63: Simplifying Nutrition + Our Mindset around Food with Tamar Samuels of Culina Health
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Balanced Life podcast! To kick off this new season, we’re focusing on nourishment and our relationship with food. This can be a complex subject for many of us, which is why we’re looking at how to take a well-rounded and less complicated approach to food and nutrition. In this episode, we’re joined by Tamar Samuels from Culina Health, who shares ways to enrich our overall wellness with practical and realistic advice.
Tamar is a dietician, nutritionist, and co-founder of Culina Health who takes a holistic approach to help individuals heal their relationship with food. She discusses what causes inflammation, how to improve your sleep, easy additions to your diet, and so much more. Join Robin in this insightful and enriching conversation with Tamar.
Show Highlights:
- What is inflammation and how does it affect our bodies?
- Foods that cause inflammation + foods that help reduce inflammation
- The difference between Omega-3 and Omega-6
- How what you eat can impact your sleep and ways to improve it
- Adding to your diet instead of restricting
- The difference between a dieting mentality and making healthy changes
- The importance of making nutrition accessible
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pallotti's instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.2 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:22.4 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create |
| 0:28.6 | your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Valplife podcast. After a brief break for the holidays, |
| 0:43.9 | we are back in action for 2022 and I could not be more excited. I have missed connecting with you |
| 0:50.9 | here and we have an amazing lineup of episodes coming at you in |
| 0:56.3 | 2022. Everything from interviews to helpful and encouraging messages to help you live a healthy |
| 1:03.4 | balanced life in the new year. As always, with our signature approach of grace over guilt |
| 1:09.2 | and balance and truly helping you to find your own |
| 1:13.5 | unique version of balance. I am so excited to be back and cannot wait to share all that is in |
| 1:19.0 | store with you. As you've probably seen on Instagram and if you receive our emails, we are |
| 1:24.6 | kicking off the new year with a focus on nourishment. |
| 1:28.8 | We are diving into the world of food. |
| 1:32.4 | And I'll be honest, sometimes I like to shy away from this topic. |
| 1:36.7 | Not because I don't think it's important, but because it can be complicated. |
| 1:41.0 | And you know that, I'm sure. |
| 1:43.2 | This is the time of year when we are bombarded with |
| 1:46.4 | messages about starting new diets or cleanses or quick fixes or fads. It's the time of year when |
| 1:54.5 | many companies and products capitalize on the fact that so many of us are ready to get back |
| 1:59.3 | into a healthy routine or wanting to set new |
| 2:01.3 | goals. And therefore, there are a lot of solutions, quote unquote, to our problems that are |
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