The Nutritional Scientist: Do Not Eat After 9pm! Link Between Chewing & Belly Fat!

If you go on social media... "Seed oils are toxic. Seed oils are gonna give you Alzheimer's. Seed oils are gonna give you cancer." But I've done lots of research, and there is absolutely no evidence to show seed oils are harmful. Actually, they're beneficial for our health. And I'll come back to that, but the problem is that there is so much misinformation out there about what we eat, how we eat, and how it affects our health.

So let's go into all of that. Dr. Sarah Berry is a renowned nutrition scientist and professor. With over 20 years of research, her work has reshaped how we think about food, metabolism, and gut health. Dr. Sarah Berry, we have a lot to get through.

Yes.

So let's start with the food matrix.

That's so important because you can have two foods with identical labeling, same nutrients and calorie value, but can have entirely different impacts in terms of how you metabolize that food and how it impacts downstream health effects depending on how that food has been processed. Now, we also know the timing of when we eat is really important. For example, we found that snacking after 9 o'clock was associated with unfavorable health outcomes, the worst kind of fat around your belly, for example. This was even if you were snacking on healthy snacks.

Really?

And we also know that, on average, if you change the speed in which you eat your food by 20%, you'll reduce your calorie intake by about 15%. But where it gets really interesting is there's evidence to show if you chew your food 40 times versus 15 times, it can result in... And then there's the menopause. We've conducted lots of research, and one of the most exciting things is that there is principles which can reduce symptoms by about 35%. And so they are-

This has always blown my mind a little bit. 53% of you that listen to this show regularly haven't yet subscribed to the show. So could I ask you for a favor before we start? If you like the show, and you like what we do here, and you want to support us, the free simple way that you can do just that is by hitting the subscribe button. And my commitment to you is if you do that, then I'll do everything in my power, me and my team, to make sure that this show is better for you every single week. We'll listen to your feedback, we'll find the guests that you want me to speak to, and we'll continue to do what we do. Thank you so much. Dr. Sarah Berry, can you give me a little bit of an overview over what you've spent the last sort of 25 years of your career focusing on and understanding?

Yeah. So I've spent 25 years starting out in quite a specific area, looking at how diet impacts our cardio-metabolic health. So by this, I mean lots of factors related to cardiovascular disease, like type 2 diabetes, our cholesterol, our blood pressure, our inflammation. And then, uh, more recently, I've been looking at how actually we piece together all the complexity of who we are, what we eat, how we eat, um, into how that actually impacts how we respond to food and the healthfulness of a food. Um, most of my work's been done through running clinical trials, so randomized control clinical trials, where I recruit various people, get them to eat various things, do loads and loads of different measurements, and look at how a food or a nutrient or a diet might impact a particular health outcome.