National campaign for food education (#VoteRachel)
Rachel Cook
Managing Director, Brand Consultant, Health, Charity, Mental Health, DEI Champion.
Fight inflammation at all costs, eat fresh berries and oily fish
Be vegan if you want to live longer, dairy is for cows
Avoid fake meat, it’s ultra-processed
But a bit of what you fancy will do you good
Not alcohol of course, it’s poison, we all know that
Though daily red wine is a must for the polyphenols
Take a good all-round multi-vitamin and extra Vitamin D
Get all of your nutrients from real food
Fast for longevity, 16:8 is the ideal rule
But don’t be controlling of your food
Stress is the enemy, get rid of it, quit work if you must
But still buy fresh, organic food every day, ignore the cost
Eat 30 plants a week to feed your gut microbiome
Avoid food miles, buy seasonal and ideally home-grown
Try seed-cycling to sort out your hormones
Though seed oils are toxic, stay well away
3L of water every day, always BPA-free
But it must be plain or with lemon, don’t cheat with tea
Have water before a meal to eat fewer calories
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No water before a meal, it ruins your digestion
No caffeine after 11am
Except espresso before a workout, that’s fine
Balance your blood sugar and steer clear of snacks
Five small meals is probably better than three
Have apple cider vinegar to smooth out those spikes
Avoid sugar at all costs, always read the labels
Though natural sweeteners are fine (except when they’re not)
When in doubt, just eat as the cave people did
Be fully informed on nutrition but always go with your gut...
Yikes.
I’m fascinated by nutrition and believe that what we eat has the power to completely transform our lives and bodies. But recently I’ve become completely overwhelmed by the conflicting information, and it leaves me wondering: how is anyone supposed to know what to do for the best? Who’s telling us how to live long, happy, healthy lives by using food to its best advantage? It’s such a key component of health yet there seems to be a huge vacuum and no one – not schools, not the health service, not public health – seems to be filling it with smart, evidence-based recommendations. Even things like ‘eat your 5 a day’ are apparently flawed, so what are we supposed to believe?
I’m on a mission to find the truth, consuming anything I can get my hands on, including reading a couple of nutrition books at the same time to see if I can find the truth. Both describe themselves as a revolution and the source of the best way to eat. Both seem legit, thoughtful and science-backed. But they disagree on so many fundamental points – how can both be true? They’d both argue ‘try their tips and see what works for your body’ but the problem is my body is confused. I can’t view diet and nutrition in isolation, when my gut and mental health and everything else quite frankly is affected by bigger things like stress, lifestyle, pollution, changing hormone levels, antibiotics, how recently I had a holiday, etc.
And if I don’t know, and I’m spending serious time trying to find the answers, is it any wonder we’ve got a global population that suffers with obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and mental illness? We’re simply not equipping people with the information to take control of their own health via nutrition.
Vote Rachel for change
I'm struggling for answers here. But if you made me Health Minister, here's what I'd do: I’ll fund a national 20-year campaign to distil the best information and educate the British people on how to apply this to their lives. (Naturally I'd appoint ThreeTenSeven (formerly Thompson Brand Partners) to deliver it. We'd work with real people to understand needs and concerns, co-create exceptional creative and messaging to make sure the messages really land and stick. We'd continually iterate to make sure our message lands and create the biggest ever longitudinal study to show that better eating improves life quality and life expectancy.) Naturally, I’ll tackle this at the same time as reducing food poverty and improving access to good, fresh food. Because I don’t need to read books to know it’s more fresh food that will make the difference, and that’s got to be available to everyone, not wrapped in jargon or pseudo-science, but just smart, simple messaging that’s accessible to all.
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Strategic Account Manager and Health Coach
9 个月Well said, Rach! The amount of conflicting information out there is very confusing, especially for young people. Research shows that they're increasingly turning to apps such as TikTok to search for information, which increases their risk of finding a lot of false health advice or following trends that aren't healthy for them in the long run #voterachel
I feel this 100 per cent!! #voterachel