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“I support IV vitamin C which is about 200g and that by passes the digestive system causing any loose bowels symptoms but can really help get getting help to the body, and there are over 80,000 studies on vitamin C which will support all these various pathways and how wonderful Vitamin C really is as a vitamin” Vicky Godfrey 2020 In this week's episode Steve is joined by Nutritionist and DNApal co-founder Vicky Godfrey. As a Harley Street nutritional therapist (NT), Vicky's belief is prevention is better than cure. This is where she see's DNA testing and being able to support your health and foundations is so important to your health journey. “We can really work on optimising certain pathways in the body. You can't get anymore personalised than supporting people with their genetics.” Vicky Godfrey Website: https://dnapal.me/ Social: @dna.pal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicky-godfrey-a56536/?originalSubdomain=uk More about Vicky http://anaturalpath.co.uk/a

“Brutality is contagious and so is companionability. So, somebody who effects people for the worst will have a higher level of inner brutality and they won't necessarily be able to see that there effecting their team in that manor”. Anna Pinkerton 2020 In Episode 33 of The Fat & Furious Podcast Steve is joined by author and psychotherapist Anna Pinkerton. Anna Pinkerton is a professionally qualified psychotherapist and author with over 25 years' experience, she specialises in helping people recover from chronic stress, PTSD, burnout and breakdown. As a leading expert in the UK for post trauma work, and burnout trauma Anna is uniquely trained in EMDRII, TIR and CATTI protocols (trauma re-processing models). She has successfully incorporated these models into a generic model of person-centred, recovery focused psychotherapy and has pioneered the use of simple drawings and imagery, in line with neuroscience. Her methodology helps people recover thoroughly from chronic stress react

“My mission is to empower people to take control of their own health, well-being and fitness using simple breathing exercises proven to improve body oxygenation”. Patrick McKeown In episode 32 of the Fat and Furious podcast Steve is joined by the author of the ‘Oxygen Advantage' Patrick McKeown. World- renowned author and breathing practitioner Patrick McKeown was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko. From a young age, Patrick suffered from asthma and relied on an array of medicines and inhalers until he discovered the Buteyko Method at the age of 26, experiencing immediate relief from his symptoms. By applying the principals of the Buteyko Method, Patrick remains asthma-free since then, a feat that over 20 years of medication had failed to accomplish. In a career spanning 15 years, Patrick has since al

“So when we test you we are looking at over 700,000 data points on the genes but because only a handful of those have been properly researched and are ones that fall within our remit of being able to be influence by diet and lifestyle.” Kate Scott 2020 In this week's episode Steve is joined by Nutritionist and DNApal co-founder Kate Scott. Kate is a UK registered Nutritional Therapist (NT), specialising in nutrigenetics (the impact and interaction between DNA and nutrition in the body). She is passionate about improving people's health and wellbeing by helping them to understand their genetic blueprint, what that means in terms of their health and how best to support themselves through positive diet and lifestyle changes. More about Kate: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-scott-886b7112 Websites: https://dnapal.me/ http://www.vitagen-x.com/ Instagram: @dna.pal

“Did you know the quickest way to change your physiological straight that's between your parasympathetic rest and digest and your fight or flight sympathetic nervous system is through your breathing”. Jenny Philips 2020 In this episode, Steve Bennett is joined by Nutritionist, Jenny Phillips. Jenny is a qualified CNHC registered Nutritional Therapist and author of Eat to Outsmart Cancer. Her specialism is evidence-based nutritional and lifestyle advice which can be applied to any health concern and also in prevention. She provides a functional medicine approach which works well alongside mainstream medicine. Fundamentally this involves looking at health from a holistic perspective – identifying connections and interactions between the various bodily systems. The aim is to restore homeostasis and facilitate the body to heal through root cause resolution. Twitter - @JennyNutrition Website - www.inspirednutrition.co.uk The Food Bank Show - https://youtu.be/LuJJSBxh_20

