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On this week's episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Principal Dietitian and Director of the Simply Health Group, Kate Stoker. Kate founded Simply Nutrition Dietitians within the Simply health Group in 2011 and has now expanded the clinic from the Sunshine coast all around Queensland. The Simply Health Group not only includes Simple Nutrition Dietitian's but also Simply Engage Occupational Therapy to provide occupational therapist support services.  Kate has an array of experience working in both public and private settings such as in medical settings, nursing homes, in public health and corporate health. She is passionate about improving people's relationship with food, health and quality of life. Kate has a special interest in working with Bariatric Surgery patients, paediatrics, gastrointestinal disorders, in corporate health, with disordered eating and with binge eating disorder. Kate is also a member of the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand.  On this week's episode Kate will be speaking about people's current views on food and how we can start to think about food more as nourishing. For those who have experienced disordered eating, or an eating disorder, food might be something that is viewed as negative, with no value and something to be avoided. However, as we know with the support of a Dietitian that this is far from true. Food actually plays a tremendous role not only for our physical health but also in our social, emotional, spiritual and psychological health. This episode aims to help people take a different view on food and the role that it can play in our lives. Encouraging people to look at their values around food and the lives that they are wanting to live. So lets get into it! Podcast Summary  1.    The problem with seeing foods as just calories  2.    The confusing media around food and health 3.    Giving your body enough fuel to function  4.    The body needs a variety of foods to function properly 5.    Changing the way you think about the word nourishing  Links to Simply Health Nutrition:  Website: simplynutritiondietitians.com.au Facebook: Simply Health Group Instagram: @simply_health_group Linked in: Simply Nutrition Dietitians    Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:  BodyMatters Australasia Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bodymatters.com.au/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau Butterfly Foundation Helpline: Call their National Helpline on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠1800 33 4673⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠chat online⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email

In episode #229 of The Hormone P.U.Z.Z.L.E Podcast, our guest Melanie McGrice talks about 5 Ways to Boost Your Fertility by 69%. More about Melanie: Melanie McGrice is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, one of the few dietitians in Australia to achieve that status. Her success has made her an in-demand practitioner, author, conference speaker, and researcher who is eager to share what she knows with her clients and her peers. She is a go-to resource for the media, who frequently turn to her for their articles and news segments on nutrition, fertility, pregnancy and women's health. Melanie's professional network is extensive. She is the past chairperson of the Obesity Interest Group of the Dietitians Association of Australia, has served on the Board of the Weight Management Council of Australia and currently sits on the Early Life Nutrition Coalition. Melanie works tirelessly with a wide range of specialists in both mental and physical health to ensure that her clients have every resource at their disposal. It's no surprise that she was awarded the coveted ‘Australian Dietitian of the Year' in 2018. Melanie earned her Master's Degree in Dietetics with a simple goal in mind: to help people use nutrition to make a positive difference in their lives. That goal became a reality with the establishment of the Early Life Nutrition Alliance. The Early Life Nutrition Alliance is an international team of experienced dietitians with a passion for Early Life Nutrition. Thank you for listening! This episode is made possible by @‌getglowbotanica Follow Melanie on Instagram: @‌melaniemcgrice Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌kela_healthcoach Get your FREE Fertility Meal Plan: https://coachkela.com/ FTC Affiliate Disclaimer: The disclosure that follows is intended to fully comply with the Federal Trade Commission's policy of the United States that requires to be transparent about any and all affiliate relations the Company may have on this show. You should assume that some of the product mentions and discount codes given are "affiliate links", a link with a special tracking code This means that if you use one of these codes and purchase the item, the Company may receive an affiliate commission. This is a legitimate way to monetize and pay for the operation of the Website, podcast, and operations and the Company gladly reveals its affiliate relationships to you. The price of the item is the same whether it is an affiliate link or not. Regardless, the Company only recommends products or services the Company believes will add value to its users. The Hormone Puzzle Society and Dr. Kela will receive up to 30% affiliate commission depending on the product that is sponsored on the show. For sponsorship opportunities, email HPS Media at podcast@coachkela.com.

Joy Anderson talks with Emma about how dieticians help families try and find out whether there's an issue with allergies or intolerances in a breastfed baby. This episode includes information about symptoms, elimination diets, food challenges and how to get help and support. Get links to resources and information discussed, and the episode transcript here: https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/breastfeedingwithABA/podcast-breastfeeding-and-allergies-part-1 Information on breastfeeding your baby with food sensitivities, including allergies and intolerances. Lactose overload in babies information. Information on lactose intolerance and the breastfed baby. Breastfeeding and reflux information. Information on breastfeeding a child with coeliac disease. Information on crying babies, including colic. Information on knowing if baby is getting enough breastmilk, including wee and poo in nappies. Gastroenteritis (gastro) and breastfeeding information. Information on breastfeeding and your diet. Dietitians Association of Australia. Food Intolerance Network's list on failsafe-friendly dietitians and other health professionals. Information on finding an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Facts about formula. Breastfeeding and medications information, including contact information for the NPS Medicines Line or the Medicines Information Centre(s) in your state or territory. Listen to part 2 here: https://www.podcasts.com/breastfeeding-with-aba-915bafc0b/episode/ep-27-breastfeeding-and-allergies-part-2Credits: This episode is presented by Emma Pennell. Featuring Joy Anderson. Audio editing by Emma Pennell and Jessica Leonard. Show notes by Belinda Chambers. Transcription by Jessica Leonard. Produced by Belinda Chambers, Jessica Leonard and Eleanor Kippen. For breastfeeding support in Australia, call 1800 mum 2 mum (1800 686 268). The National Breastfeeding Helpline is free and available 24/7/365. More ways to get information and support right now: https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/get-help

This week's guest is Jessica Turton. Jessica is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) with postgraduate qualifications in Nutrition & Dietetics and full membership with the Dietitians Association of Australia. She is interested in developing, evaluating and improving dietetic strategies for the management of diabetes and is currently undertaking her Research Doctorate (Ph.D) at the University of Sydney.  Join us as we dive into such topics as Low-Carb eating and the management of Type 1 Diabetes, disordered eating, the high-quality micronutrient profile of pasture-raised meat, customizing eating plans to optimize health, and much more.

We talk with nutrition specialized career research scientist and educator Dr. Tim Crowe. Crowe stands out in a controversial industry with evidence-based nutrition messages in plain language. Dr. Tim Crowe holds a PhD and is a Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian with the Dietitians Association of Australia. He publishes a regular podcast called Thinking Nutrition. For more on Dr. Tim Crowe check out his website ThinkingNutrition.com.au and follow him on instagram @DocTimCrowe. RELATED PODCASTS: You Can't Buy Health | Higher Line Podcast #113 Scared of Needles? | Higher Line Podcast #168 Where Does Your Food Come From? | Higher Line Podcast #162 --- Music Attributions: Intro - "3rd Eye Blimp" by Otis McDonald Outro - “I Want More” by Silent Partner The Carry Trainer Higher Line Podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube and Stitcher.

The conversation in this episode builds on earlier conversation on microbiome and overall health with our special guest Kara Landau RDN. Here Kara discusses prebiotics, explains what it is, how it affects our health and how she is innovating to make it easier for people to incorporate prebiotics in their diet. About Kara Landau Kara Landau “The Prebiotic Dietitian” is an Australian Registered Dietitian, Author, and Founder of the prebiotic gut health brand - Uplift Food – Good Mood Food, based in New York City, USA. A previous spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, and now the nutrition advisor and media representative for the Global Prebiotic Association, Kara specializes in the connection between diet, gut health and mood, and the vital role of prebiotics for wellbeing. Regularly requested to provide expert opinion on gut health and entrepreneurship in the USA & Australia, Kara can be found quoted throughout titles such as Forbes, Shape, Elle, Elite Daily, Bustle, Womens Health, Mens Health, Readers Digest, MSN, and more; Together with taking the stage to present at industry events across the globe, including Expo West (USA), Supply Side West (USA), Healthy Ingredients (EU), The Microbiome Movement (USA), Naturally Good (AUS), Probiota (EU) and more. Founding Uplift Food – Good Mood Food: Dietitian created functional food brand to focus exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut healthy prebiotics, Kara successfully lead the company to receive the first ever minority investment from Mondelez Internationals SnackFutures new venture arm in 2019, and has released both the Daily Uplifter powdered supplement, together with the Gut Happy Cookies™, Prebiotic Bliss Bites™ and Prebiotic Puff™ functional snacking lines. Kara is on mission it to continue to educate, inspire, and make eating a prebiotic rich diet easy and enjoyable to all those that she can encounter. Qualifications: Bachelor Nutrition and Dietetics (Monash University, VIC) – APD, AN Masters Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Swinburne University of Technology, VIC) - MEI Certificate III & IV in Fitness (Australian Fitness Academy, VIC) To learn more, and connect with Kara: Website: https://www.upliftfood.com/ FoodNiche This podcast is made possible by FoodNiche, learn more on Foodnicher.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Jessica Turton is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) with postgraduate qualifications in Nutrition & Dietetics and full membership with the Dietitians Association of Australia. She is interested in developing, evaluating and improving dietetic strategies for the management of diabetes and is currently undertaking her Research Doctorate (Ph.D) at the University of Sydney. Research mentioned in this episode: Chartres, N., Fabbri, A., McDonald, S., Turton, J., Allman-Farinelli, M., McKenzie, J., & Bero, L. (2019). Association of industry ties with outcomes of studies examining the effect of wholegrain foods on cardiovascular disease and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open, 9(5), e022912. Turton, J., Brinkworth, G. D., Field, R., Parker, H., & Rooney, K. (2019). An evidence‐based approach to developing low‐carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes management: A systematic review of interventions and methods. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 21(11), 2513-2525. Turton, J. L., Struik, N. A., Riley, M., & Brinkworth, G. D. (2020). Adults with and without type 1 diabetes have similar energy and macronutrient intakes: an analysis from the Australian Health Survey 2011-2013. Nutrition Research, 84, 25-32.

