Hey everyone and welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel Wallace, founder and author of the Food Medic.

Now, I hope you enjoyed last week's episode on Sustainable Seafood because today we're following on from that theme of sustainability,

but this time looking at the wider diet and exploring what a

sustainable diet actually looks like. So I've enlisted the help of Louise Simmington, who is a registered

dietitian specialising in sustainable food. Louise has worked in both NHS and private practice

and for charities such as the National Trust,

sustain and the Sustainable Restaurant Association. On top of her dietetic work, she also runs

food growing and conservation projects at a community allotment. Now, before we jump into the

episode, as always, make sure to keep listening until the end of the

episode so I can share this week's challenge, which actually isn't anything to do with food,

but it is going to help the environment, so make sure to keep listening, and give you a tease

to next week's guest, which I think is going to be a little bit of a plot twist for you.

Louise, welcome to the Food Medic Show. It's really great to have you on.

Thank you for having me.

So first of all, I would love if you could share with myself and the listeners a little bit

about your career journey so far and what inspired you to focus on sustainability in particular.

Yeah. Well, I've always been interested in food

and I always knew I wanted to go into the career of being a dietitian.

But what really captured my attention was the mad cow disease epidemic during the 90s.

Because this led me to think, what is happening?

Why are people consuming these animals and getting CJD? And why cow's getting

mad cow disease anyway? Why are they being fed spinal cords? Surely they should be being fed

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