“It's a positive and active thing being asleep because not only reconfiguring the chemical reactions in the brain and storing memories, but it does also enable the clearance of some of the more harmful proteins in the brain. That if you like build up during the day its like relaxing other muscles after exercising.” Emer MacSweeney 2020 Join Steve and these weeks guest Dr Emer MacSweeney. Founder of Re:Cognition Health where she specialises in brain and mind health. Emer is a specialist on Alzheimer's and diseases of the brain don't miss this episode so you can keep your brain and mind as healthy as possible. Website - https://recognitionhealth.com/ Twitter / Facebook - @ReCogHealth Dr Emer MacSweeney is a leading London neuroradiologist with experience in both the NHS and the independent sector. Currently, she is the CEO and Medical Director of Re:Cognition Health, where she was awarded the KPMG Entrepreneur of the year award in 2016. Her previous posts include Director

In this episode Steve Bennett is joined by Ivor Cummins and together they discussed everything from the importance of vitamins to Fat and how eating good quality fats can improve your health drastically. Twitter - @FatEmperor YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn4FsiQP15nudug9FDhluA Website - www.thefatemperor.com Podcast Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/567xBIcsiKIilm13HTLRtU?si=L9qnlFoRQeKW-33LpjsdCQ Ivor Cummins Books - Eat Rich Live Long: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ivor-Cummins/e/B07981TZTS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1595423945&sr=8-1 CAC test locations: https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/tests-scans/ct-calcium-scoring-or-cardiac-calcium-scoring#location Here is a recent quote from an interview between Steve and Ivor. "Heart disease is an inflammatory problem. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, high blood glucose and spikes in your blood glucose after a meal, are the top problem in the world driving heart disease. It's not the whole cause. A hug

“We are noticing as dentists there is a thing called teeth surface lose which basically means your teeth are being dissolved from all the acid you are having.” Dr James Goolnik 2020 In this episode, Steve Bennett is joined by Award Winning Dentist, James Goolnik. Discover what the biggest causes for teeth decay really are and how to prevent it! James Goolnik is a practicing dentist with a master's degree in Conservative dentistry. James was previously President of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is a judge for both the Dental Industry Awards and the Private Dentistry Awards, and he lectures internationally on work / life balance in dentistry. Twice listed in Private Dentistry's poll of the top 20 Elite Dentists in the UK in 2011 and 2012, James has also been voted the most influential person in dentistry in the UK in 2011 and 2012 by the trade magazine, Dentistry. His book ‘Brush' published is a number one best seller on Amazon and all the profits are channelled to the

A Natural Diet Is the Best Medicine| Nutritionist Victoria Fenton “If we look at modern health if all of the measures, we've brought in for hygiene to childhood vaccines to antibiotics all of these things that we now do to medicalise life in away. If they were supremely effective and brilliant at what they are trying to achieve we would have the healthiest adult populations possible. We would have no chronic illness, no auto immune disease, no constant underlying IBS, gut issues etcetera, and we don't. Particularly in the developed world like America or here we've got some of the unhealthiest adult populations and some of the unhealthiest teenage and children populations possible in modern history.” Victoria Fenton 2020 Join Steve and his guest Nutritionist Victoria Fenton as they discuss all things health focusing on Victoria's extensive knowledge in connective tissue disorders and how a good natural healthy diet free of processed foods is the best medicine. Websites https:/

“Once your brain has learned to eat junk food and sugar it will never forget and bypass your brains higher functions to do so. So the best thing to do is avoid it as much as possible because your brain will seek it out for the rest of your life” – Dr Steven Witherly 2020 Book: Why Humans Like Junk Food https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Humans-Like-Junk-Food/dp/059541429X Join Steve and his guest Dr Steven Witherly as they discuss why the world is addicted to Fast food. Learn why modern food is the way it is today and how you can even make your loved ones love their vegetables with just a few secret ingredients that the big food corporations try to keep hidden. Dr Steven Witherly, PhD is a 26-year veteran in the food and nutraceutical field. He is the author of Why Humans Like Junk Food a book which explains why food tastes, smells and feels the way it does and tells you how to improve your own cooking without a recipe. Steven received his BS in dietetics and his MS in food scien