Tune in as ‘The Prebiotic Dietitian', Kara Landau, RD, enlightens us on not only the resistant starch benefits of prebiotic containing foods, but understanding the difference between prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics. Plus, discover other nutrients and how they fuel overall wellness that can be found in prebiotic food sources. Interested in business in the nutrition space? Listen in to get an inside look at entrepreneurship as Kara Landau, RD shares on her experience of launching and running her brand, Uplift Food – Good Mood Food. ____ Kara Landau “The Prebiotic Dietitian” is a highly respected Australian Registered Dietitian, Author, and Founder of the prebiotic gut health brand - Uplift Food – Good Mood Food, based in New York City, USA. A previous spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, and now the nutrition advisor and media representative for the Global Prebiotic Association, Kara specializes in the connection between diet, gut health and mood, and the vital role of prebiotics for wellbeing. Regularly requested to provide expert opinion on gut health and entrepreneurship in the USA & Australia, Kara can be found quoted throughout titles such as Forbes, Shape, Elle, Elite Daily, Bustle, Womens Health, Mens Health, Readers Digest, MSN, and more; Together with taking the stage to present at industry events across the globe, including Expo West (USA), Supply Side West (USA), Healthy Ingredients (EU), The Microbiome Movement (USA), Naturally Good (AUS), Probiota (EU) and more. Founding Uplift Food – Good Mood Food: The world's first dietitian created functional food brand to focus exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut healthy prebiotics, Kara successfully lead the company to receive the first ever minority investment from Mondelez Internationals SnackFutures new venture arm in 2019, and has released both the Daily Uplifter powdered supplement, together with the Gut Happy Cookies™ functional snacking line. Kara is on mission it to continue to educate, inspire, and make eating a prebiotic rich diet easy and enjoyable to all those that she can encounter.

On Today's show, Damian sits down with Belinda Fettke and talks about her key discoveries on the invention of modern vegetarianism, how the food industry has funded and prostituted the modern nutrition and medicine textbooks, and saving her husband's surgical career by clearing his name throughout the world. We spoke about:   - Creating an INCLUSIVE diet for health, rather than an EXCLUSIVE diet for profits - The Dietitians Association of Australia's crusade against Dr Fettke, being funded by BigFood $$ - The total vindication of Dr Fettke and retraction of the AHPRA Medical Board's charges against his nutrition advice for patients with the complications of diabetes - The true origins of 20th and 21st century nutrition science- being based on a person's religious apparition in 1863 - How the Seventh-day Adventist Church invented commercial 'health food' and influenced modern nutrition, food guidelines, and helped shape dietetic textbooks and continuing education. - Where this all leaves us as individuals to create our own health through nutrition Find Belinda at www.isupportgary.com I am a Sleep, Stress and Human Nutrition Coach - if I can ever help- Let me know.
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Dr Hannah Mayr – Assistant Professor at Bond University and one of the expert presenters of the HealthCert Advanced Certificate of Medical Nutrition Management – delivers an insightful podcast on nutrition and dietary patterns and their role in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and management. In the podcast, Dr Mayr explains how a dietary pattern approach to CVD management differs from a traditional approach. ----more---- Dietary approaches towards CVD management have typically taken a nutrient-based focus, like lowering saturated fats or reducing sodium in the diet, or a focus on specific food groups, like vegetables. Often these approaches are targeted towards clinical risk factors, but fail to reflect how patients truly eat foods. A dietary pattern approach considers the combinations of foods that should make up a person's diet. It focuses on which types of foods are eaten regularly and which foods should be eaten less often, and can translate better into practical recommendations and is less prescriptive than traditional diets. About presenter - Dr Hannah Mayr Dr Hannah Mayr is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian who completed her PhD thesis at La Trobe University. Under the principal supervision of leading Mediterranean diet researcher, Prof Catherine Itsiopoulos, she investigated the effect of a Mediterranean versus low-fat diet on inflammation and adiposity in patients with coronary heart disease. Dr Mayr has published a number of reviews, methods and results-based papers within this work and received the ‘New Researcher Award' at the 2018 Dietitians Association of Australia National Conference for her thesis work exploring a novel dietary assessment tool, the Dietary Inflammatory Index.  Her research and practice interests are in dietary patterns and interventions, chronic disease and metabolic health. Dr Mayr currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Brisbane and externally with La Trobe, which includes activities to enable implementation of the Mediterranean diet into routine care for chronic disease management. At PAH she leads a mentorship group focused on research capacity building for clinical dietitians. She also teaches into the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics at Bond University and she is passionate about engaging dietetics students in research activities. Show notes Heart Foundation: Heart Healthy Eating Patterns: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/getmedia/e86eadc0-db35-4e71-815d-75614414f79a/Nutrition_Position_Statement_-_HHEP_FINAL-3.pdf Heart Foundation: Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/getmedia/463b101d-0741-47fb-8f89-09629d8cc6d4/Dietary_patterns_and_cardiovascular_disease_outcomes.pdf Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 8th Ed.: https://health.gov/our-work/food-nutrition/2015-2020-dietary-guidelines/guidelines/ If you have any questions for Dr Hannah Mayr, we invite you to join the free HealthCert Community at community.healthcert.com and comment your questions on this post.

Dr. Yasmine Probst is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, and a Research Fellow with the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute. She is recognized as an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian with the Dietitians Association of Australia, and a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics. She was recently featured in the very interesting documentary, Vitamania, in which the discussion around whether we should be taking vitamin supplements, was brought to the table. Yasmine and I discussed: What synthetic vitamins are made from What are the different types of vitamins? Living with MS Do we actually need supplements? The connection between food & disease Should our canine companions take vitamins? Is there a "best diet" for humans? How many vitamins we actually need And much more... Yasmine's Twitter My Take: Question everything, but don't get yourself in a frenzy. Just be aware of what you put into your body. Food companies have worked tirelessly to market their products as "natural" or "healthy", but often their actual ingredient list, tells a different story. Do your research. Support the Podcast

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. We are very excited to welcome Dr. Gary Fettke, a legend and a trail blazer in the LowCarb community, to the show. Dr. Fettke is an orthopedic surgeon from Tasmania who came to prominence through his vocal opposition to some of the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines. He was targeted by the cereal industry—who were in a paid contractural agreement with the Dietitians Association of Australia—who attempted to silence his anti-sugar, low carb message. In this episode, Dr. Fettke sheds light on the major influencers of the world’s dietary guidelines—the sugar industry and the Adventist Church Group (a religious group that effectively owns the cereal industry of the world, the soy industry, and started the fake meat industry). Both of these groups are also heavily influential in medical education. Additionally, we discuss the definition of diabetes, why sugar, carbs, and polyunsaturated oils are the perfect storm of dietary disaster, the effect that a ketogenic diet can have on arthritic pain, why CGMs are an incredible resource, the Maillard Reaction, the birth of the pharmaceutical industry, and how the medical industry has been influenced by external forces with private agendas. Gary Fettke’s rewriting of the Dietary Guidelines in one sentence: “We need to eat fresh, local, seasonal, whole foods, based in environmental and cultural beliefs, reducing added sugar and processed food.” For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Gary Fettke: Twitter No Fructose (Website) Instagram I Support Gary (Website) Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Dr. Kristin Baier: Website  

