Fat & Furious

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Dr Anna Symonds Jun 27, 2020

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“Our brains are constantly narrating to us all the time but it’s our thoughts that give us our feelings…What is it about? It is about capturing those thoughts and re-framing them to a way that makes sense for you, because it’s our thoughts that give us our feeling. For every feeling we have there is a thought first.” – Dr Anna Symonds 2020 This weeks guest is a clinical psychologist Dr Anna Symonds. Join Steve and Anna as they discuss the thought process or lack of thought behind what we put into our mouths. Twitter @dr_symonds Instagram @drannasymonds YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96Oz6Fk-_0f-YKQWzFqoNQ Websites https://www.dr-annasymonds.co.uk/ https://www.elysianpsychology.co.uk/ Dr Anna Symonds is a Clinical Psychology provider to young people and adults. She is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and Chartered with the British Psychological Society. She qualified at the University of Leicester with a Doctorate in Cli

Jerome Burne Jun 20, 2020

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“If you want proper advice on if you should take vitamins or whether you should have a particular diet you should be on the person your told to go to is a doctor which is a bit like asking your carpenter how you might re-wire your house I mean it’s the wrong profession a profession that is not trained for it.” – Jerome Burne 2020 This week’s guest on the Fat & Furious Podcast is Jerome Burne a health and medicine journalist and Author with over 20 years in his field. Join Steve and Jerome as they discuss what is wrong with the dietary guidelines in the UK and how better education in schools and medical school can help change the health of our nation. Jerome has been a health journalist for twenty years and written for most of the national newspapers and a variety of magazines. Before that he edited a massive tome called Chronicle of the World and before that he was co-editor of Time Out in the mid-1980’s. In recent years Jerome has written mainly for the Daily Mail. He has also c

Dr Peter Brukner Jun 13, 2020

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‘The only hope for the future of medicine is prevention and we know that the majority of these chronic diseases that take up all the doctors time are preventable!’ – Dr Peter Brukner 2019 This week Steve is joined by Dr Peter Brukner Aussie sports medicine physician, author and real food advocate. Recently doctor to the Aussie cricket team and Liverpool FC. Convenor of SugarByHalf campaign. Websites https://www.fatlotofgood.com.au/ https://www.peterbrukner.com/ Books https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Peter-Brukner/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3APeter+Brukner Twitter @PeterBrukner Peter is a medical doctor and specialist sports and exercise medicine physician. Peter has had two passions during this medical career. The first was sports medicine. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He was the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, has served two terms as president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, is the c

Patrick Holford Jun 06, 2020

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'Before cars and fridges our food was fresh and organic and we ate a lot more of it, because we had to chop the wood, fetch the water and we moved around. That organic whole food provides a level of vitamins and minerals that if we wanted to achieve the same level of nutrition today we would have to supplement!' - Patrick Holford 2019 In this fascinating episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett & leading nutrition expert, Patrick Holford discuss the role suboptimum nutrition plays in our overall health. From the western diet, lifestyle factors and man made medicines, how much is contributing to both your physical and mental health? Website - PatrickHolford.com Twitter/Facebook/ - @patrickholford Patrick is a leading spokesman on nutrition in the media, specialising in the field of mental health. He is the author of 40 books, translated into over 30 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide, including The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Low-GL Diet Bible, Opt

Dr Aseem Malhotra May 30, 2020

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'A patient come to me who had been on blood pressure pills for 15 years and went on my diet plan, started walking again and nothing else. Within three months stopped taking 3 of the 4 pills blood pressure medications he'd been on of 15 years, and had never felt better.' - Aseem Malhotra 2019 In this episode your host Steve Bennett and his guest Dr Aseem Malhotra expose whether to much exercise can cause a heart attack. Aseem is both a practicing Cardiologist and a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar and has led work highlighting the harm caused by excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom, particularly its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity. Aseem has written for several publications including the BMJ, The Guardian and Observer, BBC online, Huffington Post, The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post. In 2018 he was ranked by Onalytica as the number 1 doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking

