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Can You Get All Your Nutrients From Only Food?

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Brain Food: Review Of The MIND Diet

The MIND diet is a combination of a Mediterranean Diet and a DASH (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) Diet. Food Frequency Questionnaire: Uses dietary recall. Though not one of the best ways to study nutrition, it is validated in clinical trials. What is Brain healthy food? Are whole grains good for the brain?  Can you club butter and margarine together? What about saturated fats? Are they good or bad for the brain? Alzheimer's Disease is considered to be Type 3 Diabetes. The brain ...

Do You Need Strength Training?

Sandra's email: [email protected] Canadian 24 hour movement guidelines. World Health Organization Exercise Guidelines 2020.

What Do Your Lab Reports Tell You? Part 2 Liver Enzymes, MPV, Uric Acid

Are Whole Grains Healthy?

References: Personalized Nutrition By Prediction of Glycemic Response. Glucotypes Reveal New Patterns of Glucose Dysregulation.  

What Do Your Lab Reports Tell You? Part 1 Glucose, Glycated Haemoglobin(HbA1C) and Insulin

The differences between "normal" lab ranges and optimal lab ranges. What is an optimal fasting glucose level? HbA1C varies based on ethnicities. Low fasting insulin may not always reflect an accurate picture.

Sleep and Mental Health: Cause or Effect?

References Sleep complaints and psychiatric challenges 1 year later. Correlates of long sleep duration. "....not only is sleep disturbance a phenotypic feature of many neuropsychiatric illnesses, but it may in fact predispose, contribute to, and dare we say it, cause them" 

All About Salt: How much is too much? How little is too little?

Too much or too little salt. Both are harmful. Hw to find out what is right for you? Hypertension and salt intake. Any tests to know your personal salt threshold? Do genes have any impact?

Depression Is Like Any Other Chronic Disease

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Health Myths Part 2

What are  the  health myths they talk about? 1) Wine is good for your heart. Alcohol and weight loss episode.              Canada's Low Risk Drinking Guidelines 2) You need to carb-load before a workout. 3) Do you need to eat right after exercise 4) Fasting is a fad diet. It is dangerous to starve yourself. 5) You need to eat every 2-3 hours or eat several small meals. 6) Glucose or sugar is the body's preferred fuel source. 7) You need to drink protein shakes to make sure you get en...

Health Myths Part 1

MYTHS Exercise is the way to lose weight. Eat low fat to lose fat. Resting Energy Expenditure , low carb diet versus low fat diet. 10% weight loss and long term health. Counting calories or just eating less is the best way to lose weight. Related blogpost. Eat heart-healthy grains at every meal. Personalised Blood Sugar Response video. Prioritise protein. Individualised. Carb not essential nutrient. Fat and protein are essential nutrients. Cholesterol from food will kill you. (Longer ep...

Fat Shaming

Definition of fat shaming. As parents, are you unknowingly using language that adversely affects your son or daughter? What are some of the ways in which you may think you are helping your child but is counter-productive? Brief reference to the role of media in fat shaming. Tools and strategies to help you address this. Body-positive movement. Contact Dr.Latika Ahuja on Linkedin

Food And Immunity

Welcome to the newly revised and updated “Health Simplified” Podcast, formerly known as the “Metabolic Dietary Solutions” podcast. In this episode we talk about Eating for Immunity. Which at the time of this recording we have been in the midst of this Covid 19 pandemic for 8-12 weeks depending on where in the world you live. Also introducing special guest host Deepak Saini.

How To Have A Better Brain At Any Age

Many things hurt the brain. All of us are going through the Covid 19 pandemic. On this episode Shabnam talks about things that we can do right now to maintain and enhance brain function. What food is good for the brain? What is the optimal fasting blood glucose level for your brain? How does exercise help in brain fitness? What supplements help brain function? Is stress really killing you? Is your blood pressure at an optimal level? These are some of the questions she answers in this episode.

10 Hours Time Restricted Eating Improves Health

Reference to paper Ten- Hour Time-Restricted Eating Reduces Weight, Blood Pressure and Atherogenic Lipids in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.    

Do We Really Need Dietary Fibre?

Prepare To Travel

Michal and Shabnam discuss strategies while travelling. How to eat well, what supplements to carry, how to plan ahead. 

Diet and weight loss in Hypothyroidism

  Articles referred to in the podcast Ebbeling, Cara B., et al. "Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial." bmj363 (2018): k4583. Leibel, Rudolph L., Michael Rosenbaum, and Jules Hirsch. "Changes in energy expenditure resulting from altered body weight." New England Journal of Medicine 332.10 (1995): 621-628.

New Canada Food Guide: What is good and what is not.

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

Is Alcohol Getting in the Way of Your Fat Loss Goals?