“Our brains are constantly narrating to us all the time but it's our thoughts that give us our feelings…What is it about? It is about capturing those thoughts and re-framing them to a way that makes sense for you, because it's our thoughts that give us our feeling. For every feeling we have there is a thought first.” – Dr Anna Symonds 2020 This weeks guest is a clinical psychologist Dr Anna Symonds. Join Steve and Anna as they discuss the thought process or lack of thought behind what we put into our mouths. Twitter @dr_symonds Instagram @drannasymonds YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96Oz6Fk-_0f-YKQWzFqoNQ Websites https://www.dr-annasymonds.co.uk/ https://www.elysianpsychology.co.uk/ Dr Anna Symonds is a Clinical Psychology provider to young people and adults. She is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Chartered with the British Psychological Society. She qualified at the University of Leicester with a Doctorate in Cli

“If you want proper advice on if you should take vitamins or whether you should have a particular diet you should be on the person your told to go to is a doctor which is a bit like asking your carpenter how you might re-wire your house I mean it's the wrong profession a profession that is not trained for it.” – Jerome Burne 2020 This week's guest on the Fat & Furious Podcast is Jerome Burne a health and medicine journalist and Author with over 20 years in his field. Join Steve and Jerome as they discuss what is wrong with the dietary guidelines in the UK and how better education in schools and medical school can help change the health of our nation. Jerome has been a health journalist for twenty years and written for most of the national newspapers and a variety of magazines. Before that he edited a massive tome called Chronicle of the World and before that he was co-editor of Time Out in the mid-1980's. In recent years Jerome has written mainly for the Daily Mail. He has also c

‘The only hope for the future of medicine is prevention and we know that the majority of these chronic diseases that take up all the doctors time are preventable!' – Dr Peter Brukner 2019 This week Steve is joined by Dr Peter Brukner Aussie sports medicine physician, author and real food advocate. Recently doctor to the Aussie cricket team and Liverpool FC. Convenor of SugarByHalf campaign. Websites https://www.fatlotofgood.com.au/ https://www.peterbrukner.com/ Books https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Peter-Brukner/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3APeter+Brukner Twitter @PeterBrukner Peter is a medical doctor and specialist sports and exercise medicine physician. Peter has had two passions during this medical career. The first was sports medicine. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He was the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, has served two terms as president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, is the c

'Before cars and fridges our food was fresh and organic and we ate a lot more of it, because we had to chop the wood, fetch the water and we moved around. That organic whole food provides a level of vitamins and minerals that if we wanted to achieve the same level of nutrition today we would have to supplement!' - Patrick Holford 2019 In this fascinating episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett & leading nutrition expert, Patrick Holford discuss the role suboptimum nutrition plays in our overall health. From the western diet, lifestyle factors and man made medicines, how much is contributing to both your physical and mental health? Website - PatrickHolford.com Twitter/Facebook/ - @patrickholford Patrick is a leading spokesman on nutrition in the media, specialising in the field of mental health. He is the author of 40 books, translated into over 30 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide, including The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Low-GL Diet Bible, Opt

'A patient come to me who had been on blood pressure pills for 15 years and went on my diet plan, started walking again and nothing else. Within three months stopped taking 3 of the 4 pills blood pressure medications he'd been on of 15 years, and had never felt better.' - Aseem Malhotra 2019 In this episode your host Steve Bennett and his guest Dr Aseem Malhotra expose whether to much exercise can cause a heart attack. Aseem is both a practicing Cardiologist and a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar and has led work highlighting the harm caused by excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom, particularly its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity. Aseem has written for several publications including the BMJ, The Guardian and Observer, BBC online, Huffington Post, The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post. In 2018 he was ranked by Onalytica as the number 1 doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking

'It's not your fault that you thought salt was bad, we've been pre-disposed to believe that salt is this toxic poison when really its this essential mineral.' - Dr James DiNicolatonio 2019 Dr. James DiNicolantonio is a cardiovascular research scientist and doctor of pharmacy at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, and author of The Salt Fix and Superfuel. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and expert on health and nutrition, he has contributed extensively to health policy and has even testified in front of the Canadian Senate regarding the harms of added sugars. Dr. DiNicolantonio serves as the Associate Editor of Nutrition and British Medical Journal's (BMJ) Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society. He is the author or coauthor of approximately 200 publications in the medical literature. He is also on the editorial advisory boards of several medical journals. He has shared his

