Healthy Eating
Podcast Episodes
#115 Fasting as Medicine with Professor Valter Longo
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#112 There’s a Zoo in My Poo! with Professor Felice Jacka
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#107 Food Intolerance with Dr Anne Swain, Dietitian
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#105 The Doctor’s Kitchen and Culinary Medicine with Dr Rupy Aujla, GP
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#97 Farms, Food and Health with Joel Salatin
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#91 Nutrition, pathophysiology of DMT2, the environment & ending the diet wars
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#90 Low carb diets for diabetes Part I with Dr David Unwin, GP
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#83 Binge eating disorders with Prof Philippa Hay, psychiatrist
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#63 What is lifestyle medicine? with Dr Sam Manger and Dr Edwin Kruys
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#61 The truth about food with Dr David Katz
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#43 Picky and fussy eaters with Jessi Bruns, child and family dietitian
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#31 Acne management, history of anaesthesia & optimising lifestyle recommendations through detailed history
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#30 Probiotics with Dr Johan van den Bogaerde, gastroenterologist
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#16 Food and mood with Prof Felice Jacka
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
#9 Which oils are safe to cook with? with Dr Joanna McMillan, PhD
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Show Notes
Online Resources
A GP guide to reversing diabetes with low-carb diets: with a growing evidence base, GPs can be confident in recommending carbohydrate restriction as a safe and effective option for ‘diabesity’
Australian Food Composition Database: the gold standard of nutrient profiles of foods
Examine.com: independent scientific examination of nutritional supplements
PCRM nutrition guide for clinicians: provides expert, evidence-based support to healthcare professionals. Plant only approach.
NutritionFacts.org: Find out what the science is saying about your favourite foods. Plant only approach.
Cuisinicity: Love food that loves you back. Catherine Katz, neuroscientist PhD turned health food chef, covers free recipes, videos & more!
Dr. Valter Longo: eating for longevity and the fasting-mimicking diet
Can real food from real farms lead to real health? Ted talk by Joel Salatin
CreateCures.Org: Create Cures Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organisation dedicated to the purpose of promoting creative, educational and scientific programs aimed at ensuring healthy lives, improving the well-being of all ages and reducing mortality due to noncommunicable diseases
Diet Doctor: One of the world’s largest keto and low-carb websites, Diet Doctor has hundreds of meal plans, videos and a support network for those interested in trying a low-carb or keto diet
DrJoanna.com: Scottish-born Dr Joanna McMillan has become one of Australia’s favourite and best-known nutrition and lifestyle specialists. She is a PhD qualified nutrition scientist, Accredited Practising Dietitian, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with La Trobe University, guest lecturer at The University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
Books
How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger
Why rely on drugs and surgery to cure you of life-threatening disease when the right decisions can prevent you from falling ill to begin with? How Not To Die gives effective, scientifically validated nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers – heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes – revealing the astounding health benefits that simple dietary choices can provide.
What the Fat, Grant Schoefield
This book is more than just a diet plan or a cookbook – written by the Fat Professor, the Whole-food Dietitian & the Michelin-trained Chef – it’s a new way of eating that will change your life. For good. Low carb healthy fat eating has never been so easy. Welcome to the ultimate practical “how to” and scientific guide.
On Eating Meat, Matthew Evans
Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appetite for meat – especially cheap meat. Former food critic and chef, now farmer and restaurateur Matthew Evans grapples with the thorny issues around the ways we produce and consume animals. From feedlots and abattoirs, to organic farms and animal welfare agencies, he has an intimate, expert understanding of the farming practices that take place in our name. Evans calls for less radicalisation, greater understanding, and for ethical omnivores to stand up for the welfare of animals and farmers alike. Sure to spark intense debate, On Eating Meat is an urgent read for vegans and carnivores alike.
Proteinaholic, Dr Garth Davis
An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry’s focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight.
The Truth About Food, Dr. David Katz
In The Truth about Food, one of the world’s leading authorities on lifestyle medicine, health promotion, and the prevention of chronic disease lays out not just what he knows about diet and health, but how and why he knows it. This book uniquely empowers readers to benefit from what’s fundamentally and reliably true – while setting us all free from fads, false claims, and distractions by showing how to differentiate truth from the exploitative “lies” that abound. This book would be much shorter if it only detailed what we know to be true today. It shows how to keep up with new findings, too, and most importantly- how never to be duped again. Based on science, informed by uncommon sense, and aligned with the global consensus of diverse experts, The Truth about Food is an invitation to add years to your life and life to your years; to love the food that loves you back for a lifetime; and to enjoy the comforting confidence that only comes from genuine understanding.
The Longevity Diet, Dr. Valter Longo
Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Dietis easier to follow than you’d think. The culmination of 25 years of research on ageing, nutrition, and disease across the globe, this unique combination of an everyday diet and fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) to be done only 3-4 times per year lays out a simple solution to living to a healthy old age through nutrition.
