02: Who is the Nutrition Grouch?

08/09/2023 40 min Episodio 2
02: Who is the Nutrition Grouch?

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Episode Synopsis

In today’s episode, Todd Weber, PhD (aka, The Nutrition Grouch) talks about his small town, west central Wisconsin upbringing, choosing a college, changing majors, being an idiot, reading Muscle & Fitness, going to school forever (BS, MS, PhD), creating a 5000 paper database on weight management, his first foray into health & wellness misinformation, the early days blogging post PhD, not being able to get a full time teaching job, his disdain for continuing education, exile from the field of nutrition, his trouble with absolutism, the inability for people to show weakness, and the justification companies have for their nonessential existence.  He also details how no one has spent more time, energy, or effort in trying to research and understand the field of weight management and why he more than anyone else is in the position to speak the truth when it comes to weight loss.