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Beyond The Basics Health Academy Podcast

Are you looking for practical, holistic, real-life solutions for healthier living? Join Dr. Meaghan Kirschling for real life education as she discusses and explores topics that affect everyday living. Dr. Meaghan brings in expert guests for a lively discussion about nutrition, supplements, holistic health, integrative medicine, and the latest research on a variety of topics. Join the Academy for the University of You!
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Now displaying: June, 2015
Jun 28, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the age-old debate on weight loss and calorie in vs calorie out.  Join us as we get feisty and discuss what we have noticed both professionally and personally.

There is a lot of debate about what is more important: exercise or diet.  We talk about both our personal or professional opinions on this subject and how to balance your life. 

Jun 27, 2015

Listen in and learn why we formed Beyond The Basics Health Academy. Why we have this passion for Health and Wellness.

Beyond The Basics Health Academy is a cutting edge online university focused on teaching you about the most important thing.. YOU!  It is health and wellness education from passionate wellness gurus. The goal of beyond the basics health academy is to build a global community of wellness focused individuals that want to learn and teach about important health issues.  The most important thing you will ever learn are the concepts you learn at the University of You...Join The Academy

 

Jun 27, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the different food additives that the US allows in their food.  We discuss the health impacts of these different food additives that are added to the food in order to ease processing, packaging, and storage.  We will talk about some changes that have occurred recently in  the food industry and praise Chipotle for the changes they are making!

 

Podcast 008: Food additives

General Mills has announced this week that they will remove all food colorings and additives from their popular cereal Trix.  These kind of manufacture based changes come from consumer driven demand. 

There has been a switch where consumers have started to demand healthier options.  This is a great trend to see!

www.foodmatters.tv is a great website with lots of information about health and wellness.  It is based on a documentary called Food Matters.  This is a great documentary about how our food choices have changed and how it is affecting us.

The US has been using different food additives over the last 50-60 years.  We now have about 9000 different additives.  Most other countries , like Norway, France, and Germany, have banned most of these additives.

Blue #1 and Blue #2, Yellow #6, and Red dye #3 are some of the biggest culprits and have been linked to certain health concerns such as chromosomal damage.

“Be kind to others, take care of yourself, and make good choices”

 

Jun 26, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the impact that diet, nutrition, and our food choices have on our overall health. What we eat each day can significantly affect us in both positive or negative ways but it can prove to be very difficult to make permanent diet changes sometimes. In this episode, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss some things to think about when changing your diet and why it is so important to make these changes.

Jun 26, 2015

Wendy and Dr. Meaghan discuss the importance of detoxification and the different detoxification programs that are out there. They discuss what you can put in your body to help to promote detoxification and what things you don’t want to allow in your body that lead to detoxification.

Jun 26, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy tackle the subject of hormones. Wendy talks about some of the issues that she has noticed when it comes to hormones throughout her life, testing and treatment, and what can be done do to improve overall health and wellness.

Hormones are important to women throughout their lifetime.  Concerns with hormones can occur at any age and show up in a variety of symptoms. Men, too, can have many hormone problems from infertility to weight gain.

Jun 26, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss what trans fats are and why they are being taken out of our diet by 2018. We will touch on FDA regulation of supplements and the differences between different supplement brands as well as some simple steps that can be taken to improve overall health and wellness.

Trans Fats are artificial fats that are found in foods to help make fats more sustainable and to preserve them longer. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) did research in the 1990s to find what levels of trans fats are safe in a human diet.

Jun 26, 2015

What organ system do we now consider "The Second Brain" because of its role in overall health and wellness? What system has 70% of the immune system connected to it? What system plays a major role in regulating neurotransmitters, especially serotonin - the feel good hormone? The answer to all of these questions is the digestive system.

In this episode, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the importance of maintaining good gut health throughout life and how this will help increase your overall well being. They will also touch on specific digestive concerns and how you can help to alleviate problems that you are having in your digestive system.

Jun 26, 2015

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the role of sugar in our diet and how it has changed throughout the years. In this episode, we will learn the simple truths about why we are eating more sugar and the effects that this has on our health. We will discuss the average levels of sugar in the average American diet and discuss how much sugar we are truly consuming everyday. The truth about SUGAR and why we are so FAT.

Jun 25, 2015

We live in a time of convenience and we are always on the go. One of the major driving forces of food choices is money and accessibility. Therefore, we are eating more processed, easy to prepare food and eating out at restaurants.

In this podcast, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the truth about eating out and what is added to food when prepared by restaurants. We talk about general food changes that we have seen in the past few decades and we explore what we can do to make better food choices.

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