DietitianTertiary qualification in nutrition and dietetics recognised by national authorities.Dietitians apply the science of nutrition to the feeding and education of groups of people and individuals in health and diseaseDietitians are also qualified to provide evidence based nutrition services to individual dietary counselling, medical nutrition therapy, group dietary therapy, food service management, public health nutrition, policy and research, food industry and community health.A dietitian has undertaken a course of study that included substantial theory and supervised and assessed professional practice in clinical nutrition, medical nutrition therapy and food service management.APDs work in hospitals and private practice, government, research and teaching, public health and community nutrition, the food and medical nutrition industries, and nutrition marketing and communications.All APDs are automatically able to use the AN credential, because as part of their qualification in human nutrition, an APD has undertaken a course of study that has included supervised and assessed professional practice in public health nutrition, medical nutrition therapy and food service management.Accredited Practising Dietitian is the only credential recognised by the Australian Government, Medicare, the Department of Veterans Affairs and most private health funds as the quality standard for nutrition and dietetics services in Australia. APDs are committed to the Dietitians Association of Australia Code of Professional Conduct, continuing professional development and providing quality services. A register of all current APDs can be found on the DAA website.To maintain APD status, nutrition and dietetic professionals are required to undertake a specified level of continuing education and professional development to ensure currency of practice. APD status is reviewed annually by DAA.https://daa.asn.au/what-dietitans-do/dietitian-or-nutritionist/ NutritionistMay be tertiary qualified, but also may not be!It’s important to note that the term ‘nutritionist’ is not regulated, therefore, this title may be used by dietitians, nutrition scientists and nutrition graduates – and also those with very limited qualifications in nutrition.The Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA) has developed a voluntary Register of Nutritionists in Australia to help determine the level of training someone has undertaken.These Nutritionists may work in a number of other roles, including research, nutrition consultants and advisors, public health and health promotion officers, community development officers, quality and nutrition coordinators, food technologists, media spokespeople and more.APD = AN but AN does not = APD. ANs not qualified to provide medical nutrition therapy which includes individual and group dietary interventions.Any responsible ‘nutritionist’ will not be allowed to provide individualised dietary advice for any underlying medical condition - from diabetes to high cholesterol to IBS.There are currently no Medicare health fund rebates for clients of Nutritionists, and there is only limited private health insurance fund rebates for Nutritionists with some funds.https://www.nutritionaustralia.org/national/resource/nutritionist-or-dietitian NaturopathNaturopathy takes a holistic approach to wellness.Interventions - see belowSource: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331789476_An_evidence_based_overview_of_naturopathic_practice_in_AustraliaA professional naturopath is someone who has completed, at a minimum, an Advanced Diploma in either Naturopathy or Health Science, is registered with a professional body and is insured appropriately.Aus gov warnings:Naturopathy is not a treatment for specific illness or disease. Naturopathy is a complementary therapy in that it may be used alongside other medical and therapeutic techniques. Always be guided by your doctor or specialist before using naturopathy for any serious or chronic illness. Treat as suspect any practitioner who advises you to abandon your conventional medical treatment.Regulation = self regulation only - voluntary and not governed https://www.nhaa.org.au/mediareleases/be-informed/regulation-of-practitionershttps://www.nhaa.org.au/mediareleases/be-informed/regulation-of-practitionershttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-21/unregulated_naturopaths_putting_lives_at_risk/40276Whilst developments such as the Code of Conduct for Unregistered Practitioners certainly help, they do not replace proper regulation of major professions.End of insurance subsidies in 2017 due to lack of evidence to support efficacyhttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/australia-ends-insurance-subsidies-for-naturopathy-homeopathy-and-more/Impact https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331789476_An_evidence_based_overview_of_naturopathic_practice_in_Australiahttps://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4839.0~2016-17~Main%20Features~General%20practitioners~2https://www.racgp.org.au/download/Documents/Publications/Health-of-the-Nation-2018-Report.pdfhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-21/unregulated_naturopaths_putting_lives_at_risk/40276https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331789476_An_evidence_based_overview_of_naturopathic_practice_in_Australiahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30785315What an influencer doesResearch from the University of Glasgow found that almost 90% of social media influencers are sharing inaccurate and potentially harmful nutrition and weight loss advice.https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/912360 DietitiansDr Nicole Kiss - follow on Twitter @NicoleKissDr Tim Crowe - follow on Twitter @CroweTim, listen to podcast Thinking NutritionHayley Blieden  - https://austsuperfoods.com.au/ NutritionistsMelissa Eaton - follow on Instagram @eatonbalancedJules Tellidis -  follow on Instagram @wholesomehungryNaturopathsAbby Dolphin - https://olivewellnessinstitute.org/admember/abby-dolphin/Bianca Potenta - https://hwstudio.com.au/

Today's podcast is an interview with Kara Landau. Kara, known as “The Prebiotic Dietitian,” is a highly respected NYC based Australian Registered Dietitian and Founder of Uplift Food – Good Mood Food - The world's first dietitian created functional food brand to focus exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut healthy prebiotics. A previous spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, and now the media representative nutrition advisor for the Global Prebiotic Association, Kara has been recognised as an entrepreneurial leader in the prebiotic space by Forbes, Women's Health and more; and can regularly be found presenting across the globe at leading gut health and industry trade shows on the importance of prebiotics and their role in your diet.  Follow her on Instagram as The Prebiotic Dietitian, or find her online at upliftfood.com. 

The Power of Plants. Dietitian Emma Strut shares some amazing case histories of a whole-food plant-based diet dramatically improving the lives of her patients. Emma is a registered dietitian and nutritionist, earning her degree from the University of the Sunshine Coast. Initially working within the hospital system, she now runs a private practice and also works as a Research Assistant at a QLD medical research institute. Emma holds a Certificate in Plant-Based nutrition through eCornell University/ T Colin Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies and is a qualified yoga teacher. Emma has been a vegan for over a decade and passionately advocates the benefits of plant-based nutrition through her private practice work, in addition to a wellbeing and education program she developed for members of her local community. Emma is a member of the Doctors For Nutrition advisory board, and their lead dietitian for QLD. Emma is also a member of the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. www.greenstuffnutrition.com https://www.instagram.com/greenstuff_nutrition/ https://www.facebook.com/greenstuffnutrition/ (TVH is proudly presented by https://www.facebook.com/veganfrotherz/ and https://www.facebook.com/syndianproducts/)

