Dr Joanna McMillan joins us today to discuss the importance of a balanced diet and shares her tips on the plate model as a replacement to the food pyramid. We discuss how nutritional messages can be confusing and the best way to ensure that you are having a balanced diet. This episode covers some important nutritional topics and arms the listener with some good strategies for nutritional, balanced eating.

 

About Dr Joanna McMillan

Dr Joanna McMillan is one of Australia's best-known nutrition and healthy lifestyle experts and the founder of Get Lean. She is a regular on the Nine Network and the official nutritionist for TODAY. Joanna is an author of several books, has a weekly column in Sunday Life and blogs for Essential Kids. Joanna is vice-president of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association (ALMA), an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Registered Nutritionist.

 

Her accent gives her away as a Scot, but she made Australia her home in 1999 where she subsequently gained her PhD in nutritional science from the University of Sydney. Her university studies started with psychology, followed by a Bachelor of Science, all the while working as a fitness instructor, which she did for over 15 years. Together this gives her a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, and the best thing is she never sits on the healthy high horse! As a down-to-earth Scot, all her advice is tempered by what is practical, doable and fun whilst still giving the desired result.

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Joanna McMillan Website

The Food or 'Healthy Living Pyramid'

Joanna McMillan Get Lean program

Dr Joanna McMillan Plate Model

 

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