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HG: I like the fact that you can speak not only to the experience you had, LW: It is such a good question. I feel like in our
but also to the science. You have studied all this deeply. As a matter of history, in our political food history, so many
fact, you are going to be a professor in the spring, right? Tell us a little food groups have been villainized but fruits and
bit about what you’ve studied and the impact that’s made on what you vegetables have been spared. They are widely
have to share with people. considered fresh, vibrant and full of antioxidants
and really the best food for you. Everyone can
LW: My undergraduate degree was in nutritional sciences, with a focus on agree that fruits and vegetables are part of a
biochemistry. Because of my experience playing lacrosse as a collegiate healthy diet, no matter what side of the po-
athlete and afterwards in the world of CrossFit, I decided to focus more litical nutrition spectrum you come from. The
on the kinesiology aspect of health. My master’s degree is in exercise problem is that we overeat fruits without regard
physiology or kinesiology. It was very biochemistry-focused to understand for the fact that in the body, fruit is just sugar.
the fuel utilization of the skeletal muscle cells. I focused on how we use Our body does not have a separate biochemical
sugar, how we use fat, what happens post-exercise as we are trying to energy pathway for fruit or starchy vegetables.
recover and how important it is to feed the body well to improve not only Our body breaks them completely down into
our entire health, but specifically the health of the cells. glucose. So when you fill your plate with yams,
potatoes, beets, carrots, apricots or bananas,
HG: I’m glad you are going to speak to this, and I want us to go in depth your body sees that as one big pile of sugar.
because I find a lot of people thinking that they just need to up their
intake of fruits and vegetables. They think that’s what their body needs HG: Wow. That is eye-opening. I think one
to function best. What do you think of that? thing that threw us off was the food pyramid,

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