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Tara  (nutritionist) chats to Alice Zaslavsky about her food philosophy and why she is on a mission to inspire people to try new things, hop in the kitchen, and embrace veggies. Tune in to grab your dose of Alice's infectious energy and findout about: 

• Alice's food journey from Master Chef contestant and school teacher, to food writer, author, speaker, mum, and more. 
• Her food philosophy and tips for feeding children
• Insight into food memories, food behaviours and understanding how what our parents fed us, and how they fed us, impact us as adults today (we all have those horrible childhood memories of being force fed over cooked broccoli!).
• The importance of unpacking learned behaviours from childhood, and forging new paths into trying new foods as adults
• Inspiring tips for being courageous with veggies 
• Tips and tricks from her new cookbook 'In Praise of Veg'
• How to waste less food
• And more! 

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In this episode, Tara reveals why she feels the way she does, about Pete Evans.

Tara (Nutritionist) has been speaking out about Pete Evans and his dangerous dietary advice for almost 8 years.  This week, the celebrity chef and health guru's empire has come crashing down, after posting a meme displaying a neo-nazi symbol on social media. This lead to major Australian brands dumping him and distancing themselves publicly.

Tara talks through her journey in attempting to educate the public about Pete's dangerous health advice over the years,  and  provides her rationale for why she considers him  a dangerous person , revealing things you need to know about him before taking on any of his advice.


Tara is a registered Australian nutritionist, university lecturer, speaker, author and despiser of fad diets and shonky nutrition advice. 

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Tara is a university-trained Nutritionist, teacher, author and speaker. In this episode, she delves into the science behind coconut sugar to help you to understand whether switching to coconut sugar is a good thing, or not. She breaks through the marketing hype and answers these important questions: 

• Where does coconut sugar come from? 
• How did it become popular? 
• Does it have the same calories as normal table sugar (white sugar?) 
• Does it have added nutritional value? 
• Does it really contain vitamins and minerals? 

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Tara chats with Dr Nikki Stamp -  Australian cardiothoracic surgeon, author, tv presenter, and kick a$$ myth buster. 

Nikki reveals how social media is impacting our physical and mental health, and how to take control of our social media feeds. 
Also in this episode: 

• How to tell fact from fiction when reading health information online
• Her own struggles with food and body image and how that has changed over time
• Her journey from a high school student experiencing self-doubt, to commendably now one of only 11 cardiothoracic surgeons in Australia 
• The latest scoop on saturated fat and how it impacts our heart
• What we can all do for heart health

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- Can you die from a broken heart, and
- Pretty Unhealthy

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Every wondered if Frozen vegetables contain any nutrition? Tara shows you the science behind the reasons why they're packed full of nutrition. And if you're not quite sure how to use them, Tara gives a run down of her 5 faves and how she cooks with them!

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About your host: Tara is a qualified, no-nonsense nutritionist from Noosa, Australia. 

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The words we use when talking about food can have a profound effect on us, both positively, and negatively.

Tara catches up with Dietitian Kate Wengier from Foost to talk about how we can choose words to promote a healthy relationship with food, and encourage healthy eating without force. They discuss the words to avoid using, and why we need to steer clear of labeling foods as 'good' or 'bad' foods due to the effect this may have on the development of eating disorders, restricted and fussy eating, and stress associated with food and mealtimes.

This episode is important for those who have kids, but also those who don't. It will help learn how to be mindful of the language used around children, and also how the language your parents/caregivers used around you as a child may have impacted your thoughts and feelings about food and your body.

As a dietitian, and mum of four, Kate has loads of real-world experience helping families take the stress out of mealtimes and build a positive relationship with food.

In this episode Kate and Tara chat about:

- What Kate says to her children when they nag her for chocolate or complain about their lunchbox
- How to tackle whingeing at the dinner table
- Consideration of 'safe' foods
- Why we need to be more neutral about food
- The mistake she made when she was a new mum feeding her first born
- Who's job is it to eat healthily? The parent, or the child?
- How to create a positive eating environment
- and so much more!

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"Nutrition is messy and confusing...there's a reason for that" - Dr Tim Crowe

In this episode, Tara interviews Dr Tim Crowe - scientist, researcher, dietitian and educator. As the head honcho of Thinking Nutrition, Tim has a knack for breaking sciency stuff down into easy-to-understand info that you can take away and use to make positive changes for your health.

To help us understand how to know when nutrition info is nonsense, Tim talks us through the basics of:

• How nutrition studies work 
• How the media sometimes misinterpret studies and create headlines that aren't factual
• Why nutrition is so darned confusing sometimes 
• How to spot nonsense

He also touches on:

• Sugar in fruit
• Blue zone dietary patterns
• The Game Changers Documentary
• The acid/alkaline diet and whether lemon in water will 'detox' us. 

Tim has also just released his brand new podcast, Thinking Nutrition - a must-listen for anyone who would like to soak up more of Tim's wisdom. His first episode delves deeper into some of the issues presented here in this podcast, and Tim discusses some of the latest research. The Thinking Nutrition podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts from, just search 'Thinking Nutrition'

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Are there any benefits of cacao? And how does it differ from plain old (and much cheaper) cocoa? You'll find that loads of recipes now call for cacao, not cocoa. Why is this?

Find out all the answers in this informative podcast presented by Tara Leong, a qualified nutritionist from popular The Nutrition Guru and the Chef

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Tara (nutritionists and social media addict) reveals how social media influencers can actually be harming our health without us even realising it. What Tara has to say is important for anyone using social media. She provides a behind the scenes look at how health influencers get sent products and paid to promote products, and often they don't even have to have tried the product to get paid to say it's amazing.

Things like detoxes, skinny teas, protein powders are all subtly being shoved in our faces while we innocently scroll through our social media feed. This can be harming us in a number of different ways - our physical health AND mental health.

This is Part 1 of a series of episodes about this topic. Tara has extensive knowledge in the area of social media, having worked for a social media agency, and then building her own social media audience for The Nutrition Guru and the Chef. She has spoken extensively at conferences and seminars around Australia on the topic of social media and the impact it is having on our health.

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Join Tara Leong (qualified nutritionist) as she interviews friend and colleague, gut health dietitian - Lydia Sutakovsky (of the Sunshine Coast Gut Clinic), and get the answers to these burning questions that didn't get answered in Part 1: 

• What are fermented foods? 
• Do fermented foods help restore gut health, or not?
• Does bone broth actually 'heal' the gut, or is this just another wellness fad?
• Does eating fruit ruin the gut microbiome and cause illness? 

Lydia and Tara take an evidence-based approach to answer these questions during this conversational interview, packed with interesting info that you can trust.

You'll feel like you are a fly on the wall, listening to two nutrition pals having a yack about all the latest on gut health.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, go and do so, as this gives you the basics of gut health and is a great introduction to understanding this topic.

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