We are woefully under-eating fiber and it takes a lot of boxes.

It's really helpful for weight loss.

It helps reduce hunger pangs.

It tends to be low in calories but high in nutrition.

And it's usually high in volume.

So it actually physically helps to fill it up.

And so what happens is when you're eating lots of fibre-rich foods, they fill your

stomach up. That triggers these kind of stretch receptors in the stomach, which then signal to the

brain to turn off your appetite. It's very similar to GLP1. Now, do you want to lose weight healthfully?

Well, nutritionist Emma Bardwell says, don't eat less.

Eat more.

More colour, more variety, more protein and more fibre.

This is the Lizelle Wellbeing Show, the podcast, helping us all have a better second half.

I'm Lizelle, and I am on such a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing

in our health and our well-being today. And all this month, we are looking at ways to age

with real health, vitality and a boldness of spirit. You know, one of the things we know will

help us age free from debilitating disease is to maintain a healthy weight.

But I tell you what will zap any vitality and zest for life that you have, and that's a boring

diet. And we don't want all our headspace to be taken up thinking about food. So is there a way

to healthfully drop some fat that won't tax our brain. Well, Emma Bardwell is a

registered nutritionist and health writer and she says absolutely there is. She does a lot of work

specifically with menopausal women and I love this is deeply anti-fad diet and doesn't have time

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