Welcome to Season 2 of caregiver tea time!
Episode 4
Let’s Get physical with Nutrition
Val studied nutrition and provided weight management counseling for over 30 years and feels it’s probably the most confusing subject there is. She sees it as a part time job to follow-through with a healthy way of eating that fits our budget, lifestyle, access to food, the preferences of people around us, and time spent cleaning up after the meal.
She shares the concept that nutrition plays a role in our genetics, contributing to factors that determine what genes turn off and on. She also shares that our genes are influenced by communication from our body's microbiome, the microscopic world that includes bacteria and fungi. She wishes there was strong evidence for specific nutrition recommendations around our microbiome, and hopes medical breakthroughs will be coming to teach us more.
In this episode Val share her Top 10 Nutrition Tips. They are based on her culture and core values that focus on the ability to enjoy what we eat and drink with the people we love.