‘We also need to encourage governments to do more to make sustainable farming the more profitable option for farmers and the more affordable option for consumers.' – Patrick Holden 2019 For the full story get your copy of Fat and Furious on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TBdTGD Use the discount code: 'FFPodcast' at checkout for £5 off. In this episode, your host Steve Bennett and Sustainable food activist, Patrick Holden discuss how the UK needs to move to a more sustainable and organic way of farming. Twitter – @SusFoodTrust / @SoilAssociation Website - https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ Patrick Holden is the founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, working internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd,

‘The goal for everyone is to feel, peace and happiness, however they might phrase it. So we help patients to notice how much of their time and feelings is given to their addiction, say sugar for example. I'll ask - How much, out of 100% is that addiction giving you that feeling of peace and happiness? They aren't going to say very much are they' – Dr.Jen Unwin 2019 on pleasure vs happiness Website: https://realfoodrocks.co.uk/ https://phcuk.org/board/ https://www.lowcarbprogram.com/ Twitter - @jen_unwin YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oChtW_g--E In this Episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by Dr. Jen Unwin. Steve first met Jen with her husband Dr. David Unwin after he had written the preface to Steve's book The Primal Cure. Steve was fascinated by Jens work in psychology and the role it plays in improving our health. Jen with her husband David has undertaken a body of work that looks to hit the issue of obesity and diabetes head on by

‘The biggest sort of benefit to fasting is weight loss and its effect on Type 2 diabetes. Both are related conditions. Essentially when you do not eat your forcing the body to use up some of its fat stores of food energy or Calories. It shows we do not need to be eating all the times. Your fasting even when you are sleeping, you're not eating in your sleep so therefore you have to rely on your bodies fat stores' – Jason Fung 2019 Website – https://thefastingmethod.com/ Twitter - @drjasonfung Instagram - @fastingmethod YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/thefastingmethod Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Dr-Jason-Fung/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADr+Jason+Fung In this Episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by Jason Fung a Canadian Nephrologist, a medical doctor who specialises in kidney care and treating diseases of the kidney. He is a world leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carbs, especially for treating people with those who suffer with type

‘It was getting really bad, a very sharp, crushing pain going down my left arm. I started to feel breathless ...as if you're feeling anxious but there isn't a cause.' Dr Shan Hussain – Describing his heart attack. Website – https://thehealthstudio.net/ Twitter - @DrShanHussain Instagram - @dr.shanhussain Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Prescription-Balancing-Principles-Enduring/dp/1599327163/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=shan+hussain&qid=1587128427&s=books&sr=1-1 In this Episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by fellow Podcaster, Wellness Expert and twice bestselling Author, Dr Shan Hussain. Steve and Shan discuss how a fit, healthy and practising GP suffered a heart attack. What in fact was the single biggest contributor to Dr Shan's heart attack? Is stress indeed the ‘silent killer?'

‘Mindfulness is the act of paying attention to what is going on around and in you…it's important to calm the body and mind as there is a link between stress and inflammation.' Sherezade Ruano Website – rhytmiabreath.com Twitter - @RuanoSherezade Dr Aseem Malhotra Twitter/Instagram/facebook - @DrAseemmalhotra Website - doctoraseem.com In this episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by Cardiologist, Dr Aseem Malhotra and Arrhythmia Specialist & Stress Management Expert, Shere Ruano to talk about the science behind mindfulness. Can we truly calm our own sympathetic nervous system and therefore reduce the likelihood of certain illnesses?