What is a standard drink? Paper in journal Obesity:Chao, Ariana M., et al. "Alcohol Intake and Weight Loss During Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Diabetes." Obesity 27.1 (2019): 30-40.

Eating Outside on a Low Carbohydrate Eating Plan

Michal and Shabnam discuss the stretegies that you can use while eating outside when eating low carbohydrate food. They talk about personalised blood sugar response and how it can help you choose a carbohydrate.  Here is the link to download Michal's FREE eBook! 

Do Calories Count?

Does the Calorie-In-Calorie-Out Hypothesis work? Does the low fat diet work for fat loss? Can you eat too many calories? These are a few of the questions Michal and Shabnam answer on this podcast. Here is the link for the free download of eBook Intermittent Fasting Deciphered. Email : [email protected]

Do you need to eat frequent meals to lose fat?

All About Caffeine

Is Juicing Good For You

Is drinking fruit juice healthy? Should it be a part of a healthy eating plan? Michal and Shabnam discuss some of the important aspects of juicing. If you have any questions plesae feel free to email at [email protected]

Can You Get All Your Nutrients From Food Alone?

Is an adequate diet truly adequate? Find out more from this podcast where Michal Ofer and Shabnam Das Kar discuss why that may be a tall order!

Is Carbohydrate an Essential Nutrient?

Traditionally many of you have been high carbohydrtae eaters. Are carbohydrates essential to life? SDK is asked this very often when she talks to people about reducing their carbohydrate intake for fat loss or better blood sugar control or to reduce brain fog or inflammation.In this episode Michal and Shabnam discuss whether you can live without your carbs and what is the difference in the carbohydrates that your previous generation consumed versus what you are eatig today.

Fasting When Feasting

In this episode Michal and Shabnam talk about things that get in your way during holidays , strategies to overcome them, how lack of sleep interferes with your best laid plans. Shabnam shares her personal experience with Time Restricted Eating and Intermittent Fasting.

Intermittent Fasting

In this episode Michal Ofer, Functional Nutritionist and Digestive Health Expert from Canada and Dr.Shabnam Das Kar, specialist in Functional Medicine from India discuss their personal experience of intermittent fasting and some practical steps and what may get in your way. They also discuss some of the benefits that people have experienced from intermittent fasting. Michal Ofer's blog

Gut Microbiome

In this episode Michal Ofer ,Functional Nutritionist and Digestive Health Expert,is in conversation with Dr. Shabnam Das Kar, specialist in Functional and Metabolic Medicine from India.They talk about the microbiome , how food influences your gut microbiome and how best to take care of your gut bugs. Michal Ofer's blog

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

In this podcast Michal Ofer AND Shabnam Das Kar are discussing SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), symptoms, made of treatment......the use of herbals versus antibiobitics, the different conditions like IBS, RA,Fibromyalgia, diabetes, gut dysbiosis and many more taht are associated with SIBO. REFERENCES: Chedid V, Dhalla S, Clarke JO, et al. Herbal Therapy Is Equivalent to Rifaximin for the Treatment of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. Global Advances in Health and Medicine...

Food and Functional GI Disorders like IBS.

In this episode Michal Ofer ,Functional Nutritionist and Digestive Health Expert,is in conversation with Dr. Shabnam Das Kar, specialist in Functional and Metabolic Medicine from India. They are discussing the role of food in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders like IBS. They talk about gluten, diary, low FODMAPS diet and the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Low FODMAPS Diet

Food Allergies,Sensitivities ,Intolerances,Celiac Disease and Non Celiac Gluten Sensitivity

Michal Ofer, a Functional Nutritionist and Digestive Health Expert from Calgary,Canada in conversation with Dr Shabnam Das Kar, Specialist in Functional And Metabolic Medicine from India. Reference: Sapone, Anna, et al. "Spectrum of gluten-related disorders: consensus on new nomenclature and classification." BMC medicine 10.1 (2012): 13.

Food and Cholesterol: Are they related?

Dr. Shabnam Das Kar, Specialist in Functional and Metabolic Medicine from India is in conversation with Michal Ofer, Functional Nutritionist from Calgary,Canada. On this podcast they discuss the relation between food and cholesterol. Is your blood cholesterol level related to dietary cholesterol? What about triglycerides and carbohydrates? They also briefly discuss "leaky gut" and LPS. Here is the link to the blog post that Dr Kar mentions on the podcast. Dr Jason Fung's blogpost.

Low Carbohydrate Vegetarian Eating

This is our first Podcast! On this Michal Ofer, who is a Functional Nutritionist from Calgary, Canada ,is in conversation with Dr Shabnam Das Kar, a Specialist in Functional and Metabolic Medicine from India and Director Medical Education at Better Medical Centre, Calgary.