clinical interests are in Lifestyle Medicine, the use of evidence-based lifestyle interventions to not only prevent, but treat and reverse chronic disease from a root cause perspective. He has received training in Plant-Based Nutrition through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell, as well as Dr. John McDougall's Starch Solution Certification Course.

=== References ===

1. Ros E. The PREDIMED study. Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr. 2017 Feb;64(2):63-66. English, Spanish. doi: 10.1016/j.endinu.2016.11.003. Epub 2017 Feb 1. PMID: 28440779.
2. Le LT, Sabaté J. Beyond meatless, the health effects of vegan diets: findings from the Adventist cohorts. Nutrients. 2014 May 27;6(6):2131-47. doi: 10.3390/nu6062131. PMID: 24871675; PMCID: PMC4073139.

=== Recommended Reading ===

1. Zhang B, Zhai FY, Du SF, Popkin BM. The China Health and Nutrition Survey, 1989-2011. Obes Rev 2014; 15(suppl 1):2–7.
2. Campbell TC, Parpia B, Chen J. Diet, lifestyle, and the etiology of coronary artery disease: the Cornell China Study
3. Davey GK, Spencer EA, Appleby PN, et al. EPIC–Oxford: lifestyle characteristics and nutrient intakes in a cohort of 33,883 meat-eaters and 31,546 non meat-eaters in the UK.
4. Wilkins JT, Karmali KN, Huffman MD, et al. Data resource profile: the cardiovascular disease lifetime risk pooling project. Alles B, Baudry J, Mejean C, et al.

=== About Us ===
The Primary Care Pearls (PCP) Podcast is created in collaboration with faculty, residents, and students from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. The project aims to create accessible and informative podcasts for furthering the medical education of residents and clinicians in early stages of their careers. Building on the work of other medical education podcasts, Primary Care Pearls includes contributions from patients themselves, who have the autonomy to share their own experiences of how their primary care physician directly impacted the quality of their care.

Hosts: Nate Wood
Producers: Nate Wood, Helen Cai, August Alloco,
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