Dr James DiNicolantonio May 23, 2020

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'It's not your fault that you thought salt was bad, we've been pre-disposed to believe that salt is this toxic poison when really its this essential mineral.' - Dr James DiNicolatonio 2019 Dr. James DiNicolantonio is a cardiovascular research scientist and doctor of pharmacy at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, and author of The Salt Fix and Superfuel. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and expert on health and nutrition, he has contributed extensively to health policy and has even testified in front of the Canadian Senate regarding the harms of added sugars. Dr. DiNicolantonio serves as the Associate Editor of Nutrition and British Medical Journal’s (BMJ) Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society. He is the author or coauthor of approximately 200 publications in the medical literature. He is also on the editorial advisory boards of several medical journals. He has shared his

Patrick Holden May 16, 2020

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‘We also need to encourage governments to do more to make sustainable farming the more profitable option for farmers and the more affordable option for consumers.’ – Patrick Holden 2019 For the full story get your copy of Fat and Furious on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TBdTGD Use the discount code: 'FFPodcast' at checkout for £5 off. In this episode, your host Steve Bennett and Sustainable food activist, Patrick Holden discuss how the UK needs to move to a more sustainable and organic way of farming. Twitter – @SusFoodTrust / @SoilAssociation Website - https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ Patrick Holden is the founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, working internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd,

Dr Malcolm Kendrick May 09, 2020

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‘Nitric Oxid is the single biggest anti-coagulant agent know to nature, it stops blood clotting… Anything that boosts Nitric Oxid is good for cardiovascular health’ – Malcolm Kendrick 2019 For the full story get your copy of Fat and Furious on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TBdTGD Use the discount code: 'FFPodcast' at checkout for £5 off In this episode, your host Steve Bennett and heart expert, Dr Malcolm Kendrick discuss the truth behind what causes heart disease and the negative impact of statins on the body. Twitter – @malcolmken Website - drmalcolmkendrick.org Dr Malcolm is a practising GP living in Macclesfield. Malcolm is a three-time best-selling author. Two of his books, The Cholesterol Con and A Statin Nation, are a must-read for anyone thinking about taking statins. Malcolm’s third book, Doctoring Data is so insightful that when you next see a questionable newspaper headline about health, you should download an electronic version, and it will help you better unders

Dr Jen Unwin May 03, 2020

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‘The goal for everyone is to feel, peace and happiness, however they might phrase it. So we help patients to notice how much of their time and feelings is given to their addiction, say sugar for example. I’ll ask - How much, out of 100% is that addiction giving you that feeling of peace and happiness? They aren’t going to say very much are they’ – Dr.Jen Unwin 2019 on pleasure vs happiness Website: https://realfoodrocks.co.uk/ https://phcuk.org/board/ https://www.lowcarbprogram.com/ Twitter - @jen_unwin YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oChtW_g--E In this Episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by Dr. Jen Unwin. Steve first met Jen with her husband Dr. David Unwin after he had written the preface to Steve’s book The Primal Cure. Steve was fascinated by Jens work in psychology and the role it plays in improving our health. Jen with her husband David has undertaken a body of work that looks to hit the issue of obesity and diabetes head on by

Dr Jason Fung Apr 26, 2020

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‘The biggest sort of benefit to fasting is weight loss and its effect on Type 2 diabetes. Both are related conditions. Essentially when you do not eat your forcing the body to use up some of its fat stores of food energy or Calories. It shows we do not need to be eating all the times. Your fasting even when you are sleeping, you’re not eating in your sleep so therefore you have to rely on your bodies fat stores’ – Jason Fung 2019 Website – https://thefastingmethod.com/ Twitter - @drjasonfung Instagram - @fastingmethod YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/thefastingmethod Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Dr-Jason-Fung/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADr+Jason+Fung In this Episode of Fat & Furious, your host Steve Bennett is joined by Jason Fung a Canadian Nephrologist, a medical doctor who specialises in kidney care and treating diseases of the kidney. He is a world leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carbs, especially for treating people with those who suffer with type

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