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Food, We Need To Talk

How Exercise Helps with Depression, Anxiety, and the Aging Brain ft. Dr. Jennifer Heisz

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all know the physical benefits of exercise, but today we talk about the brain benefits. How does exercise impact depression and anxiety? How can exercise help keep our brains young? Should our exercise habits change depending on our mental health? Today, we speak to Dr. Jennifer Heisz, Professor of Kinesiology at McMaster University. Check out her book Move the Body, Heal the Mind.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanted to just share with everyone that we have a lot of privilege around here.

0:04.8

I'm not complaining.

0:07.3

We get to talk about what to eat, we get to talk about how that food makes us feel.

0:12.5

We even get to talk about when to eat it.

0:15.0

But while we're talking about all those things and just trying to figure out what to have

0:18.0

for dinner, there are over 37 million Americans that have food insecurity.

0:25.7

This is just awful.

0:26.7

They go to school hungry.

0:28.8

They go to work hungry, they go to sleep hungry.

0:32.1

This fall, I think I've already shared with you, I'm going to be running the New York City

0:35.0

marathon.

0:37.0

And I chose this wonderful charity to support called Hunger-Free America.

0:41.2

It's this remarkable organization that actually connects all those folks who are food and

0:45.7

cure with sources of food.

0:47.8

It might be a food pantry, but it might also be connecting you to the WIC benefits or

0:51.5

SNAP benefits.

0:53.4

Another free America remarkably got New York City to provide free school lunches to everybody.

1:00.3

And they're trying to do that.

1:01.5

So all the kids are getting their free school lunches.

1:04.2

And now they're trying to do that across New York State.

1:06.8

They're really efficient.

1:08.2

The money that you give 88 cents on the dollar goes directly to services.

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