"Clean coal" and "light cigarettes" make about as much sense as the "bright side of negativity".  In general, it's almost always to your advantage to be positive than negative.On today's episode, The Nutrition Grouch talks about why he was shocked to realize that he sounded so negative and does his best to explain why.  The nutrition world is showered in and drowned by positivity and the only way to counterbalance positivity is with its opposite, negativity.You can't "out positive" the positive and a constructive criticism and "nudges" aren't enough to bring people back to rational.  Some of the topics in today's podcast include:Oscar the Grouch vs Oscar the Complainer (3:20)No one has worked harder for less career success (4:10)King on the Mountain (5:43)I’m not that smart, I’m educated (6:41)Grateful to keep my values and my integrity (8:26)My strong sense of right and wrong – and why it matters so much (9:35)The four primary reasons why I’m negative (11:04)The only way to fight positivity is with negativity – you can’t “outpositive” the positive (11:50)One of the best children’s books I’ve ever read (12:25)What can you really sell with negativity? (14:21)Most medicine only makes you feel “less worse” (15:37)The pathology of disease is more severe than the benefits of good nutrition (17:10)Is food medicine or is food toxic? (18:27)A healthy skepticism (19:31)There’s a chance I’m wrong about all of this (21:12)To hell with your nutrition perfectionism! (22:08)Systemize your nutrition and let it play in the background of life (23:31)Why studying long-term nutrition is so difficult (24:05)It’s hard to argue facts or data with make believe (26:54)The quantification debacle 2.0 – how to lie with percentages (27:27)A Kia is not a Mercedes – no nutrition levels, categories, or tiers (29:11)Is diet quality important for weight loss? (29:41)Diet input does not equal health output (31:48)The luxurification of everything – does your dog eat better than you? (33:02)Nutrition is about the avoidance of disease more than it is for positive benefits (34:34)Absurd positivity and altered normal are explained by habituation (37:01)

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