Nothing winds up my anti-diet nutritionist guest Tara Leong more than the influencer-led anti-sugar movement. She is in FITS of rage - to the point of goosebumps - about the mountains of misinformation being spread as liberally as nut butter. She’s LIVID about harm being done to innocent people who are being told that they’ll risk giving their kids cancer if they eat bananas. She is OUTRAGED by the misleading tactics being used by these for-profit companies who aren’t able to print the truth on their nutrition labels. She is f***ed off about fructose. And don’t even get her STARTED on the fruit pyramid! Join us for a much needed discussion about the anti-sugar movement, Tara’s attempts to reach out to Australia’s anti-sugar guru Sarah Wilson, and Sarah’s foray into mental health advice. This is one hell of a conversation!     ShowNotes My guest is Tara Leong from The Nutritionist & The Chef, and she is fired up to the point of GOOSEBUMPS about the influencer-lead I Quit Sugar (IQS) trend! Sugar is definitely public enemy #1 right now, and this global sense of fear is impacting everyone, from all ages and all walks of life. We’ve seen various foods demonised over the years, from fats, to carbs, and now sugars. And leaders of these food fad movements have historically been weight loss gurus or medical professionals. But the anti-sugar trend seems to be dominated by “influencers” spruiking their lifestyle brands. There have been some medical professionals - like Dr Lustig who loves to crow about sugar. But in Australia, the shiny beautiful people, like Sarah Wilson, are really heading up the anti sugar movement. Tara commends Sarah for raising awareness about how we can take care of our bodies, but the messages put out via her “I Quit Sugar” social media channels and in the book “I Quit Sugar” are not based on science and are destructive, especially with regards to the impact these messages have on people’s relationship with food. The whole Sarah Wilson/“I Quit Sugar” phenomenon traces back to 2011. Sarah is a journalist and was the ex editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, back then she was a judge on the first season of Masterchef. After that she moved to Byron Bay and began to freelance, writing articles for newspapers. She literally didn’t have a topic for an article one week, and had read David Gillespie’s “Sweet Poison” book (Gillespie is a lawyer). So she did an experiment quitting sugar, wrote about it, and the “I Quit Sugar” machine was born. She started to sell e-books and from there it became a massive empire. She caught the Zeitgeist - just at the start of the anti-sugar climate. Plus, she’s pretty and can write well, and is well connected. This also came at the tail end of the low-fat movement, when research began to recognise that fat wasn’t actually a villain - so we needed a new villain. Enter sugar! Wellness industry 101: 1. Find the villain, 2. Find very vague modern health symptoms like ‘brain fog’ or ‘bloating’, and blame this on the villain, 3. Use your own vague health symptoms to glowing health story as ‘proof’, 4. Sell people a rule-based program to rid themselves of aforementioned villain. I Quit Sugar (IQS) requires people to stop eating any added sugars for 8 weeks. This was beautifully skewered on “The Katering Show”, 2 comedians with a parody cooking show who did a great job of showing, through comedy, just how awful it is to quit sugar. Modern influencers are using this tactic of telling their own stories, of sharing their own tales of ‘recovery’ from vague health symptoms, to sell their ideas. Influencers use their humanity, their accessibility, they are friendly and you feel like you know them. Whereas health professionals are discouraged from sharing their own stories with clients as it is not seens as ‘professional’, especially in psychology where the space is created for the client, not the psychologist. Influencers use their stories as aspirations, as hope - and of course, thinness! “If you eat like me, you’ll end up being like me as I eat zoodles on my $20000 table! Some of the claims in IQS are quite strange. Sarah talks about having Graves disease, and then later on, Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, which pricked up Louise’s ears, as she has Hashimotos’. She is of the understanding that this condition is largely genetic, and no-one is really sure as to why it switches on. As someone with the condition, Louise has to take a pill every day and has blood tests every 3 months. It is not an easy condition to control - it is something that is always changing. Louise knows that what you eat has bugger all to do with developing Hashimotos’. But on IQS Sarah implies - strongly - that quitting sugar will cure it. Sarah’s claim that a change in her sugar consumption ‘cured’ it ignores the fact that she also takes medication to control it. This is a confound - you cannot claim that autoimmune disease can be cured by not eating sugar if you’re taking meds at the same time. If you want to promote eating in a way that makes you feel good, there’s no issue. But if you want to demonise one thing - ie sugar - there’s an issue! Tara also recognises the wonderful array of nutrients that can be excluded when you promote something as stringent as IQS. A while ago, Tara found a very fancy looking ‘fruit pyramid’ which was presented in a similar way to the old ‘food pyramid’ which used to be promoted as a way to eat. A pyramid is where foods on the bottom are ‘eat lot’ and foods on the top are don’t eat’, or ‘eat very little of’. So the team at IQS developed a fruit hierarchy, and at the top there were bananas! And the fruits you can eat ‘every day’ are berries! Raspberries, lemons & avocados. Now Tara needs to unpack this. Firstly, avocados are not a fruit. Botanically, yes, but not nutritionally - they don’t provide carbohydrates, they provide more fats. Who’s going to slice up a lemon for a tasty snack?! “I really struggle with the ethics of telling people they can only eat raspberries”. Tara calculated that for a family of 4, in order to meet nutritional requirements, a family of 4 would spend around $250 per week on raspberries alone. This is privileged, ridiculous nonsense. To not have even thought of things like expense? And the comments from people thanking IQS for telling them that bananas were dangerous. Tara had a heartbreaking message from a mum who was having a huge panic attack because she was so worried she’s given her kids cancer. The no. 1 pathway into an eating disorder nowadays, for Louise’s clients anyway, is this huge fear of foods and what are considered ‘healthy’ foods. The pro-IQS community really seem to disregard the risk of eating disorder development. Like it’s ‘not a thing’. In preparation for this podcast, Louise has been reading Sarah Wilson’s latest book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful”. This is her story and she really is open about her lifelong mental health struggles. In it she reveals she had a childhood diagnosis of severe anxiety and insomnia, in her teens severe OCD, and then bulimia, and then bipolar disorder. Louise admires Sarah for writing such a raw and real book about the reality of living with severe mental illness. She is clearly a very intelligent person. But you can see the anxiety in the pages. You can see the pressure of the bipolar. So here is the ethical question - should authors with diagnoses such as these be giving full disclosure before giving out ‘dietary advice’? Especially when one of the diagnoses is an eating disorder? So here we are in the land of the ‘influencer’. Sarah is a journalist who has gone & obtained a health coaching ‘credential’ with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York. Tara has something to say about this Institute. This Institute looks pretty impressive. On their website it says you can study for 6 months and get the health coaching certificate. But you don’t study physiology, chemistry, or anatomy. You just study all the different types of diets out there and whether or not they’re ‘good’. “If I was running an Institute where I’m comparing diets I’d be like - let’s close, because none of them work”! So the degree should be - everything doesn’t work. Here’s your piece of paper! Go out & tell everyone why your diet won’t work - how good would that be! Tara has found that the IQS people always claim that it’s not a diet. They always claim that it’s not restrictive. But Tara cannot fathom how telling someone to cut out a whole food source for 8 weeks is not restrictive? Modern diet culture tells people, if you’re not counting calories it’s not a diet. The recipes are interesting, often full of rice malt syrup, which is of course, sugar. For a while, Louise remembers seeing a whole row of IQS baking products - cakes etc - in the supermarket. And they got in trouble for not being honest on their labels about how much sugar was in them. They only wrote down the sugar content before the rice malt syrup was added, which is of course totally misleading for consumers.* Tara finds this highly unethical & wonders how this was able to happen according to Australian laws surrounding nutrition panels. Rice malt syrup is sugar derived from rice. It does not contain fructose, but it is definitely still sugar. Louise went into a book shop to read IQS. There was a whole page on why you have to quit sugar: because of fructose. So what’s the deal with fructose? Fructose is found naturally in fruit. In the USA, it is manufactured from corn, resulting in what is called high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This is a highly concentrated version of fructose. This is put into soft drink, in the USA - not in Australia. We use sugar cane syrup, so the fructose is at much lower levels of concentration. Research on the health issues linking consumption of HFCS has been done mostly on rats and mice, and they have been exposed to mega-doses of HFCS in these experiments. So we cannot say that the health problems are happening because of the HFCS or just the mega dose. We could all develop health problems if we mega dosed on broccoli! We also can’t generalise rodent studies to human health. So the problem we have is someone not trained in physiology reads these studies and jumps to enormous conclusions. Just because some American rats OD’d on high fructose corn syrup doesn’t mean we shouldn’t eat bananas! Most of the people spouting the IQS ideas are not adequately qualified or trained in the science of nutrition. There are some medical people talking about it, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Many influencers are not reading the research thoroughly or just cherry picking research that supports their ideas, which is not in the spirit of science! Nutrition science is hard, and complex. The relationship between our health and what we eat is confounded by many factors. One important aspect which is never spoken about by these influencers are issues like poverty, oppression, and even the impact of dieting itself, and the anxiety and food guilt created by such nervous attention to food. What Tara doesn’t like is when a professional such as herself speaks up - in a calm manner - to enquire about the harm being potentially done - and they don’t engage. So with the fruit pyramid issue, Tara politely enquired if the IQS people could share with her the research to support the pyramid. They responded by saying there is ‘lots out there’, but also said that the IQS program is not based on science but a “gentle experiment”. This is mind blowing - telling people they can’t eat bananas, telling them to eat only expensive fruits, charging people $99 for this program, making promises to reduce weight and depression - but none of it is based on science? Tara cannot fathom how that is ok to do that to people. “You can’t give a rigid rule and then call it a gentle experiment” - that’s gaslighting. This is modern diet culture. Everything’s exactly the same. We’ve still got the rigid rules, we’ve still got the ‘this is the way to diet’. Except we’re no longer allowed to call it a diet, or pursue weight loss. We’ve got to talk about wellness or healing really ill defined things. And then use the language of self compassion to turn this into something loving and gentle. And its really not! So, IQS is huge - it has made millions of dollars. Last year Sarah decided to shut the IQS company and move on. She’s very much into the environment etc, reducing food waste. And she’s written the book, First, we Make the Beast Beautiful, a very detailed account of her complex mental health issues. And the question is, should she have disclosed this while she was selling IQS? Louise can understand why she wouldn’t have, this is very personal and private information. But if someone has a history of severe mental illness and an eating disorder, jumping on the food advice bandwagon is, in Louise’s opinion, of concern. In a recent article from the UK, Sarah was interviewed by a reported who had an eating disorder background herself, and the interview did not go well for Sarah. Through the reporter’s eyes, Sarah presented as someone who still had eating issues. And the interview did claim that Sarah had given up on quitting sugar, a claim which Sarah has since vehemently denied. Sarah has claimed she was misquoted, and IQS has done an interview with Sarah to present her side. Tara contacted Sarah on social media to ask her if she had quit the IQS movement, and also put some questions to her regarding the potential harm that IQS has caused. Sarah then posted that she had been bullied by Tara, and by the journalist. She also said that someone with mental health issues should never be bullied. Tara then apologised, and asked for clarification about what Sarah felt had been misquoted in the article. She offered Sarah the opportunity to detail what was wrong about the article and said she would share this with her followers in order to clear it up. She gave Sarah her phone, email and other contact numbers. But she did not respond, and actually went offline for a couple of days. Tara can see how this would have been hard for Sarah - being questioned in public, on social media, about your philosophy, is not easy. Tara gets it: she has her own lived experience with PTSD, and close family members are experiencing severe mental health issues. But Tara does not think this means it is ok to hide accountability behind. She believes it may be a reason, but not an excuse. This has not been easy for Tara either - many in her profession have commended her for having the guts to speak up, some have questioned her. But she doesn’t do it for ‘reputation’ - she does it for her clients. When you see such large numbers of people being harmed by the IQS messages, it’s impossible to stay quiet. It’s not about herself. It’s about all of the people out there who are suffering, and using her voice to stick up for them. "Sometimes I feel like I have an ethical duty to speak up for the general public". In the book, it is clear that Sarah has a big heart, and a big brain. She is genuinely trying to help people, and herself. It’s not easy to live with bipolar disorder, severe anxiety, OCD. But in the book Sarah also talks about being diagnosed with an eating disorder - bulimia - and for that, she has not had treatment. She has had all kinds of treatment for her anxiety. But not for the eating issues, which are very much absent from an otherwise very thorough exploration of her mental health. Louise is a biased too, with her eating disorder hat on, but surely that aspect of mental health has to come into this too? Understanding anxiety is important, and an eating disorder for many people is a way of controlling anxiety by controlling food. Sarah talks frequently about her anxiety as a constant grasping at things to give her a sense of safety in the world. So you can see how controlling what she eats, and having clear lists of foods to eat, could control her anxiety. This kind of connection is not made in the book. And for Louise, it’s a missing piece. People writing self help books are in a position of power. It’s not ok to put responsibility back into the lap of the consumer! Tara has copped criticism for calling Sarah out on this topic, even from fellow health professionals. But she asks: where do we draw the line? Do people have carte blanche to just say anything they like, and then withdraw responsibility by citing poor mental health? We’re grappling now with this question, if someone has a mental health issue can they say anything, cause harm, and that’s ok? Trump’s feelings are also potentially hurt, but people are much less upset about it! Is this a gender thing? What would have happened if it was Paleo Pete coming out with a history of severe mental health issues!? We don’t have the answers, but it is important to have this conversation. Tara has reflected and learned a lot from this experience. Maybe Sarah Wilson has, who knows? Tara’s hope is that if a nutrition professional reaches out to an influencer, they’ll at least listen and have that conversation. If Tara was told that some of her advice had caused harm, she’d be concerned and working at understanding the situation and make sure it doesn’t happen again. But we don’t see this with influencers. The Paleo Pete disaster when he wanted to publish a book with a ‘bone broth’ recipe for babies that was so dangerous it could cause death. Pete was contacted by hundreds of health professionals and organisations pleading with him not to do harm. So he self published the book anyway! Wouldn’t you at some stage check in with yourself? Or just blatantly double down? It reflects the strength of these people’s belief in their nutrition camps. Throughout Sarah’s book is peppered this assumption that sugar is bad. She even tells people that in order to fully recover from anxiety, you definitely need to quit sugar! And that’s not an interpretation, it’s down there in her book, in black & white. “You need to quit sugar. Down to 6-9 teaspoons a day”. That’s not a gentle experiment! This is written in a book for people who are living with anxiety. Because this comes from her belief system, in which anxiety is either caused or worsened by fructose, the book has all of these ideas which are very damaging and could ultimately increase people’s food anxiety. That fear of sugar will create or exacerbate the anxiety which the book is apparently all about alleviating. No-one with an eating disorder can read this book. Also, no one in a larger body can read this book - it’s very fat phobic. There is research on gut health to show that plant foods with lots of fibre can improve our gut health, and that can be linked to mental health. When you quit sugar, you likely eat more plant foods, and that increase is what’s responsible for any improvements, rather than the absence of sugar per say. In intuitive eating, it’s all about adding foods, not taking them away. What’s annoying is this increasing normalising of sugar as a bad thing across our society. Kids are picking up on it. Tara’s 5 year old daughter did a lesson in class on how much sugar was in a can of coke! She’s 5! The world that Tara & I live in - we work in the intensive care ward for eating concerns - and we are seeing people flood in, casualties of the anti-sugar crusade. Sugar is the “devil right now’, and as health professionals it is ok that we are concerned. We’re not picking on any 1 person, we’re talking about figureheads of a movement. We need to remember who we’re trying to protect. It’s our kids. Tara hopes that the influencers can see that nutrition professionals are genuinely helping people - we see genuine concern, genuine problems. Tara is not just a schill for Big Sugar! Tara was asked by “The Conversation” to write an article about the dangers of sugar. Instead, she wrote an article about the dangers of always talking about sugar in a negative way. It ended up being one of the most read articles The Conversation had ever published. Tara was blasted by anti-sugar people for ‘giving people diabetes’. All because she used her scientific knowledge to suggest a much less extreme approach to sugar. And of course people suggested she’s been paid off by “Big Sugar” to write the article. She wasn’t! Good things can happen when people push back and ask questions - for example at the end of last year, the Dietitians Association of Australia stopped taking funding from big food companies. But this absolute demonisation of one food group is just ill advised and short sighted. Resources: Find out more about Tara Leong, including her fabulous anti-diet merchandise, here. The wonderful Katering Show & its wonderful IQS satire The bizarre IQS Fruit Pyramid: The now-closed “I Quit Sugar” empire, which still sells the books etc. Sarah Wilson’s book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful” *Here is the article about the misleading food labels on the IQS range - note that the products were not actually removed from shelves, but they were discussed as misleading. The Daily Mail article by Eve Simmons claiming that Sarah Wilson had quit quitting sugar (strongly contested by Sarah Wilson) Paleo Pete & his baby killing bone broth Tara’s amazing article in The Conversation about the dangers of talking about sugar as the new devil  