The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner
In this New York Times bestseller, longevity expert Dan Buettner draws on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities—Blue Zones—around the globe to highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices that will add years to your life and life to your years. A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are you may live up to a decade longer. So what’s the formula for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has lead teams of researchers across the globe to uncover the secrets of Blue Zones—geographic regions where high percentages of centenarians are enjoying remarkably long, full lives The recipe for longevity, Buettner has found, is deeply intertwined with community, lifestyle, and spirituality. You won’t find longevity in a bottle of diet pills or with hormone therapy. You’ll find it by embracing a few simple but powerful habits, and by creating the right community around yourself. In The Blue Zone, Buettner has blended his lifestyle formula with the latest longevity research to inspire lasting behavioral change and add years to your life.
UnDo It! Drs Dean and Anne Ornish
Dean Ornish, M.D. has directed revolutionary research proving, for the first time, that lifestyle changes can often reverse-undo-the progression of many of the most common and costly chronic diseases and even begin reversing aging at a cellular level. Dr. Ornish’s lifestyle medicine program for reversing chronic disease consistently achieves bigger changes in lifestyle, better clinical outcomes, larger cost savings, and greater adherence than have ever been reported—based on 40 years of research published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Now, in this landmark book, he and Anne Ornish present a simple yet powerful new unifying theory explaining why these same lifestyle changes can reverse so many different chronic diseases and how quickly these benefits occur.
The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: How to Beat Diabetes Fast, Michael Moseley
Our modern diet, high in low-quality carbohydrates, is damaging our bodies—producing a constant overload of sugar in our bloodstream that clogs up our arteries and piles hidden fat into our internal organs. The result has been a doubling in the number of type 2 diabetics, as well as a surge in those with a potentially hazardous condition—prediabetes. It is now known that even moderately elevated blood sugar levels can trigger heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer. But scientists have recently demonstrated that you can prevent and even reverse type 2 diabetes with a simple change in diet and lifestyle. Drawing on the work of Dr. Roy Taylor—one of the UK’s foremost diabetes experts—and his own experience as a one-time diabetic, Dr. Michael Mosley presents a groundbreaking, science-based, 8-week plan for diabetics who want to reverse their condition (and then stay off medication). He also offers a more flexible regime for people interested in the extensive health benefits to be gained from lowering their blood sugar levels and shedding dangerous fat.
Lifestyle Medicine, 3rd Edition, Garry Egger, et al.
Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial ‘causes’ of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living with injury and chronic illness due to our own choices. Changes in health patterns typically follow shifts in living conditions. Disease patterns have changed worldwide, from infectious to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This change has been so emphatic—nearly 70% of all presentations to a doctor in modern western societies are now chronic disease related—that medical services are being forced to change to accommodate this.
Online Courses
12-Day McDougall Program & Health Center
This is a 12-day interactive and intensive course run by plant-based MDs supporting a background of medical care designed to help patients regain their lost health and appearance, stop unnecessary medication and avoid “elective” surgeries. Intake is limited every 1-2 months, so book in early! The McDougall Program is a leading medical program offering disease reversal and healing to people suffering from chronic illness such as type-2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and more, through professional medical care, world-class education and a whole food, starch-based lifestyle.
The CSIRO Total wellbeing diet
Requires purchase. Formulated by Australia’s national science agency, the plan offers options for fast, sustainable weight loss and good gut health.
Free trial available. Get your diabetes back on track with this 12 week personalised online diabetes program.
Requires purchase. A plant-based approach to reversing diabetes using your food as medicine.
Free trial available. A low carbohydrate diet for improving health and diabetes
Free. Learn how to improve mental health through diet and nutrition.
As chronic and lifestyle-related diseases continue to rise, traditional 1:1 consultations are proving to be an increasingly insufficient and inefficient means of managing the needs of our patients. Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) may serve part of the solution.
Apps
Defeat Diabetes: App Store | Google Play | Website
Free trial available. A low-carb approach to reversing diabetes
Cronometer Nutrition Tracker: App Store | Google Play
Free & paid versions available. Track what you eat, discover your nutrition, compare biometrics & nutrients and meet your fitness goals.
MyFitnessPal Nutrition Tracker: App Store | Google Play
Free & paid versions available. Track your food with the world’s biggest database of food nutrient profiles. Simply scan the barcodes of over 4 million products!
Monash University FODMAP app: App Store | Google Play
Requires purchase. An app to assist in the management of gastrointestinal symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
DietID (Web app)
Requires purchase. Diet ID empowers your population to take meaningful steps towards better eating, resulting in improved health. Our goal is to help people add years to life and life to years. Our solution does just that.
Other Podcasts
The Plant Proof Podcast with Simon Hill: Apple Podcasts | Spotify
Join show host and nutritionist Simon Hill as he sits down with doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, athletes and inspiring people challenging the status quo and making positive change in the world.
Found my Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, PhD: Apple Podcasts
Promoting strategies to increase healthspan, wellbeing, cognitive and physical performance through deeper understandings of biology.
The Doctor’s Kitchen with Dr Rupy Aujla: Apple Podcasts | Spotify
Covering a range of topics from the principles of healthy eating to how to prevent and treat illness, Dr Rupy and his panel of experts draw on the latest research to give you actionable tips to help supercharge your health.
Health, Nutrition & Functional Medicine with Dr Michael Ruscio: Apple Podcasts
Cutting edge information in health, nutrition and functional medicine distilled into practical advice you can use to improve your health. NB: I am not endorsing this podcast, but for those interested in knowing what their patients may be coming across in this realm, Michael is one of the most sensible functional/integrative practitioners I have come across.
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