049: Dr. Yoni Freedhoff – Embracing Imperfection | Stop Blaming The Food Industry | Staying Ahead Of Food Cravings
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2015
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, we are featuring one of Canada's most outspoken obesity experts, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff. He is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa. Yoni is the author of The Diet Fix and he writes regularly for his award-winning blog, Weighty Matters.
In this episode, we discuss:
- When it comes to corruption in the food marketplace we need to stop blaming the food industry
- Changes in the food industry can't happen fast
- Is the internet helping or hindering positive changes?
- We still have a lot to learn when it comes to nutrition
- Confusing customers with food labels
- Eating healthy distilled down into one simple rule
- BMI isn't a useful tool
- Learn how to calculate your "best weight"
- Chocolate milk has double the calories and 20% more sugar than Coca-Cola
- Managing childhood obesity
- Exercise makes you healthy, not skinny
- There isn't one perfect diet for everyone
- Cheat days are not the answer
- Food is not just calories, it provides the building blocks for our bodies
- Staying ahead of food cravings and hunger
- Yoni's morning routine, including breakfast
- Embracing imperfection
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Ultimate Health Podcast my name is Jesse Chappas and I'm here with |
| 0:14.8 | Marnie Wasserman. Today we are speaking with the assistant professor of |
| 0:20.0 | family of medicine at the University of Ottawa Yoni Friedhoff. He is an |
| 0:25.7 | outspoken obesity expert. He's got a popular YouTube channel. He's written the book |
| 0:31.6 | The Diet Fix Why Diets Failing How to Make Yours Work. |
| 0:36.0 | He's got an awesome health blog. |
| 0:38.0 | This guy's doing a lot of great stuff in the health world. |
| 0:41.0 | Gonna give a shout out to our new show sponsor Sun Warrior. |
| 0:45.7 | And I just want to give you guys some ideas of how to make Sun Warrior part of your daily |
| 0:49.2 | routine and even your travel plans really easily because last weekend Jesse and I did a little vacate to Niagara |
| 0:55.9 | on the lake just in Ontario and because we were in our common elements and having all of our provisions. I made sure to pack some |
| 1:04.1 | sunware in a little container with some scoopers and a little shaker cup with a |
| 1:08.1 | whisk and we were able to shake up some sunwear shakes for breakfast and we had that |
| 1:12.2 | with some fruit and it was |
| 1:13.0 | perfect so it's really great to be able to take that on the go and really easy now a lot |
| 1:18.0 | of health food stores also have the sample packs so they're already ready to go in a |
| 1:21.8 | single serving that you can just rip open or if you have a bag of it already at home you can individually divide it out. |
| 1:27.0 | So it's a great easy thing to take on the go and you get a really nice awesome plant-based protein to satiate you and keep your energy |
| 1:34.3 | levels up for the day. Yeah and the way I incorporate it that is very similar is at |
| 1:39.2 | work what I'll do is just take a scoop mix it with a nut milk in one of these |
| 1:44.0 | shaker bottles with a whisk, and then I will just sip on that in between |
| 1:48.3 | patients. So it just keeps me satiated, it tastes great, and if you want to add a little bit of more sweetness you can |
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