Nothing winds up my anti-diet nutritionist guest Tara Leong more than the influencer-led anti-sugar movement. She is in FITS of rage - to the point of goosebumps - about the mountains of misinformation being spread as liberally as nut butter. She’s LIVID about harm being done to innocent people who are being told that they’ll risk giving their kids cancer if they eat bananas. She is OUTRAGED by the misleading tactics being used by these for-profit companies who aren’t able to print the truth on their nutrition labels. She is f***ed off about fructose. And don’t even get her STARTED on the fruit pyramid! Join us for a much needed discussion about the anti-sugar movement, Tara’s attempts to reach out to Australia’s anti-sugar guru Sarah Wilson, and Sarah’s foray into mental health advice. This is one hell of a conversation!     ShowNotes My guest is Tara Leong from The Nutritionist & The Chef, and she is fired up to the point of GOOSEBUMPS about the influencer-lead I Quit Sugar (IQS) trend! Sugar is definitely public enemy #1 right now, and this global sense of fear is impacting everyone, from all ages and all walks of life. We’ve seen various foods demonised over the years, from fats, to carbs, and now sugars. And leaders of these food fad movements have historically been weight loss gurus or medical professionals. But the anti-sugar trend seems to be dominated by “influencers” spruiking their lifestyle brands. There have been some medical professionals - like Dr Lustig who loves to crow about sugar. But in Australia, the shiny beautiful people, like Sarah Wilson, are really heading up the anti sugar movement. Tara commends Sarah for raising awareness about how we can take care of our bodies, but the messages put out via her “I Quit Sugar” social media channels and in the book “I Quit Sugar” are not based on science and are destructive, especially with regards to the impact these messages have on people’s relationship with food. The whole Sarah Wilson/“I Quit Sugar” phenomenon traces back to 2011. Sarah is a journalist and was the ex editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, back then she was a judge on the first season of Masterchef. After that she moved to Byron Bay and began to freelance, writing articles for newspapers. She literally didn’t have a topic for an article one week, and had read David Gillespie’s “Sweet Poison” book (Gillespie is a lawyer). So she did an experiment quitting sugar, wrote about it, and the “I Quit Sugar” machine was born. She started to sell e-books and from there it became a massive empire. She caught the Zeitgeist - just at the start of the anti-sugar climate. Plus, she’s pretty and can write well, and is well connected. This also came at the tail end of the low-fat movement, when research began to recognise that fat wasn’t actually a villain - so we needed a new villain. Enter sugar! Wellness industry 101: 1. Find the villain, 2. Find very vague modern health symptoms like ‘brain fog’ or ‘bloating’, and blame this on the villain, 3. Use your own vague health symptoms to glowing health story as ‘proof’, 4. Sell people a rule-based program to rid themselves of aforementioned villain. I Quit Sugar (IQS) requires people to stop eating any added sugars for 8 weeks. This was beautifully skewered on “The Katering Show”, 2 comedians with a parody cooking show who did a great job of showing, through comedy, just how awful it is to quit sugar. Modern influencers are using this tactic of telling their own stories, of sharing their own tales of ‘recovery’ from vague health symptoms, to sell their ideas. Influencers use their humanity, their accessibility, they are friendly and you feel like you know them. Whereas health professionals are discouraged from sharing their own stories with clients as it is not seens as ‘professional’, especially in psychology where the space is created for the client, not the psychologist. Influencers use their stories as aspirations, as hope - and of course, thinness! “If you eat like me, you’ll end up being like me as I eat zoodles on my $20000 table! Some of the claims in IQS are quite strange. Sarah talks about having Graves disease, and then later on, Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, which pricked up Louise’s ears, as she has Hashimotos’. She is of the understanding that this condition is largely genetic, and no-one is really sure as to why it switches on. As someone with the condition, Louise has to take a pill every day and has blood tests every 3 months. It is not an easy condition to control - it is something that is always changing. Louise knows that what you eat has bugger all to do with developing Hashimotos’. But on IQS Sarah implies - strongly - that quitting sugar will cure it. Sarah’s claim that a change in her sugar consumption ‘cured’ it ignores the fact that she also takes medication to control it. This is a confound - you cannot claim that autoimmune disease can be cured by not eating sugar if you’re taking meds at the same time. If you want to promote eating in a way that makes you feel good, there’s no issue. But if you want to demonise one thing - ie sugar - there’s an issue! Tara also recognises the wonderful array of nutrients that can be excluded when you promote something as stringent as IQS. A while ago, Tara found a very fancy looking ‘fruit pyramid’ which was presented in a similar way to the old ‘food pyramid’ which used to be promoted as a way to eat. A pyramid is where foods on the bottom are ‘eat lot’ and foods on the top are don’t eat’, or ‘eat very little of’. So the team at IQS developed a fruit hierarchy, and at the top there were bananas! And the fruits you can eat ‘every day’ are berries! Raspberries, lemons & avocados. Now Tara needs to unpack this. Firstly, avocados are not a fruit. Botanically, yes, but not nutritionally - they don’t provide carbohydrates, they provide more fats. Who’s going to slice up a lemon for a tasty snack?! “I really struggle with the ethics of telling people they can only eat raspberries”. Tara calculated that for a family of 4, in order to meet nutritional requirements, a family of 4 would spend around $250 per week on raspberries alone. This is privileged, ridiculous nonsense. To not have even thought of things like expense? And the comments from people thanking IQS for telling them that bananas were dangerous. Tara had a heartbreaking message from a mum who was having a huge panic attack because she was so worried she’s given her kids cancer. The no. 1 pathway into an eating disorder nowadays, for Louise’s clients anyway, is this huge fear of foods and what are considered ‘healthy’ foods. The pro-IQS community really seem to disregard the risk of eating disorder development. Like it’s ‘not a thing’. In preparation for this podcast, Louise has been reading Sarah Wilson’s latest book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful”. This is her story and she really is open about her lifelong mental health struggles. In it she reveals she had a childhood diagnosis of severe anxiety and insomnia, in her teens severe OCD, and then bulimia, and then bipolar disorder. Louise admires Sarah for writing such a raw and real book about the reality of living with severe mental illness. She is clearly a very intelligent person. But you can see the anxiety in the pages. You can see the pressure of the bipolar. So here is the ethical question - should authors with diagnoses such as these be giving full disclosure before giving out ‘dietary advice’? Especially when one of the diagnoses is an eating disorder? So here we are in the land of the ‘influencer’. Sarah is a journalist who has gone & obtained a health coaching ‘credential’ with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York. Tara has something to say about this Institute. This Institute looks pretty impressive. On their website it says you can study for 6 months and get the health coaching certificate. But you don’t study physiology, chemistry, or anatomy. You just study all the different types of diets out there and whether or not they’re ‘good’. “If I was running an Institute where I’m comparing diets I’d be like - let’s close, because none of them work”! So the degree should be - everything doesn’t work. Here’s your piece of paper! Go out & tell everyone why your diet won’t work - how good would that be! Tara has found that the IQS people always claim that it’s not a diet. They always claim that it’s not restrictive. But Tara cannot fathom how telling someone to cut out a whole food source for 8 weeks is not restrictive? Modern diet culture tells people, if you’re not counting calories it’s not a diet. The recipes are interesting, often full of rice malt syrup, which is of course, sugar. For a while, Louise remembers seeing a whole row of IQS baking products - cakes etc - in the supermarket. And they got in trouble for not being honest on their labels about how much sugar was in them. They only wrote down the sugar content before the rice malt syrup was added, which is of course totally misleading for consumers.* Tara finds this highly unethical & wonders how this was able to happen according to Australian laws surrounding nutrition panels. Rice malt syrup is sugar derived from rice. It does not contain fructose, but it is definitely still sugar. Louise went into a book shop to read IQS. There was a whole page on why you have to quit sugar: because of fructose. So what’s the deal with fructose? Fructose is found naturally in fruit. In the USA, it is manufactured from corn, resulting in what is called high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This is a highly concentrated version of fructose. This is put into soft drink, in the USA - not in Australia. We use sugar cane syrup, so the fructose is at much lower levels of concentration. Research on the health issues linking consumption of HFCS has been done mostly on rats and mice, and they have been exposed to mega-doses of HFCS in these experiments. So we cannot say that the health problems are happening because of the HFCS or just the mega dose. We could all develop health problems if we mega dosed on broccoli! We also can’t generalise rodent studies to human health. So the problem we have is someone not trained in physiology reads these studies and jumps to enormous conclusions. Just because some American rats OD’d on high fructose corn syrup doesn’t mean we shouldn’t eat bananas! Most of the people spouting the IQS ideas are not adequately qualified or trained in the science of nutrition. There are some medical people talking about it, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Many influencers are not reading the