No BS Nutrition

By Hannah Magee and Tareq Yousef

Join Registered Dietitian Hannah Magee and neuroscience PhD student Tareq Yousef every week for a one-hour food fight against diet culture and its fake science messages.

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August 27, 2021How Does Food Insecurity Affect Mental Health?
Food insecurity affects approximately 1 in 7 people around the world and that number is going to grow due to climate change and an increasing lack of resources. It is related to decreased physical health but less is known about brain health, both cognitive and mental.

How does food insecurity affect depression, cognitive performance, and other brain health parameters?

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Links:
Nicole Arsenault PhD c. on food sustainability
Food insecurity and brain health in adults: A systematic review by Alan McMichael et al, 2021

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August 25, 2021"Activated Almonds" Bring Your Nuts to Life
Tareq talks to Hannah about "activated" almonds. What are they? How do you activate them? What is it supposed to do? And the everlasting question... is it real?

Do you suffer from indigestion after eating almonds? Let's talk science!

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Links:
How activated almonds became popular
The Australian Almond Board
The effects of 'activating' almonds on consumer acceptance and gastrointestinal tolerance by Heidi Taylor et al., 2017

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August 13, 2021Answering Google's Most-Searched Nutrition Questions
Inspired by the WIRED (not Vanity Fair) "Web's most searched questions" videos on YouTube, today Hannah and Tareq are answering the Google's "most-searched" questions about nutrition.

How do I eat...healthy?
How do I eat...more protein?
What food...contains the most iron?
What food...prevents constipation?
What to eat...before a workout?
What to eat...when I'm hungover?

Press play to hear our answers!

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August 11, 2021QUIZ: Test Your Basic Nutrition Knowledge
Hannah quizzes Tareq on his basic nutrition in this episode!

What has more fibre? A cup of mango, orange, or raspberries?
Is corn a grain?
What vitamin is crucial in terms of aging?

How much gentle nutrition have you picked up listening to the podcast? Find the quiz link below and play along to see how well you do!

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CBC Nutrition Quiz

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August 06, 2021How to Deal with Pseudoscience Lovers
What do you do in a situation where you have to talk to someone who loves fake science? Do you get angry? Understanding? Do you explain the science? Do you affirm their fears? Tareq and Hannah talk through some ways to deal with fake science. Listen along and see if you can pick up any tips and tricks to make difficult conversations go smoother.

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Link:
Michael D Gordin, 2017

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August 04, 2021The Weight Loss Mysteries of Spinach
Hannah and Tareq get into this, that, and the other thing while talking about spinach. Do the chemicals in spinach membranes promote weight loss? Are thylakoids the answer to supreme health? If something is statistically sound does that mean that it necessarily translates to real-world applications? Listen along and find out.

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Links:
Eat this not that article
Appetite article
(Batsis et al., 2021)
(Amirinejad et al., 2020)

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July 30, 2021Why Do We Feel Hungrier When We're Tired?
Did you ever notice anything about your hunger levels the day after a bad sleep? Did you maybe feel…hungrier? A little more peckish? More ravenous, even? You may have noticed that you were extra hungry or even craving a specific type of food...carbs! Well, there’s a reason for that! Press play to find out what it is.

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Why Stress Causes Us to Overeat - Harvard Health

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July 28, 2021 The Problem With 'Volume Eating'
Have you heard of 'volume eating'? This style of consumption involves eating large volumes of low-calorie foods in order to achieve and/or maintain a calorie deficit, primarily for weight loss or other aesthetic goals, all while tricking your body into thinking that its full. Volume eating is popular in many fitness communities, but we have our concerns about it. Listen now to hear the problem with volume eating and why it may not be the best or most sustainable approach.

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Links:
The Problem with Eating Filling, Low Calorie Foods for Weight Loss - Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS for US News
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July 23, 2021Residential School Nutrition Experiments
This episode recounts some of the racist Canadian policies that culminated in taking advantage of Indigenous children as wards of the state in residential schools. Though dubbed nutrition experiments, what was actually happening was a cruel manipulation of children's health.

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Links:
Mosby, I. Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952)
Owens, B. Canada used hungry indigenous children to study malnutrition. Nature (2013).
Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Erica Violet Lee: Native children didn’t ‘lose’ their lives at residential schools. Their lives were stolen

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July 21, 2021Are almonds a superfood?
Forget "Big Cashew" (if you know you know), this episode is all about BIG ALMOND and "superfoods"! What the heck is a superfood and does an almond count? Why do we eat almonds on planes? What's a functional food? All these questions and more answered! Listen now at the link in the bio!

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Reisman, 2019: "Superfood as spatial fix: the ascent of the almond”

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How many episodes does No BS Nutrition have?

The podcast currently has 72 episodes available.