Dr. Federica Amati: Navigating Food Choices For Fat Loss & Living Longer (E299)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Federica Amati is a nutrition scientist and public health expert, with a passion for helping individuals understand the impact of their food choices. In this episode, she chats with Jake and Damian about her new book Everybody Should Know This, which dives deep into the fundamentals of food and its role in maintaining good health.
Throughout their conversation, Dr. Federica reveals the inspiration behind her book and the powerful message it conveys. She explores the concept of metabolic flexibility and how it can be achieved through simple dietary changes. She also emphasises the importance of whole grains and fruits, discussing how these foods can boost longevity and overall health, while also offering tips to enhance metabolic well-being.
Dr Federica addresses how the food industry often prioritises profit over health, highlighting the importance of being mindful about what we consume. She expands on the critical "first thousand days" of life, explaining how early nutrition shapes long-term health, and warns against the dangers of ultra-processed foods, especially for younger people.
This episode is packed with actionable insights, covering topics from boosting metabolic flexibility to enhancing sleep quality through nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | I think what's key here is as well a lot of it is aimed at living longer living healthier |
| 0:06.5 | but actually it's also about feeling better today we see this in the UK with soaring |
| 0:12.2 | rates of dental decay. |
| 0:14.0 | We're the country that has the highest number of children put under general aesthetic |
| 0:18.0 | to remove rotting teeth under the age of 7. |
| 0:21.0 | Changing your diet at any age, age of |
| 0:25.0 | a seven. Changing your diet at any age improves your health and your longevity. |
| 0:28.0 | That's the voice of nutritionist and medical scientists, |
| 0:30.0 | Dr. Ferreya Matty who joins us on today's show. I'm Jake Humphrey and like so many people |
| 0:35.7 | I'm just trying to get the most I can out of life which I guess is why I'm using the |
| 0:40.1 | years I've spent in broadcasting to pick the brains of some of the most incredible people |
| 0:44.5 | in the world and in today's episode learn about the things that you can do and change fundamentally |
| 0:50.8 | around your diet to get you closer to high performance. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm Damien Hughes. I've spent my life immersed in the world of high performance seeking to understand it. |
| 1:00.0 | I've been lucky enough to work with professional sports teams all over the world including the Scotland Mugby Union as well as the England national football team and leading business people to help them understand how they can create cultures to get the best out of themselves and others. |
| 1:15.6 | So let's tell you a bit about FEDAW, then. |
| 1:17.4 | She's a head nutritionist and head of science communications at Zoe, which is a company focused on personalized nutrition based on scientific |
| 1:24.8 | evidence. |
| 1:25.8 | She's also the author of two best-selling books on nutrition, regularly contributes to newspapers |
| 1:31.1 | such as The Times, The Guardian and the F.T. |
| 1:33.4 | And my real passion when it comes to Fede is that as a doctor, she's not just looking to get famous |
| 1:39.5 | by talking about the latest hacks or the or the latest fads Damien. |
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