The Nutrition Well Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nutrition Well
Welcome to The Nutrition Well Podcast. A podcast about connecting nutrition with your mind, body and soul. This podcast is hosted by Annie Tsang, a Registered Dietitian who aims to help you discover how to eat with awareness, manage cravings, love your body, and build a peaceful relationship with food. You can find us @nutritionwell on Facebook and Instagram or our website: http://www.nutritionwell.co/.
In our seventh episode, Annie breaks down the importance of different types of fats as well as a variety of sources of dietary fats. There is no shortage of confusing information regarding fats and their implications for our health, and Annie takes her listeners along as she describes why we need fats and how our body uses them. She also discusses different types of cooking oils, such as avocado and coconut and olive oil. Tune in to this episode to discover which cooking oils will pack the biggest punch in your kitchen, as well as learn that certain vitamins actually require fat to be digested!
In our sixth episode, Annie dives deep into her private practice career. She talks about why she started doing private practice along with her clinical dietitian work. She also gives insights into how dietitians are viewed now compared to when she first started being a registered dietitian. Along with her experience as a dietitian in private practice, she also uncovers the meaning of "Nutrition Well" with her dream of building her own team. In fact, she finally achieves her long-time dream and introduces about her two newest associates, James Song and Charles Go, who are both experienced registered dietitians. Listen to hear more about her experiences in private practice and her future plans!
In our fifth episode, Annie gives her listeners a closer look into hormonal and women's health, and how food and nutrition plays a role in each of these. What exactly are hormones? How does hormone imbalance manifest in the human body? What are some ways people can work to prevent hormone imbalance? How do life changes like menopause affect hormones and the nutrition we put into our bodies? Find Annie's answers to all of these questions and more, including tips on how to balance your hormones, in this episode!
In our fourth episode, Annie takes a deep dive into the world of gut health! Did you know that there are trillions of microorganisms living in our gut?! While there is still much to uncover about the gut microbiome in research, this emerging field of study is fascinating and confusing to navigate. What exactly is the gut microbiome, the mind-brain connection, prebiotics, and probiotics? Do I need supplements to maintain a healthy gut microbiome? In this episode, Annie addresses some common gut conditions, the role nutrition and other factors play in gut health, and her individualized approach to making prebiotic and probiotic foods a part of the everyday diet!
In our third episode, Annie discusses her background and food traditions, how to champion your own cultural foods in a Western diet, and the impacts of sociocultural aspects on our food choices. This episode focuses on Nutrition Month 2021's theme "Good For You! Dietitians Help You Find Your Healthy" and how culture, food traditions, personal circumstances, and nutritional needs contribute to your own personalized diet. Listen to this episode to learn about the role of a dietitian in encouraging cultural foods and changing the way we see food!
In this second episode, Annie will be discussing diet culture, weight stigma, and her experience helping patients heal their relationships with food. The word, "diet culture" may not be a term most are familiar with. It stems from weight stigma and describes a culture that worships thinness, promotes weight loss, demonizes ways of eating, and moralizes food choices as "good" and "bad", "guilty pleasures" and "cheat days". This causes one to restrict their dietary intake, cut out food groups, and inhibit proper nourishment that can cause harm to the mind, body and soul. Tune into this episode to learn more about diet culture, how it manifests in Annie's work, and ways you can seek help to heal and unlearn the harms of diet culture.
In this introductory episode, Annie will be answering questions from her co-hosts about her nutrition and career journey so you can get to know her and her podcast a little better. Annie explains what is her company The Nutrition Well, journey in becoming a registered dietitian, current specialization in Dietetics, and what she hopes to achieve with this podcast.