Working Hard, Hardly Working - Ep.45 Why Aren’t My Diets Working? Food Myths, Weightloss & Calorie Counting With Dr Tim Spector

Ep.45 Why Aren’t My Diets Working? Food Myths, Weightloss & Calorie Counting With Dr Tim Spector

06/12/23 • 70 min

Do we really know what we should be eating? Multi-award winning expert Tim Spector argues we might not. Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas' he aims to point us in the right direction so we know the hard truths behind food fads, dieting, nutrition and gut health. Having written five books, including the bestsellers Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth he is one of the most cited scientists in the world. His research aims to debunk eating myths and answers the most important questions like should we be calorie counting? What should we be eating for our gut health and why do most diets fail?

why you need to eat different foods everyday

what we should and shouldn’t be eating

the best foods for our diets

why you shouldn’t eat late at night

the shocking facts behind the ultra-processed foods you're eating everyday

how to lose weight and maintain it

does the keto diet actually work?!

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why you need to eat different foods everyday

what we should and shouldn’t be eating

the best foods for our diets

why you shouldn’t eat late at night

the shocking facts behind the ultra-processed foods you're eating everyday

how to lose weight and maintain it

does the keto diet actually work?!

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Ep.44 The Truth About Menstrual Cycle-Syncing: Working Out And Your Period With Dr Frankie Jackson-Spence

Dr Frankie is an NHS Doctor, media and content creator who offers factual and relatable health advice in preventative medicine.

A qualified doctor working on the frontline, Dr Frankie graduated with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2018. During this time, Dr Frankie set out to better understand the risk factors for cancer, becoming heavily involved in clinical trials at Barts Cancer Institute for Renal and Bladder cancer.

Alongside all of this whilst juggling university, Dr Frankie started an educational social media page to provide expertise on a range of health and wellbeing topics. In her well-known #MedicalMonday, Frankie posted a weekly poll on her Instagram to allow people to ask health-related questions, each time focusing on a different topic. Frankie’s profile in this space began to grow, and as a result Frankie now also makes regular appearances to disseminate her knowledge, becoming an enthusiastic public speaker for general preventative health.

Although there are many things I’d love to discuss with Dr Frankie, today we share a conversation about training, nutrition and the female menstrual cycle,. The episode covers the entire cycle story, exploring what a ‘normal cycle’ looks like, when ovulation occurs, and how to identify important changes that sometimes signal significant health problems. Dr Frankie also discusses how a women's strength may be affected by constantly changing hormone levels, and how we can adjust our training and nutrition to reach our full potential at any point in our cycle.

This episode is important for both men and women, so if you're a female (or know one), I strongly recommend you listen...

When you should be concerned about your periods?!

3 essential things women should do to live a healthier life

Can training on your period help with menstrual cramps?

Why you should track your period if you work out

How do we know when we can push ourselves harder when we work out on our periods?

Should we replace the iron we lose during our period?

Why you need to eat before working out

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Ep.46 From Childstar To Girlband, TV Broadcaster & Entrepreneur: How To Constantly Evolve With Rochelle Humes

Having risen to fame when she was just 12 years old, Rochelle Humes has gone from childhood popstar featuring in the band S Club 7 juniors to becoming a member of the hit UK girl group The Saturdays and now the best-loved online personality and TV broadcaster. Having had it all from such a young age Rochelle is transparent about the highs and lows, being raised in a single parent household and understanding the absence her father left on the family, to the hard graft of being in a pop group, meeting her now husband Marvin Humes member of the boy band JLS and sharing the journey of becoming a mother. This has prompted her online social media journey sharing her life to over 2 million Instagram followers and most recently has become a founder of the lifestyle brand My Little Coco, a skin and hair care brand aimed at families featuring in Boots.

-Rochelle’s early life

-Rochelle’s experience being raised by a single mother

-Rochelle’s relationship with her absent father

-How Rochelle started out in the music industry

-Life in S Club Juniors

-How early fame affected her career

-The crazy story on how Rochelle met her sister through Kem from Love Island

-What life was like in a girlband

-How Rochelle has found the media industry

-How Rochelle has found motherhood

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