research thoroughly or just cherry picking research that supports their ideas, which is not in the spirit of science! Nutrition science is hard, and complex. The relationship between our health and what we eat is confounded by many factors. One important aspect which is never spoken about by these influencers are issues like poverty, oppression, and even the impact of dieting itself, and the anxiety and food guilt created by such nervous attention to food. What Tara doesn’t like is when a professional such as herself speaks up - in a calm manner - to enquire about the harm being potentially done - and they don’t engage. So with the fruit pyramid issue, Tara politely enquired if the IQS people could share with her the research to support the pyramid. They responded by saying there is ‘lots out there’, but also said that the IQS program is not based on science but a “gentle experiment”. This is mind blowing - telling people they can’t eat bananas, telling them to eat only expensive fruits, charging people $99 for this program, making promises to reduce weight and depression - but none of it is based on science? Tara cannot fathom how that is ok to do that to people. “You can’t give a rigid rule and then call it a gentle experiment” - that’s gaslighting. This is modern diet culture. Everything’s exactly the same. We’ve still got the rigid rules, we’ve still got the ‘this is the way to diet’. Except we’re no longer allowed to call it a diet, or pursue weight loss. We’ve got to talk about wellness or healing really ill defined things. And then use the language of self compassion to turn this into something loving and gentle. And its really not! So, IQS is huge - it has made millions of dollars. Last year Sarah decided to shut the IQS company and move on. She’s very much into the environment etc, reducing food waste. And she’s written the book, First, we Make the Beast Beautiful, a very detailed account of her complex mental health issues. And the question is, should she have disclosed this while she was selling IQS? Louise can understand why she wouldn’t have, this is very personal and private information. But if someone has a history of severe mental illness and an eating disorder, jumping on the food advice bandwagon is, in Louise’s opinion, of concern. In a recent article from the UK, Sarah was interviewed by a reported who had an eating disorder background herself, and the interview did not go well for Sarah. Through the reporter’s eyes, Sarah presented as someone who still had eating issues. And the interview did claim that Sarah had given up on quitting sugar, a claim which Sarah has since vehemently denied. Sarah has claimed she was misquoted, and IQS has done an interview with Sarah to present her side. Tara contacted Sarah on social media to ask her if she had quit the IQS movement, and also put some questions to her regarding the potential harm that IQS has caused. Sarah then posted that she had been bullied by Tara, and by the journalist. She also said that someone with mental health issues should never be bullied. Tara then apologised, and asked for clarification about what Sarah felt had been misquoted in the article. She offered Sarah the opportunity to detail what was wrong about the article and said she would share this with her followers in order to clear it up. She gave Sarah her phone, email and other contact numbers. But she did not respond, and actually went offline for a couple of days. Tara can see how this would have been hard for Sarah - being questioned in public, on social media, about your philosophy, is not easy. Tara gets it: she has her own lived experience with PTSD, and close family members are experiencing severe mental health issues. But Tara does not think this means it is ok to hide accountability behind. She believes it may be a reason, but not an excuse. This has not been easy for Tara either - many in her profession have commended her for having the guts to speak up, some have questioned her. But she doesn’t do it for ‘reputation’ - she does it for her clients. When you see such large numbers of people being harmed by the IQS messages, it’s impossible to stay quiet. It’s not about herself. It’s about all of the people out there who are suffering, and using her voice to stick up for them. "Sometimes I feel like I have an ethical duty to speak up for the general public". In the book, it is clear that Sarah has a big heart, and a big brain. She is genuinely trying to help people, and herself. It’s not easy to live with bipolar disorder, severe anxiety, OCD. But in the book Sarah also talks about being diagnosed with an eating disorder - bulimia - and for that, she has not had treatment. She has had all kinds of treatment for her anxiety. But not for the eating issues, which are very much absent from an otherwise very thorough exploration of her mental health. Louise is a biased too, with her eating disorder hat on, but surely that aspect of mental health has to come into this too? Understanding anxiety is important, and an eating disorder for many people is a way of controlling anxiety by controlling food. Sarah talks frequently about her anxiety as a constant grasping at things to give her a sense of safety in the world. So you can see how controlling what she eats, and having clear lists of foods to eat, could control her anxiety. This kind of connection is not made in the book. And for Louise, it’s a missing piece. People writing self help books are in a position of power. It’s not ok to put responsibility back into the lap of the consumer! Tara has copped criticism for calling Sarah out on this topic, even from fellow health professionals. But she asks: where do we draw the line? Do people have carte blanche to just say anything they like, and then withdraw responsibility by citing poor mental health? We’re grappling now with this question, if someone has a mental health issue can they say anything, cause harm, and that’s ok? Trump’s feelings are also potentially hurt, but people are much less upset about it! Is this a gender thing? What would have happened if it was Paleo Pete coming out with a history of severe mental health issues!? We don’t have the answers, but it is important to have this conversation. Tara has reflected and learned a lot from this experience. Maybe Sarah Wilson has, who knows? Tara’s hope is that if a nutrition professional reaches out to an influencer, they’ll at least listen and have that conversation. If Tara was told that some of her advice had caused harm, she’d be concerned and working at understanding the situation and make sure it doesn’t happen again. But we don’t see this with influencers. The Paleo Pete disaster when he wanted to publish a book with a ‘bone broth’ recipe for babies that was so dangerous it could cause death. Pete was contacted by hundreds of health professionals and organisations pleading with him not to do harm. So he self published the book anyway! Wouldn’t you at some stage check in with yourself? Or just blatantly double down? It reflects the strength of these people’s belief in their nutrition camps. Throughout Sarah’s book is peppered this assumption that sugar is bad. She even tells people that in order to fully recover from anxiety, you definitely need to quit sugar! And that’s not an interpretation, it’s down there in her book, in black & white. “You need to quit sugar. Down to 6-9 teaspoons a day”. That’s not a gentle experiment! This is written in a book for people who are living with anxiety. Because this comes from her belief system, in which anxiety is either caused or worsened by fructose, the book has all of these ideas which are very damaging and could ultimately increase people’s food anxiety. That fear of sugar will create or exacerbate the anxiety which the book is apparently all about alleviating. No-one with an eating disorder can read this book. Also, no one in a larger body can read this book - it’s very fat phobic. There is research on gut health to show that plant foods with lots of fibre can improve our gut health, and that can be linked to mental health. When you quit sugar, you likely eat more plant foods, and that increase is what’s responsible for any improvements, rather than the absence of sugar per say. In intuitive eating, it’s all about adding foods, not taking them away. What’s annoying is this increasing normalising of sugar as a bad thing across our society. Kids are picking up on it. Tara’s 5 year old daughter did a lesson in class on how much sugar was in a can of coke! She’s 5! The world that Tara & I live in - we work in the intensive care ward for eating concerns - and we are seeing people flood in, casualties of the anti-sugar crusade. Sugar is the “devil right now’, and as health professionals it is ok that we are concerned. We’re not picking on any 1 person, we’re talking about figureheads of a movement. We need to remember who we’re trying to protect. It’s our kids. Tara hopes that the influencers can see that nutrition professionals are genuinely helping people - we see genuine concern, genuine problems. Tara is not just a schill for Big Sugar! Tara was asked by “The Conversation” to write an article about the dangers of sugar. Instead, she wrote an article about the dangers of always talking about sugar in a negative way. It ended up being one of the most read articles The Conversation had ever published. Tara was blasted by anti-sugar people for ‘giving people diabetes’. All because she used her scientific knowledge to suggest a much less extreme approach to sugar. And of course people suggested she’s been paid off by “Big Sugar” to write the article. She wasn’t! Good things can happen when people push back and ask questions - for example at the end of last year, the Dietitians Association of Australia stopped taking funding from big food companies. But this absolute demonisation of one food group is just ill advised and short sighted. Resources: Find out more about Tara Leong, including her fabulous anti-diet merchandise, here. The wonderful Katering Show & its wonderful IQS satire The bizarre IQS Fruit Pyramid: The now-closed “I Quit Sugar” empire, which still sells the books etc. Sarah Wilson’s book “First, we Make the Beast Beautiful” *Here is the article about the misleading food labels on the IQS range - note that the products were not actually removed from shelves, but they were discussed as misleading. The Daily Mail article by Eve Simmons claiming that Sarah Wilson had quit quitting sugar (strongly contested by Sarah Wilson) Paleo Pete & his baby killing bone broth Tara’s amazing article in The Conversation about the dangers of talking about sugar as the new devil  

