Speaker 1: Oh hello, thank you for joining us healthy listeners on
Speaker 1: this daily podcast from Body and Soul. I am Felicity
Speaker 1: Harley and as this EPP drops on a Friday, I
Speaker 1: have a special guest, no, not Holly. This week she
Speaker 1: is gallivanting around Europe. I'm joined by our fantastic producer,
Speaker 1: Tabby Wilson, and of course we are talking through the
Speaker 1: three hottest topics in the health and wellness world this week.
Speaker 2: Tabby, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Thank you. It's been a while since I've been behind
Speaker 3: the man in a.
Speaker 1: Minute, and you have been to Paris? How was that
Speaker 1: the Olympics.
Speaker 4: The Olympics was pretty incredible. I have to say I
Speaker 4: got to see Simone Bars when her gold. I saw
Speaker 4: my first Hannis match, which I mean I've probably peaked there.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'll get something quite as good as
Speaker 4: watching the men's doubles take out gold for Australia. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I was an incredible truth And I've never spent much
Speaker 4: time in Paris, but I think I might be in
Speaker 4: love with that city.
Speaker 1: I'll have to be back. Well, it's nice to have
Speaker 1: you back in the chair this week. Now I'll kick
Speaker 1: off with well, my pick of the week on the
Speaker 1: website this week, and it was simple ways to slash
Speaker 1: sugar intake.
Speaker 2: Do you know how much added sugar there is in
Speaker 2: your diet?
Speaker 4: I would suspect fairly high as someone who's got a
Speaker 4: bit of a sweet died or.
Speaker 2: How much we should consume. I really don't have any idea.
Speaker 4: No, in terms of late grams. Yeah, yeah, no, I've
Speaker 4: got no idea.
Speaker 2: Twenty five a day or less twenty five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that dear, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: So this story was by friend of our podcast, Nutrition
Speaker 1: Is Susie Barrel, and she shared seven simple ways to
Speaker 1: slash sugar intake. Just going to share a few, and
Speaker 1: I thought they were really good because they were a
Speaker 1: bit different. And I think with sugar's it sneaks into
Speaker 1: your diet, doesn't it in places that you don't actually realize.
Speaker 1: So these are particularly foods that a lot of us
Speaker 1: probably assume are healthy, and they are to a degree,
Speaker 1: but they're loaded with sugar.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Number one flavored oats, So change flavored oats to whole oats.
Speaker 1: So you know there's a little sashets you get, yes, like.
Speaker 3: The apple cinnamon or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean they might sound delicious, actually might.
Speaker 1: I think my kids when whenever we walk into cereal aisle,
Speaker 1: they're always like, oh, let's go those ones. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: well they're actually loaded with sugar. So you can get
Speaker 1: two teaspoons of added sugar per serving. That doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a lot, but it's a lot when it comes
Speaker 1: to your daily quota. So look for whole oats and
Speaker 1: you can also sweeten them up with fruit, vanilla or
Speaker 1: cinnamon to make your breakfast fuller.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a really great tip.
Speaker 4: And I think something that I've looked at a lot
Speaker 4: recently is just breakfast in general is where I find
Speaker 4: a lot of sugar sneaks in, particularly in granola, because
Speaker 4: if you pick the wrong one, they're so they are
Speaker 4: so loaded.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the Actually when it comes to breakfast as well,
Speaker 1: beware of fruit yogurt. So if you swap from fruit
Speaker 1: yogurt to Greek yogurt, you can eliminate as much as
Speaker 1: five to ten grams of sugar.
Speaker 4: That's crazy if you're daily amounts twenty five exactly.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, Greek yogurt is interesting. I
Speaker 1: personally never used to like it, but you can acquire.
Speaker 1: It's an acquired taste. It can be quite bitter, yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you mix it. I have it on my cereal. Actually, well,
Speaker 1: don't have cereal. I have like fruit and a bit
Speaker 1: of granola and then Greek yogurt on top.
Speaker 4: Flissa and I talk a lot about breakfast off microphone,
Speaker 4: so we're well acquainted.
Speaker 3: With of what we eat.
Speaker 4: And I've taken a leaf out of your book actually,
Speaker 4: and I've also been making my own granola bit of
Speaker 4: a humble raguly purely because I have been looking at
Speaker 4: the sugar content and thinking, oh my goodness, and I
Speaker 4: really want to up my fiber. That's one of my
Speaker 4: goals for the next couple of months. That's very impressive, Tabby,
Speaker 4: I am impressive tab granola trade my that The other
Speaker 4: one I just want to share is it was a
Speaker 4: really interesting one. But Susie recommends switching sweet chili to
Speaker 4: soy sauce.
Speaker 2: Now bottled sauces.
Speaker 1: Theyre notoriously high in added sugars, and most sweet sauces
Speaker 1: and marinades can contain close to ten grams of sugar,
Speaker 1: so that's actually more than two teaspoons.
Speaker 2: So it's an easy way to get rid of just
Speaker 2: that extra sugar.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy to just cook with it something
Speaker 1: in a bottle rather than make your own. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it when we're all time poor, but just take
Speaker 1: taking those extra few minutes will slash your sugar contents.
Speaker 4: I think also, like we've Susie's been on the podcast
Speaker 4: quite a few times before, and a lot of it
Speaker 4: comes down to the level of processing in your food
Speaker 4: as well. I know that's one of her big pointers,
Speaker 4: and it sounds like from what you're saying, the less
Speaker 4: process the better when it comes to sugar content as well.