‘Look at the eatwell plate, 60% of this is carbohydrate…there is some seriously wrong advice!” – Giancarlo Join your host Steve Bennett with culinary couple Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi on how this Italian master chef and lover of pasta put his diabetes into remission through low-carb living, and you can too. Website – Caldesi.com Twitter - @MrCaldesi and @KatieCaldesi Facebook - @caldesiUK Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi first came to prominence on the BBC TV series ‘Return to Tuscany' but Giancarlo has successfully run restaurants in London since the 1970's. The pair have frequently appeared on many well regarded culinary TV shows including BBC1's ‘Saturday Kitchen' and Channel 4's ‘Sunday Brunch' , they also appear regularly on a national and local radio and in national and international magazines and newspapers They are also the owners of La Cucina Caldesi known as ‘The Italian Cookery School in London' and authors of ‘The Diabetes weight loss Cook Book' inspired by Giancarlo's exp

Can you imagine losing weight, whilst loving the food you're eating and never feeling hungry? In this episode of Fat & Furious your host Steve Bennett and award winning broadcaster, Jon Gaunt explains how this can be made into a reality and why the current NHS dietary advice has been keeping you overweight and overmedicated until now. Website – Jongaunt.com & Simpleasfat.com Facebook - @jongaunt Twitter - @jongaunt Jonathan Charles Gaunt is an English radio talk show presenter, TV personality, newspaper columnist, social commentator & spokesman. Jon is also the founder of ‘Simples As Fat,' a revolution which helps people to eat real food, having previously spent the best part of the last two decads following the wrong dietary advise of the NHS himself, putting on more weight and being pescribed more medication to manage his Type 2 Diabetes (which he has now put into remission).

“With so much evidence proving that the current government guidelines are flawed, how long do you think it will take before governments tell the truth? It's a very good question. It's the $64 billion question. There are a lot of forces acting against us.” Are we living by 50 to 60 years of bad science on how to live healthier, happier and for longer? In this compelling episode of the Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett and investigative journalist, Gary Taubes expose the evidence proving the current government dietary guidelines are flawed and why sugar is poison. Website - garytaubes.com Facebook - @garytaubesauthor Twitter – @garytaubes Is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (www.NuSI.org). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Gary is the recipient of a Rober

“Today if you go to a supermarket and buy normal salad vegetables, I am talking about lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, all the salad crops, none of them are grown in the soil anymore! They are all grown hydroponically (hydroponics is the science of growing plants without using soil) in this rockwool, or equivalent.” Is mass production of food and modern-day farming methods starving us of good nutrition? Your host of Fat & Furious, Steve Bennett and founder of The Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden shed light on the damaging consequence of poor nutrition. After studying bio-dynamic agriculture at Emerson College, Patrick established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, which today is the longest-running organic farm in the country. Patrick was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years as a director and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards

"Natural fats are not the enemy. We have demonised and vilified the good guy for more than 50 years, and all the while the sickly-sweet kid has been getting away with murder!" Dr Dan Maggs, 2019 Are doctors and health professionals alike spreading a misinformed message around eating a ‘balance diet' for good health? Join your host Steve Bennett and general practitioner, Dr Dan Maggs on why the government guidelines have contributed to the rise of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other chronic health conditions. YouTube / Twitter / Facebook - @drdanaggs Website - carbdodging.com As a general practitioner (GP), you'd think Dr Dan Maggs would know how to get his weight problems under control. Yet despite several attempts – adhering to a ‘balanced diet' as specified in the UK's national dietary guidelines – he found himself clinically obese in his early 30s. Thankfully, a chance encounter while on holiday in 2016 led to him discovering the power of a primal diet, built around a lo

“We have to remember that big pharmaceutical companies are not profiting if you are getting well. They really have no interest in better health.” Why do we believe that eating fat is bad for our health? How did we get nutrition wrong for so many years? Why are we living in an epidemic of heart disease and type 2 diabetes? Join your host Steve Bennett, and investigative nutrition journalist, Nina Teicholz on how we have mislead by misinformed dietary guidelines. Website - ninateicholz.com Facebook - @Nina Teicholz Twitter - @bigfatsurprise Nina Teicholz is an investigative journalist who, for over a decade, has specialised in food and nutrition. Her international best seller The Big Fat Surprise, Why Butter, Meat & Cheese belong in a Health Diet, was book of the year for the Times, Wall Street Journal and BBC Food Programme. The British Medical Journal appraised and the book saying. “Deeply disturbing in showing overenthusiastic scientists, poor science, massive conflicts of

