Nutrition explained by Dr. Jen Ashton

Good nutrition is vital because that is what our body runs on. And as the saying goes, food can be our medicine or it can also be our poison. When you talk about the daily nutritional requirements, it is absolutely not one size fits all. I think the goal with good nutrition is pretty simple. It's to eat as much color as possible in the form of fruits and vegetables while avoiding the ultra processed, long shelf life foods. Really the only number that I emphasize right now to people in terms of reading those nutritional profiles on the back of a package is added sugar. There's hidden added sugar in almost everything that's on the shelf. A lot of the evidence in the field of nutritional science and medical science is pointing to the fact that too much sugar is really not good for us. I think we're at the tip of the iceberg with that interaction between nutrition and how we feel both physically and psychologically. But what is known is that there is something called the gut brain axis and there is an interaction. But we're at the infancy of understanding what that is right now. But I encourage people to be curious with yourself. Do experiments with different ways of eating and see how you feel.