#250 Health Statistics Everyone Should Know
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m talking about statistics to do with food and health that everyone should know.
How much it costs us every year, where it sits on the list of the biggest contributors to ill health and death globally, what the impact of good food actually is and how bad people are currently eating according to current guidelines.
I don’t think many people appreciate these numbers. I get a lot of glossed looks whenever I talk about the impact of poor food on health outcomes, particularly with certain medical professionals. It’s often seen as an inevitability and the nonchalant nature in which we address the foundations of ill health is seen within these statistics. We all need to do better.
There is huge potential for improved health if we simply encourage and empower people to eat well everyday and that will have a knock on effect on productivity, wealth, happiness, relationships and so on. I don’t present this idea as a panacea, but just a huge tool in our aspiration for improving wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen Podcast, |
| 0:10.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what |
| 0:36.6 | allows you to lead your best life. Today I'm going to be talking about statistics to do with food and health I believe. |
| 0:51.2 | Everyone should really know it should be plastered across billboards and certainly in GP |
| 0:56.3 | surgeries we should all understand how much it costs us every year that's bad food where it sits on the list of contributors to |
| 1:05.8 | ill health and death globally and conversely what the impact of good food |
| 1:10.9 | actually is and how bad people are currently eating according to the current guidelines. |
| 1:16.4 | Now I don't think enough people appreciate these numbers and I personally get a lot of gloss looks whenever I talk about the impact of poor food or health outcomes |
| 1:27.0 | and particularly with certain medical professionals it can almost be seen as an inevitability and I believe the non-chalant |
| 1:37.0 | nature in which we address the foundations of ill health is seen within these |
| 1:41.6 | statistics and we all need to do better. |
| 1:44.0 | There is huge potential for improved health if we just simply do the very basics which is |
| 1:51.0 | encourage and empower people to eat well every day. |
| 1:55.0 | That will have an incredible impact on productivity, wealth, happiness, relationships, |
| 2:01.0 | and so on. And I don't present this idea as a panacea, |
| 2:05.5 | but just as a huge tool in our toolbox |
| 2:10.6 | and a massive aspiration for improving health and well being and I think if we can all be many |
| 2:15.3 | voices in this chorus toward empowering people to be to do better for to eat well I feel that we can have a much much bigger impact across our |
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