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Episodes
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
https://academics.aut.ac.nz/grant.schofield
Grant Schofield is a professor of Public Health at AUT and director of the University's Human Potential Centre. He has been a Ted X speaker and co-authored the widely-selling book What The Fat, addressing the widespread fear of fats and the overconsumption of carbohydrates. Throughout his career, he has sought to educate the public on challenging their approach to health and provide lifestyle solutions for people to implement that can prevent chronic disease.
Things we chat about:
- His journey into health and wellbeing and his job as a professor of public health.
- How being sedentary impacts our bodies, and can we attempt to fit a week's worth of movement into the weekend?
- The traction that cold water immersion has gained, and as an advocate of this Grant explains some of the benefits, as well as the physical process occurring within our bodies.
- How can people implement cold water immersion into their daily lives, and how often should aim to do so.
- The concept of exercise as medicine and how it can help us.
- What the Fat Books and their approach to eating. What kinds of fats should we eat, and why we shouldn't be afraid of them.
- The link between sugar and inflammation and how that relates to insulin resistance and pre-diabetes.
- How we can approach our children's health and equip them from a younger age to build healthy habit
- How we can make a start on improving our health and some of his top tips around this