Speaker 1: Amen. Now, Tabby over to you. What's peak to your
Speaker 1: attention this week?
Speaker 4: Well, much like I think everyone in Australia and our
Speaker 4: respective cities, it is spring and the weather has been
Speaker 4: all over the place and my skin is suffering.
Speaker 3: I have been.
Speaker 4: I'm not normally a dry skin girl, but it has
Speaker 4: been unbelievably dry. So I've been doing some research into it,
Speaker 4: as you do. And the first thing I kind of
Speaker 4: wanted to learn is what is the difference between dry
Speaker 4: or dehydrated skin?
Speaker 3: Are they the same thing? Like? What matters when it
Speaker 3: comes to those things?
Speaker 4: And basically dry skin is characterized by a lack of oil,
Speaker 4: whereas dehydrated skin is a lack of water. And that
Speaker 4: is the kind of thing that you're normally going to
Speaker 4: see when you have like quite aggressive weather changes or
Speaker 4: like you're struggling with really dry air in your house.
Speaker 4: And so I had a look at kind of the
Speaker 4: things that can affect that, and one of the ones
Speaker 4: I really wanted to look at is hot showers, because
Speaker 4: we all love a hot shower, love a hot shower,
Speaker 4: particularly in these violent winds that we've been experiencing in Sydney.
Speaker 4: And based on what I hear about Melbourne, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they've got well chasing that off the.
Speaker 1: Plane from Melbourne and it was very cold and then
Speaker 1: it's going to be very hard on the weekend. So
Speaker 1: wherever you are in Australia, there is erratic weather run
Speaker 1: now exactly.
Speaker 4: And apparently, sadly, hot showers can strip our skins of
Speaker 4: its natural oils, so that would be you know, dry skin,
Speaker 4: and that can.
Speaker 3: Also cause a lot of irritation.
Speaker 4: So I guess if you have I'm quite fortunate not to,
Speaker 4: but if you have any skin complaints like XMA or
Speaker 4: something like that, it could be really exacerbated by hot showers,
Speaker 4: So that's something to think about.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is indoor heaters.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we're leaving indoor heater season, but they really reduce
Speaker 4: the humidity and the air, which can really leave your
Speaker 4: skin both dry and dehydrated depending on which way you lean.
Speaker 4: So the best way you can keep your skin hydrated,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be sound really obvious.
Speaker 3: Water Drink a lot of water. Drink a lot of.
Speaker 4: Water, but also apply moisturizers twice a day when you're
Speaker 4: struggling with dry or dehydrated skin, and maybe lean towards
Speaker 4: something a little bit thicker, particularly overnight during those winter months,
Speaker 4: because that can really up those natural.
Speaker 3: Oils in your skin.
Speaker 4: Make sure the water content in your skin is higher
Speaker 4: and skin look younger and bouncier.
Speaker 1: And happier skin. But I think we always need a
Speaker 1: reminder exactly.
Speaker 4: I mean, it all comes back to it's like all
Speaker 4: roads lead to rome, all roads leads to drinking three
Speaker 4: leads a day.
Speaker 1: And skin just quickly before we go, I had to
Speaker 1: share this study. Actually, I've told so many people about this.
Speaker 1: I read I came across it last week, so it's
Speaker 1: a study of more than one thousand GPS in the UK,
Speaker 1: and it's found that one fifth surveyed have incorporated AI
Speaker 1: into their consultations.
Speaker 3: That's insane to me.
Speaker 2: Is that horrifying or just a sign of what's to come?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So they're using bots like chat GPT and Google's barred.
Speaker 1: So this study found that almost thirty percent reported using
Speaker 1: these tools to generate documents after patient appointments, which is
Speaker 1: fair enough, but concerningly one quarter used it to suggest
Speaker 1: treatment options.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what's the.
Speaker 4: Point of training to be This is going to be
Speaker 4: a massive generalization for me, so sorry listeners, but what's
Speaker 4: the point of going to doctor school for six years
Speaker 4: and then when we're going.
Speaker 2: To be doctor chat GPT now?
Speaker 4: I mean it's making me think perhaps I just go
Speaker 4: to chat GPT when I have something a little a
Speaker 4: little funny going on, rather than paying what is it
Speaker 4: nowadays ninety to.
Speaker 3: Go and see the doctor.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's just I feel like, yes, we'll be using AI.
Speaker 1: There are pros and cons to this, but it's also
Speaker 1: quite horrifying when when you hear that and you're wondering, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's what's happening?
Speaker 4: I know when you're wondering, especially, I mean seeing a
Speaker 4: doctor is stressful anyway, particularly when you don't know what's
Speaker 4: going on. And a lot of us have a lot
Speaker 4: of trust and faith in our doctor, and we should
Speaker 4: wish as we should.
Speaker 1: Because I'm sure most of them aren't using it yet.
Speaker 1: But I've found this quite horrifying that one quarter of
Speaker 1: a thousand.
Speaker 4: I feel like this is I watch this space kind
Speaker 4: of raze absolutely Tabby.
Speaker 2: Nice to have you back on the pod scene next week.
Speaker 1: See you next week and once again listeners. If you
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Speaker 2: Thanks again for listening, and stay healthy.
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