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Reinventing the Supermarket

Melody Pattison Mehta

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Founder of Reinventing the Supermarket, Global Brand Strategy Consultant, Commentator on Social Trends (focus - obesity, diabetes, nutrition, supermarket products, ingredients, ethics, environment) - currently releasing podcast interviews with world's most influential voices on the subjects of nutrition, obesity, health and nutrition.
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We are joined by nephrologist and obesity researcher Dr Jason Fung. Dr Fung is a researcher and clinician who is achieving superb results using fasting in the treatment of both obesity and diabetes. Dr Fung’s work brings together critical insights on insulin resistance, the nature of long term obesity, the weight set-point and how to alter it, and …
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We are joined by paediatric endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig. Dr Lustig is well known in the field of nutrition for his epic lecture titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth, which has attracted millions of views on youtube. The issue that Dr Lustig was calling to the world’s attention in that lecture is that when we think of sugar in terms of “calories”, we…
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We are joined by academic and author Marion Nestle. Back in 2002 Marion Nestle authored the acclaimed book Food Politics, sharing its name with her popular Food Politics blog which champions the role of real food in a healthy human diet. Marion’s most recent book, Soda Politics, brings the food politics battle right to the door of the giant soft dr…
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We are joined by author and educator Anna Lappé. Anna is the author of the lauded environmental book Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. For those not already familiar with her fascinating career, Anna Lappé is a passionate and outspoken advocate for sustainable, real foods and systems of …
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We welcome investigative journalist and author Gary Taubes to discuss the low fat dogma that has caused supermarkets to become mainly filled with low-fat, sugary, highly refined grain and starch-based products. We’ll also be talking about Taubes’ restatement of the nature of caloric balance - most of us know it as the “calories in vs calories out” …
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We welcome scientist and researcher Dr Stephanie Seneff. Stephanie is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. As a biophysicist and electrical engineer, Dr Stephanie Seneff brings the ideal skill set to the table to discuss many of the issues besetting our human health today, as the population…
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We are joined by Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of Terracycle as we discuss what’s known as “post consumer waste”. The supermarket is responsible for a vast amount of the trash and wastage in our world, and the focus of Tom Szaky and of Terracycle is to identify the treasure we’ve invested in that trash, and to recycle and upcycle as much as possible s…
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New York Times bestselling author and top neurologist Dr David Perlmutter joins us to discuss the importance of having healthy gut bacteria if we want to live a healthy life. Dr Perlmutter is the author of the acclaimed bestselling books Grain Brain and Brain Maker. We discuss the effects of grains and breads on our gut health and how they impact o…
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Renowned cardiologist and author Dr William Davis joins us to discuss the myths and misconceptions around the meme of the “healthy whole grain”. Dr Davis became more widely recognised a few years back when his now famous book Wheat Belly shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list. We discuss some of the many health issues that are bei…
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Top scientist Professor Tim Noakes joins us to discuss where we have to go if we follow the science when it comes to nutrition. While Professor Noakes has been known for decades as a thought leader in sports medicine and nutrition, he’s now become a major force promoting the health benefits of what is called the Low Carb-High Fat or LCHF way of eat…
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In this first discussion for The Bread Project we welcome one of the world’s great eco-activists, Simran Sethi. Simran recently launched her superb book - Bread Wine Chocolate - the slow loss of foods we love. The book itself is a delectable voyage into our relationships with some of our most beloved and ancient foods, and it provides a sober warni…
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America’s most famous farmer, Joel Salatin joins us to discuss how healthy, conscious farming systems beget healthy food systems and a healthy ecology. Joel Salatin was featured in Michael Pollan’s bestselling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and is author of his own series of books including Folks, This Ain’t Normal and You Can Farm. We’ll be discussi…
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International bestselling author of Keto Clarity and Cholesterol Clarity, Jimmy Moore joins us to discuss how innocent-looking products and what many consider to be “everyday” foods are the cause of obesity and other diseases of civilisation. We discuss misleading labels and how even well known diet brands can be loading their products with the ver…
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Investigative journalist Joanna Blythman, author of the brilliant exposé Swallow This, joins us to discuss what’s going on behind the scenes with ingredients in the products we buy in the supermarket. Even healthy-looking products that look like there are no additional ingredients can be a source of chemical contaminants that may be destructive to …
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Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz joins us to discuss the critically important story of how natural saturated fats came to be demonized in the second half of the 20th century and how the promotion of polyunsaturated vegetable oils has helped ruin our health and dramatically and dangerously altered the nature of the products we see on the shelv…
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In this first episode of Reinventing the Supermarket we welcome author and nutrition educator and activist Sally Fallon Morell. Along with the legendary researcher Dr Mary Enig, Sally is the author of what many consider to be one of the foundational classics of the real food movement, Nourishing Traditions. In this discussion we focus on what was h…
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