‘We do know that milk causes cancer cells to grow, obviously not a problem for the very young as they are meant to drink milk. What concerns me, and the logic is very strong, but the hard evidence is not quite there yet, but what milk does is it promotes a hormone called IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor.' In this fascinating episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett & leading nutrition expert, Patrick Holford discuss the role suboptimum nutrition plays in our overall health. From the western diet, lifestyle factors and manmade medicines, how much is contributing to both your physical and mental health? Website - PatrickHolford.com Twitter/Facebook/ - @patrickholford Patrick is a leading spokesman on nutrition in the media, specialising in the field of mental health. He is the author of 40 books, translated into over 30 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide, including The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Low-GL Diet Bible, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind and

“Insulin is kind of a boss hormone. Insulin is designed to get rid of sugar because sugar in the blood is dangerous. So, in a sugary environment, insulin switches off your ability to burn fat. Our body is like a hybrid car. It can either burn sugar or fat, but not at the same time.” Twitter - @lowcarbGP “David is a GP in Southport, where he has been practising for over 30 years. During that time, he has become fascinated by how people can become really healthy without using medication. In 2016 David was bestowed the NHS Innovator of the Year award. He is Ambassador for the all-party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes, the Senior Medical Advisor to www.diabetes.co.uk, who have helped over 50,000 people put their diabetes in remission and is a founding member of The Public Health Collaboration. David says that one of the things he enjoys most is helping patients make lifestyle changes in order to make it possible to deprescribe their medication.”

“The world is obsessed with telling us that saturated fats are bad for us because that's just a message that has gone on and on and on! There is no evidence for it. It is just something people say.” Twitter – @malcolmken Website - drmalcolmkendrick.org

“Carbs do not satisfy hunger – they stimulate it. Most of the food in question is processed and developed with one purpose in mind: to make you want more. They are tested and refined to the point where they are as addictive as they are destructive.” Tim Noakes is a South African scientist and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He is a proclaimed author, amongst his best-sellers are The Real Meal Revolution, The Lore of Running, and The Lore of Nutrition. In 2012 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from South Africa's National Research Foundation for his contribution to sports science research. His most recent book, Real Food on Trial, tells the true story of his four-year-long court hearing in South Africa, where the establishment tried to silence his dietary opinions. Tim was victorious. He is ranked on Twitter as the 4th most influential scientist across the globe! Twitter/Instagram/facebook - @ProfTi

“Over 60% per cent of the UK adult population are overweight or obese. The roots of obesity, type 2 diabetes and CVD are firmly embedded in the food environment” Aseem is both a practising Cardiologist and a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar and has led work highlighting the harm caused by excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom, particularly its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity. Aseem has written for several publications including the BMJ, The Guardian and Observer, BBC online, Huffington Post, The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post. In 2018 he was ranked by Onalytica as the number 1 doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking. His first book, co-authored with Donal O'Neill, The Pioppi Diet, published 2017, is already an international bestseller. Twitter/Instagram/facebook - @DrAseemmalhotra Website - doctoraseem.com

"So, the two rules of diet which people do not understand, protect the liver and feed the gut." More about Robert... Robert is Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. He specialises in the field of neuroendocrinology, treating hormonal disorders in children, and he is interested in how the brain controls hormones and how hormones control the brain. He was head of the UCSF paediatric obesity program for 17 years. Dr Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet-related disease. He believes the food business, by pushing processed food loaded with sugar, has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness; fostering today's epidemics of addiction and depression. Robert is a global best-selling author and his presentation on YouTube, Sugar, the Bitter Truth, has had 8.9 million views.

"What are the secrets to losing weight and living healthier, happier and for longer? We first accept that we have little evolved since our primal ancestors and then optimise our nutrition, environment and lifestyle.In this podcast series your host Steve Bennett, Father of 7, bestselling author and adventurer is joined by the top leading medical professionals, doctors, authors and top nutritionists sharing the truths behind what really makes us fat and unhealthy. Dr Aseem Malhotra ""Fat & Furious is honestly the most detailed and comprehensive book on diet, lifestyle and health I've ever read. It is particularly impressive because it has been written and researched by a non-scientist, and speaks a language that really connects."