Joel Feren is The Nutrition Guy, an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and Nutritionist with a background in biomedical sciences. Aside from his work in private practice, Joel doesn’t fit the mould of a traditional dietitian. Instead, he can be found regularly consulting to the food industry, writing nutrition articles for print and online publications, presenting on television for Channel 10’s My Market Kitchen and Studio 10 and engaging in media based work via his role as a Media Spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia. Joel is passionate about dietitians working in the food industry and enjoys the challenge of debunking commonly held nutrition myths in the media. He believes that nutrition is too important to be an afterthought for food brands and businesses, and dietitians can play a fundamental role in improving the nutritional quality of our food.In this chat, Joel opens up about his experiences consulting to food industry and working with the media. He reflects on some career highlights, and shares some of the challenges and feelings of self doubt that he has overcome along the way to find success.As for me? I've rebranded! The Naked Truth is no more. Instead, I'm now working under my own name. Check out the links below for everything that your heart desires! My website www.rachelhawkins.com.au Follow me on Instagram @rachelhawkinsdietitian Subscribe to my newsletter Show notes Other cool guests Oh, and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on new episodes!

Community Connect host, Ola, speaks with Dietitians Association of Australia CEO, Robert Hunt, about the need for a national nutrition strategy that addresses Australia's growing malnutrition and obesity problem.

Nicole Dynan is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Founder of The Good Nutrition Co., a Sydney based nutrition and dietetics practice specialising in gut health, corporate nutrition services and private practice. Having spent 10 years working in chronic disease management within the pharmaceutical industry and experiencing first hand the challenges associated with maintaining her own health within a stressful corporate environment, Nicole made the bold decision to go back to university to study nutrition and begin her journey toward helping people change their lives for the better.In 2012, Nicole started The Good Nutrition Co. to share her knowledge of the power of food and since then has helped thousands of people through three private practice locations and corporate and workplace nutrition and wellness programs. Nicole has achieved some seriously amazing things in her relatively short career including pioneering the first Employee Assistance Program (EAP) phone-based nutrition service in Australia, holding the office of Chairperson for the NSW Branch of the Dietitians Association of Australia and working as Media Spokesperson Dietitian for the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Online and Dietitian’s Association of Australia. She is also one of few dietitians in Australia with qualifications in both dietetics and psychology! In addition to her work in private practice and corporate nutrition, Nicole also appears regularly in the media as The Gut Health Dietitian where she communicates important nutrition messages to audiences in a positive and energetic manner.In this chat, Nicole shares the evolution of her business providing listeners with insight into her work in the private practice and corporate nutrition space. We discuss how her past education and work experience has helped equip her with the skills to run her business and highlight the importance of establishing effective networks through the story of how she began working in the media. Nicole also shares the details of her most recent business endeavor, the launch of her online program The Good Mood Diet.As for me? I've rebranded! The Naked Truth is no more. Instead, I'm now working under my own name. Check out the links below for everything that your heart desires! My website www.rachelhawkins.com.au Follow me on Instagram @rachelhawkinsdietitian Subscribe to my newsletter Show notes Other cool guests Oh, and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on new episodes!

Today I had the pleasure of talking to celebrity chef, filmmaker, and all around great guy, Pete Evans. He co-hosts the #1 show in Australia, My Kitchen Rules which is in its 10th season and is shown in 160 countries. He’s written a ton of books and cookbooks, he’s created the show The Paleo Way, and has a great podcast called Recipes For Life. You may know him from the documentary The Magic Pill, which everyone listening has probably already seen on Netflix.   He’s an amazing, positive force in Australia and the world, and it may not be apparent from our brief talk. We only had an hour so I’m going to have him on again because there’s so much more to get into. I’ll get a better recording situation next time. You’ll notice the quality wasn’t so great due to the recording service we were forced to use. A lot to enjoy in this episode though - he brings up some really creepy stuff about the dietitians association of Australia colluding to discredit and silence himself and a prominent doctor who advocate for people to lower sugar in their diet. Absurd, but true.   These are the last few days you can pre-order the Food Lies film on Indiegogo. We really need your help to get this finished. We’re not taking any outside funding and have so far used much of our own time, money, and resources. It’s really coming out fantastic, and I can’t wait to share it with the world. Pre-ordering is the only way to have your own copy and share it with family and friends and you’ll get it a couple months early. It’s also the best way to show your support for this podcast and getting this information out there. I really appreciate all the support so far and can’t thank this awesome community enough. Click through the link in the show notes on your podcast app, at peak-human.com, at FoodLies.org, or search for it on Indiegogo.com Thanks and please enjoy my talk with Pete Evans.   http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Show Notes Find out more about Pete Evans https://peteevans.com His TV show My Kitchen Rules https://mkr.7plus.com.au His series The Paleo Way https://peteevans.com/initiatives/the-paleo-way/ He self funded The Magic Pill and The Paleo Way and executive produced it Got a distributor and it went nowhere… He realized he had a lot of great content and a documentary was a better format for this valuable information His director Rob Tate came in huge Hope For Health - benefitting the Australian Aboriginals https://www.hopeforhealth.com.au Why Warriors Lay Down and Die http://www.whywarriors.com.au/services/why-warriors-lie-down-and-die/ He brings up Weston A. Price - has he been mentioned every episode? The power of an ancestral diet is undeniable - changes unfolded in real time on film as people got off their diabetes medication and got healthier The trial of Professor Tim Noakes (listen to Prof. Noakes in episode 3) was going on at the same time so they decided to film that as well Dr. Gary Fettke has also been silenced by the dieticians in Australia. He’s an orthopedic surgeon who cuts off limbs due to diabetes yet he was silenced for telling patients to avoid sugar Had great stories from Nina Teicholz, Joel Salatin, and Lierre Keith (all friends of Food Lies film/this podcast) Original cut of Magic Pill was more controversial and inflammatory but Pete wasn’t comfortable with that The president of the Australian Medical Association called it a dangerous film and tried to get it taken off of Netflix. He’s now been replaced… He’s working with Dr. gary Fettke to get the dietary guidelines changed in Australia Dr. Gary Fettke got ahold of some internal files showing Dietitians Association colluding with multinational food organizations to have himself, Pete, and other members of the paleo community silenced or discredited The more films and information about ancestral eating, the better Carnivore movement - Shawn Baker and Mikhaila Peterson - it’s good to fight against the vegan propaganda and prove meat isn’t harmful, but in fact beneficial Pete put up a $1 million bet if those dietitians can prove that the grass fed, grass finished steak and vegetables he served his family for dinner can be proven to be harmful As a chef, why would you use the blandest foods in your cooking? The pasta, the bread, the plain starches that add no nutritional value or flavor. Instead you can use the most nutrient dense and delicious foods possible - all the low carb foods Nora Gedgaudas and her life changing book for Pete, Primal Body Primal Mind https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9571633-primal-body-primal-mind They went on a speaking tour together over the course of 2 years Food should be something you can eat straight from nature, full of nutrients and flavor. That is not wheat and grains The problem is we are taking bland foods devoid of nutrients (refined carbs) and adding fake flavors to them which is tricking us into overeating and not getting adequate nutrition The Dorito Effect https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609354-the-dorito-effect From a restaurant’s point of view, the best thing for someone to order is the pasta because there’s such a high profit margin Cooking your own grass fed meat, wild caught seafood, and organic vegetables is very affordable and can be cheaper if you make a little effort Don’t wait until your health fails to start eating correctly What if there was a generation of young people who grew up thriving their entire lives on a good diet? How can we implement a change even in the school system where kids are taught what to eat and how to cook? Pete Evans says the dietary guidelines need to be changed After a birthday party the kids leave with a a bag of candy - what a bizarre tradition Pete tells a very good story about his daughters when they were younger We wrap things up with some positive messages and a plan to continue the conversation when there’s more time at a later date   Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/

Welcome to this week’s episode! Today we talk to:   ANDREW HO-PENG Andrew Ho-Peng is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with the Dietitians Association of Australian (DAA) and an Accredited Sports Dietitian with Sports Dietitians Australia (SDA).  He consults in private practice and has worked for the Sons of the West men’s health program, in academia, as a consultant Sports Dietitian and across a number of sporting clubs.   Andrew has developed an interest in DEXA technology to analyse body composition; this has proven to be a powerful tool to enhance his patients' nutritional outcomes.  He is the co-director of DEXA Melbourne with a team of like-minded Dietitians specialising in the use of DEXA technology. Andrew is committed to using accurate, precise and current scientific validated methods so that his clients can get the best out of DEXA technology in combination with his Dietetic expertise.   This show you’ll learn: Difference between a nutritionist and dietician What is DEXA and how does it help with sports performance Supplements – Are they required? Resources – Free & paid to help with sports performance   Links & Resources mentioned in this episode: sportsdietician.com.au Australia Institute Sport – ais.gov.au Dexa Melbourne – dexamelbourne.com.au   Recommend a guest: Is there someone you would love to hear from? Is their story inspiring to you? If so please let us know who so we can try and get them onboard! Register here.   Feedback welcome! I would love to hear if we are winning or crashing big time! Send your feedback to  win@motiv8training.com.au   Reviews If you are loving our winning strategy, I would appreciate if you could leave a great review so we can continue on a journey.. Click here to rate and review us. I read each and every review on the show.

