Your Brain on Food / Joe De Sena & Dr Uma Naidoo
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Nutritional Psychiatry. Dr. Uma Naidoo, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef, and trained Nutrition Specialist, offers simple tips to help you stay on track. She's the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and wrote the best seller "This Is Your Brain on Food." She joins Joe De Sena, founder & CEO of Spartan, on today's episode of the Spartan Up podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're eating at restaurants or you're ordering out all the time, studies have shown you consume more calories and you are more likely to consume unhealthy options. |
| 0:08.8 | Whereas if you're preparing something at home, you know what's going into it. |
| 0:11.6 | This research has shown that you eat less and you |
| 0:14.8 | know you have a little bit more control of your food. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:25.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:30.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on a Spartan |
| 0:35.2 | up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:38.7 | Dr Uma Naidu, nutritional psychologist and author of This is Your Brain brain on food joins Joe to talk about common food traps and solutions. |
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| 1:10.0 | and go powder sticks. |
| 1:12.0 | Joe the Center here, founder and CEO of Spartan and the Spartan up podcast where we attempt to rip, |
| 1:19.3 | I don't know, a hundred million people off the couch, but a lot of people are stuck on the couch eating |
| 1:24.2 | chips however we got Dr Uma here and she's going to tell us why we are addicted to |
| 1:31.5 | chips and the brew that and the food brain connection. |
| 1:34.8 | That's your expertise? |
| 1:36.7 | The gut brain connection and yes, the food food connection |
| 1:39.8 | is what I do in nutritional psychiatry, Joe. |
| 1:42.2 | You know, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood |
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