Women, Wellness & Pseudoscience

Food For Thought

Rhiannon Lambert

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The wellness industry is now worth over a staggering £2.8 trillion worldwide. Unhinged and negative beliefs around women’s bodies have a long history in society, every day we are bombarded by new wellness claims, from ‘restoring the balance of our hormones’, to the ‘self-healing’ properties of celery juice. It has never been so difficult to distinguish fact from fad in this field, leaving many of us in the unknown and prompting unnecessary purchases. Joining me to help uncover the truth is personal trainer, best selling author and Women’s Health magazine columnist Alice Liveing. For more information, visit Rhitrition.com and Instagram.com/Rhitrition.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I just wanted to explain and explore a new discovery that we have here at Food for Thought and that is Flora plant
0:07.6	So it's a plant based alternative to butter. Now this episode has been sponsored by Flora plant
0:13.5	And I've got some incredible stats here which blew my mind. Now listen to this switching one kilogram of dairy butter to
0:20.1	Flora plant could save you just wait at least 12.2 kilograms of carbon dioxide and that's the equivalent of charging a smartphone overnight
0:28.3	1,657 times and of course 75% less climate impact than dairy butter by using something like Flora plant and I know a lot of you listening are
0:39.0	Looking for options in your diet or alternatives and it's no ordinary plant based bread
0:43.8	In fact, it tastes it cooks and it bakes importantly of course we love our cooking on this podcast
0:48.6	It bakes and spreads just like dairy butter. So
0:53.0	Definitely go and check this one out. It's called Flora plant
0:56.2	Life cycle assessment tool developed by Quentus comparing Flora plant and dairy butter in UK
1:03.9	2023 see flora.com forward slash sustainability for more information
1:10.5	This podcast has been sponsored by Zoe the personalized nutrition program that helps you
1:16.2	Understand how to eat for your long term health now long-time listeners of the podcast may remember Zoe from previous episodes
1:23.1	So I've recorded with Zoe co-founder professor Tim Specter
1:26.4	He's an expert on the gut microbiome and professor specter and his team of scientists discovered that identical twins
1:33.5	Can have completely different responses to the same food and this is something we talk about with our clients all the time in the clinic
1:40.1	And that means that both twins could eat a sugary muffin and you know
1:44.0	They would have a complete different response which is fascinating and one could feel great and the other could feel that slump and
1:49.8	The increased hunger due to their different blood sugar responses. So here we go
1:54.8	Zoe's research found that the change in blood sugar and blood fat levels
1:59.0	Can vary 10 fold from person to person then on top of that identical twins only share a quarter of their gut bugs
2:06.2	Despite being genetically identical. So basically we're all different
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