120 - You are what you eat, with the Healthy Eating Doctor

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Healthy Eating Doctor, Dr Harriet Holme, joins Dr Louise Newson on the podcast couch this week to discuss the importance of nutrition for reducing long term risk of disease and improving your future health. Before becoming a registered nutritionist, Harriet worked for ten years as a doctor before her interest grew in the link between what we eat and our health. She is passionate about sharing evidence-based knowledge to help people understand more about their own diets and health, and offers nutritional consultancy as well as lecturing on culinary science and nutrition. Harriet’s four key ingredients for eating in the peri/menopause: Calcium is key, try and get it from your diet as much as possible. Balance your diet with a wide variety of wholegrains (brown bread and brown pasta, for example) fermented food (such as kimchi or kefir), lots of fruit and vegetables, and avoid sweeteners and fizzy drinks. Top up your omega 3 by eating 2 portions of oily fish a week. And last but not least, vitamin D. Take this one as a supplement especially in autumn and winter in the UK. If you’re vegan, also take a B12 supplement, but otherwise it’s always best to get nutrients from your diet rather than relying on supplements. Listen to Harriet on her own podcast, ‘Eating for Health’ or visit her website: healthyeatingdr.com Find Harriet on social media at: Facebook = @healthyeatingdrcom Twitter = @healthyeatingdr Instagram = @healtheatingdr

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
0:15.8	specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health
0:22.5	Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.5	So today with me I have Harriet Home, who is a registered nutritionist and used to work as a doctor. And I've just recently
0:39.2	met her virtually in this weird world that we live in. But it's a real joy to have you today on
0:44.3	my podcast. So thanks for agreeing to come, Harriet. Oh no, thank you so much. It's a real pleasure
0:48.1	to be here. So I just really wanted to confess, actually, that I've thought a lot about what
0:53.1	would I do if I was into
0:54.3	menopause specialist and sort of dedicate my life really. It seems to be thinking about
0:58.5	hormones and the menopause. And I actually would be doing something about nutrition because
1:03.1	it's so important and we'll talk about why. But when I think back about my training, I had
1:10.0	obviously a really good, robust, solid undergraduate
1:13.9	and postgraduate training that I'm very grateful for.
1:16.4	And I learned a lot about various diseases and management of them.
1:19.8	But I had no formal menopause training.
1:21.9	But I also had no formal nutrition training.
1:25.0	And every person, adult, child, men, female that I see that everyone
1:30.5	sees as clinicians has to eat. We don't have a choice about that. But we do have a choice
1:35.3	about what we eat. And we also, I really strongly feel as healthcare professionals, we have a real
1:40.8	power actually to help change what our patient's choices are regarding food.
1:47.7	So I'm really interested to hear because you've got a medical background.
1:52.5	You would have had medical training.
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