Hello and a warm welcome back to my Friday 5 podcast a quick flick through some of the topical and newsworthy subjects of notes that have been in the headlines and perhaps front of mind this week in the world of well-being. So this week I'm looking

at the link or non-link between eating eggs and getting diabetes and is a Scotch egg a substantial meal. I'll be exploring

nutritional data manipulation looking at why we sleep and sharing some of your

feedback. So to kick off you may have seen studies in the mainstream media earlier

this week alerting us to a study that claims to show eating eggs raises the risk of type

two diabetes.

So how can this be when eggs are packed with healthy nutrients

and are of course sugar free?

What is the truth behind the headlines

and could there be a smidgen of spin surrounding these click-bait-worthy headlines?

Well, to find out more, I invited the investigative nutrition author, Obesity researcher and all-round good egg.

Dr. Zoe Harkham onto the show here to separate the facts from the fiction.

So Zoe, it's such a pleasure to have you here on my podcast. I've been stalking you for a number of years now, I think, on Twitter. I'm a great admirer of your work, so thank you for finding the time.

Thank you so much. That's so kind. This is completely mutual as well so I'm

thrilled to be on with you. Thank you. Well let's do a little bit of a chat about who you are first and

what you're doing and why you've come to be such a voice in this whole space of nutritional well-being.

Okay, do I give you the really speedy history actually. First interest in anything was type 1 diabetic brother, which kind of

wakes you up to carbohydrates and insulin very rapidly. I'm then a Cambridge economics graduate

with math options, so I'm a bit of a numbers nerd and I'm a bit of a problem solver.

I had what my mother would call a fairly normal career ended up as HR director at the most senior position management team board level for some blue chip

organizations including having worked in fake food and farmer so nothing like

knowing it from within yeah the inside story excellent yeah not

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