Tara MacGregor, Counsellor, Psychotherapist and APD, on the psychotherapeutic model for behaviour change, client centred practice misconceptions, context in practice, motivational interviewing, getting out of ‘fix it’ mode and the importance of professional supervision. Please join me today as I speak with the inspiring and very experienced Tara MacGregor; a qualified Counsellor, Psychotherapist and APD. After many years in clinical dietetics, Tara currently manages a successful private practice located in Sydneyss North Shore. Tara assists adults suffering with chronic yo-yo dieting, disordered eating and eating disorders by combining skilful client centred counselling with nutrition knowledge using the HAES/non-diet approach. Through her training organisation Practice Pavestones, Tara also provides training for health professionals focussing principally on motivational interviewing. Tara also offers clinical supervision and mentoring for dietitians and mental health professionals. Here Tara shares:  How she became interested in the overlapping/space between dietetics and counselling/psychotherapy and what her current space encompasses.  Taking off the white coat; the growth of the psychotherapeutic model and limitations of client ‘education’ in behaviour change.  Client Centred Practice misconception; how it is not doing what your client wants, the ethics and how you can navigate this space!  The importance of ‘context’ in practice and allowing your client to have their reality.  Motivational Interviewing; a conversational, guiding style perfect for HAES/non- diet approach  “Laying the burden down of being the fixer and tapping into our foundational qualities that were already there”  “There is an alternative to traditional dietary therapy” and how supervision can complement the transition by bringing out your strengths. Supervision – the key questions answered: o The difference between professional supervision and mentoring o How would a dietitian know if they needed supervision? o What ‘should’ supervision feel (afterwards)? o Should a supervisor be another dietitian? o How you can find a supervisor?  Current work and involvement with the DAA; Dietitians Association of Australia Connect with Tara; Website: http://taramacgregor.com.au/

Australian Dietitian Feng-Yuan Liu (known as yoo-AHN to her friends) opens a keto coaching clinic against the wishes of the Dietitians Association of Australia. Hilarity ensues.

Wie aussagekräftig sind wiassenschaftliche Studien wirklich? Welche Erkenntnisse können wir aus der großen Zahl der Studien ziehen? „Ich möchte mich auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit mit allem beschäftigen.“ – Niko Rittenau Gast dieser Folge: Niko Rittenau„Niko Rittenau ist studierter Ernährungsberater mit dem Fokus auf pflanzliche Ernährung aus Berlin. Er kombiniert seine Fähigkeiten als ausgebildeter Koch mit dem Ernährungswissen seiner akademischen Laufbahn …“ nikorittenau.com (https://nikorittenau.com/) „Wenn man an ernsthaften Informationen interessiert ist, dann sind sehr populäre Medien eher nicht das Mittel der Wahl.“ – Niko Rittenau Themen über die wir sprechen Inwiefern kann eine ”normale“ wissenschaftliche Studien nutzen? Wie würde ein ideales wissenschaftliches Studiendesign aussehen? Was ist der Goldstandard? Gütekriterien von wissenschaftlichem Arbeiten den Umgang mit Interpretationen von wissenschaftlichen Studien Der Trend aller epidemiologische Studien Umgang mit Pseudowissenschaft „Wenn Menschen glauben: ’Hey cool, ich lass einfach die tierischen Produkte weg und dann bin ich vegan und gesund’ So funktioniert es nicht.“ – Niko Rittenau Erwähnungen und RessourcenHinweis: Einige der folgenden Links sind Affiliate Links (u.a. von Amazon). Wenn du dich für einen Kauf entscheidest, verdiene ich eine kleine Provision – ohne zusätzliche Kosten oder Nachteile für dich. Danke im Voraus, wenn du dich dafür entscheidest den Link zu benutzen. Pubmed (Datenbank für medizinische Artikel)  pubmed.gov (http://pubmed.gov/) Buch: H ow Not to Die (https://simonmcschubert.de/go/how-not-to-die-von-michael-greger/)  von Michael Greger Buch:  China Study: Pflanzenbasierte Ernährung und ihre wissenschaftliche Begründung (https://simonmcschubert.de/go/china-study-von-t-colin-campbell/)  von T. Colin Campbell Adventist Health Study (http://publichealth.llu.edu/adventist-health-studies) World Health Organization (WHO) (http://www.who.int/en/) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (http://www.fao.org/home/en/) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung (DGE) (https://www.dge.de/) Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (http://www.eatright.org/) Organisation:  Dietitians Association of Australia (https://daa.asn.au/) Buch:  Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition (https://simonmcschubert.de/go/whole-rethinking-the-science-of-nutrition-von-t-colin-campbell/)  von T. Colin Campbell Blue Zones:  Amazon (https://simonmcschubert.de/go/the-blue-zones-solution-eating-and-living-like-the-worlds-healthiest-people-von-dan-buettner/) Epic Oxford Study (http://www.epic-oxford.org/) »Bei ›Ernährung‹ wir zwei große Herausforderungen. Nummer 1: Wir können keine 100.000 Menschen für 20 Jahre im Labor einsperren. Nummer 2…« – Niko Rittenau „Was mich traurig stimmt, sind die vielen Leute, die frustriert sind von — augenscheinlichen — Widersprüchen, sodass Sie sagen ‘man kann ja eh jede Studie fälschen und keiner weiß es genau und darum mache ich jetzt irgendetwas’.“ – Niko Rittenau

Reid recently completed a PhD, focusing on weight cutting techniques and body composition of combat sport athletes. This work was carried out in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Sport, where research is combined with helping elite level Olympic athletes. Reid has a master’s degree in dietetics and holds Accredited Sports Dietitian and Accredited Practising Dietitian status with Sports Dietitians Australia and the Dietitians Association of Australia respectively.  He won first prize in the “Young investigator award” at the 2016 European College of Sports Science annual congress in Vienna, for his presentation ‘Rapid weight loss in Olympic combat sports’. On the sporting side, Reid started training BJJ in 2006 and received his black belt in 2015 from Prof. Chris Derksen of the Peter De Been lineage. He is an active competitor having fought in hundreds of BJJ competition matches and winning gold medals at every belt level. His most notable and recent achievements include 2016 UAEJJ World Pro Trials Black Belt Heavyweight champion (Sydney, Australia), 2015 Asian Open Brown Belt heavy weight silver medallist (Tokyo, Japan), 2015 Pan Pacific Brown Belt open weight champion (Melbourne, Australia). In This Episode We Discuss: Why cut weight? Methods used to cut weight The mechanisms by which water loading can potentially be useful in weight cutting Low residue diets and acute weight loss Deciding how much to cut for each sport

The Mindful Dietitian with Deb Blakley, APD Spotlight on another Aussie doing amazing work! Deb is Brisbane-based Family Dietitian, Nutritionist and mum who is passionate about supporting grown-ups (parents, carers & early childhood educators) to positively & joyfully connect or reconnect with food & eating and share this with the children in their care. In our conversation from her comfy couch with cups of tea in hand, we talk about: Why Deb calls herself a "Family Dietitian" Deb's personal insight into how and why she's ended up being so passionate about supporting parents and families The core principles of Feeding Dynamics How we can support parents who are struggling with their food and body issues without them feeling blamed or shamed. Deb's passion for helping all kids feel good in their bodies Why she is convinced that bringing a weight-neutral approach to our work is absolutely vital And much more!   About Deb Blakley:   Deb is an Accredited Practising Dietitian & Accredited Nutritionist, recognised by the Dietitians Association of Australia. She is particularly passionate about supporting grown-ups (parents, carers & early childhood educators) to positively & joyfully connect or reconnect with food & eating and share this with the children in their care. Deb believes that ALL bodies are amazing, and she applies a weight-neutral, non-diet approach in supporting kids to grow into the bodies that are right for them. Her approach supports parents, carers, families & educators to make decisions about nutrition and health from a place of care & consideration rather than control. Deb says: I believe in the right of every person to EAT HAPPY! I believe that every child & every grown-up has the right to feel good about the body they live in, ALWAYS. Without question or condition. I believe that every child is capable of growing up to be a competent and confident eater no matter what the nutrition challenge is. I believe that every grown-up is capable of healing their relationship with food too! I delight in helping families put the joy back into eating together. Find Deb here: Kids Dig Food Website Kids Dig Food on Facebook

To mark Nutrition and Hydration Week 2017, we're taking a look at how to make sure you eat and drink well after a stroke. Our guest is Alana Stewart from the Stroke Foundation. Alana is a speech pathologist with a Masters in Human Nutrition, who currently runs the StrokeConnect Follow-up service in Victoria. Thanks also go to Jacqui Heward, Accredited Practising Dietitian and member of the Dietitians Association of Australia, who provided some of the content. This podcast was brought to you by Nestlé Health Science.

Songbirds in the city, such as the Great Tit (Parus major), are learning to sing their mating calls at a higher pitch to cut through the urban clamour. But while this may help them be heard, the different tune may hamper their mating success.Sugar is today's popular dietary villain, but does it make sense to demonise a single nutrient? Dr Alan Barclay from the Dietitians Association of Australia explains why we shouldn't just follow the latest fads.Just because a scientific study gets a result, that doesn't mean it's true. The Reproducibility Project tried to replicate 100 psychology papers, and only 36% got a significant result (consistent with a recent high-profile retraction of a paper about canvassing support for same-sex marriage). As John Ioannidis pointed out in 2005, most published research findings are false, and the best way to improve this is to try to remove bias and do larger studies with more statistical significance.

Sally is the founder and head dietitian of Marchini Nutrition. Marchini Nutrition is a dietitian service set up to help all those with or at risk of diabetes and coeliac disease. Sally qualified as a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Newcastle and is an active member of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA), the Australian Diabetes ... Read More The post 7: Why you should see a dietitian today with Sally Marchini appeared first on Must Amplify.