• Recent data at a radiology conference sheds light on how diet can impact our muscles and joints.
• The new findings show that a diet high in ultra processed foods is correlated with more fatty infiltration in the quadriceps muscles.
• We know that with more fatty infiltration means weakness and a greater risk of developing knee arthritis (OA).
• Bottom line: While the study does not look at the cause and effect of Ultra-processed foods and OA, it does shed some light on possible mechanisms and how our diet can impact our muscle quality, and ultimately our joint health. 

Here is the press release summarizing the findings and our full video transcript below:

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Did you know that a new survey finds that a majority of young adults using TikTok implement at least one nutrition fad seen on that platform each week?

This disturbing statistic should give pause to physical therapists who share information with their patients or on social media to the general population. Nutrition advice can be powerful and spreading fad diets or misinformation can really have a negative effect on our patients and those listening.

In this video I discuss the recent survey and offer some suggestions on resources and what DPTs need to be doing.

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Transcript:

Good morning everyone, this is Dr. Wells from Nutritional Physical Therapy and I'm here to talk today a little bit abou...