#17 Eating For Public Health - with Dr Hazel Wallace
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show I talk to a good friend and bestselling author, Dr Hazel Wallace, aka The Food Medic about eating for public health.
Dr Hazel is also host of The Food Medic podcast and is currently doing a masters in Clinical Nutrition and Public Health at UCL.
I talk to Hazel about how we can eat to improve public health in general and improve the current burden on our health care system.
We talk about:
- Corporate responsibility - ensuring that people are offered healthier choices when shopping and eating out - such as low sugar items and whole foods
- Giving the general public reasonable targets when it comes to food and what we should be aiming to include in our diets on a daily basis
- Expectation management - what we see on social media v's reality in clinic and GP surgeries
- Fibre intake - how we can achieve our daily fibre intake guidelines (30g per day) by including more foods such as beans, nuts, legumes and foods like chickpeas in our daily diet.
One of my recipes from The Doctor's Kitchen book which will ensure you're hitting your daily fibre intake is my Spicy Baked Eggs with Tomatoes & Chickpeas.
And don't forget to pre-order a copy of my new book Eat to Beat Illness which is released on 21st March 2019 - I can't wait for you to read it!
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| 0:00.0 | We tell everyone, meet your 10,000 steps a day, get 150 minutes of activity every week. |
| 0:11.4 | Some people aren't like getting half of that, so you have to set people individual targets. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome to the Drs. kitchen podcast where we discuss the intersection of nutrition, |
| 0:25.9 | lifestyle and wellbeing. |
| 0:27.7 | Today I've got a good friend of mine, Dr. Hazel Wallace, who's found her with the food medic, |
| 0:32.6 | she's a medical doctor, a best-selling author and health writer. |
| 0:36.3 | She's also a qualified personal trainer. |
| 0:38.7 | She's currently doing a masters in clinical nutrition and public health at UCL. |
| 0:43.0 | She also started her own blog, The Food Medic, back in 2012. |
| 0:46.8 | So we're talking seven years ago now. |
| 0:49.2 | Whilst she was at medical school, in a bid to bridge the gap between conventional medical |
| 0:52.6 | advice and the latest thoughts and developments in nutrition and other areas of lifestyle medicine as well. |
| 0:58.7 | She's also a host of her own podcast, The Food Medic podcast and really good friend of mine. |
| 1:03.0 | So I cannot wait to get into this discussion about how we can eat to improve public health in general. |
| 1:08.6 | Her masters has allowed her to dive into different topics around public health in general. |
| 1:13.9 | And so I'm fascinated into finding out a bit more about the direction that she's going in |
| 1:18.2 | and what kind of things we can do to improve the burden currently on our health care systems. |
| 1:23.8 | You can follow her at The Food Medic on all social media platforms. |
| 1:27.4 | I'll link to those in the show notes. |
| 1:29.1 | Make sure you check out her books as well with Amazon and all good bookstores. |
| 1:32.7 | Make sure you pre-order a copy of my book, Eat to Be Illness, The Doctor's Kitchen. |
| 1:37.3 | It's my new book where I discuss all elements of nutrition, lifestyle and how they intersect |
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