Real Food Initiatives for Public Health in the UK
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (traffic.libsyn.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Sam Feltham is the Director of the Public Health Collaboration in the UK, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of public health education. The PHC coordinates campaigns and produces evidence-based reports for improving pressing health issues, such as obesity and diabetes, which are on the rise in the UK and worldwide. I met up with Sam at the Real Food Rocks Festival in July, a family event coordinated by the PHC to bring people together with music, fun, and of course, real food.
In this podcast, Sam and I discuss the current initiatives being pursued by the Public Health Collaboration, including training and deploying a nationwide team of volunteer ambassadors to inform and implement healthier decisions at a local level. We discuss some of the obstacles encountered in educating the public, and Sam shares some of his long-term goals for a healthier future.
Here's the outline of this interview with Sam Feltham:[00:00:09] Real Food Rocks Festival.
[00:02:25] The Public Health Collaboration (PHC).
[00:03:24] PHC Advisory Board members: Dr. David Unwin and Dr. Jen Unwin, Dr. Trudi Deakin.
[00:07:24] PHC Ambassadors Programme; currently 150 ambassadors across the country.
[00:08:58] Andy Bishop; reversed type-2 diabetes and now runs patient groups
[00:10:11] Current obstacles: perceived cost and the existing government guidelines.
[00:11:28] Sugar infographics, endorsed by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
[00:12:48] The value of educating in small groups instead of individual sessions.
[00:16:35] Ivor Cummins; Podcasts: How Not to Die of Cardiovascular Disease and Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC): A Direct Measure of Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
[00:18:08] People under significant financial stress are 13 times more likely to have a heart attack. Study: Rosengren, Annika, et al. "Association of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11 119 cases and 13 648 controls from 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study." The Lancet 364.9438 (2004): 953-962.
[00:20:17] Denmark's saturated fat tax. It didn't last long.
[00:20:37] Influencing food policy; Real Food Lifestyle dietary guidelines.
[00:21:49] Tom Watson, deputy of the Labour Party.
[00:23:55] Type 2 diabetes is currently 10% of the NHS budget.
[00:26:29] War on Plastic show on BBC One.
[00:27:32] The grocery store sugar-laden rat run.
[00:30:50] Patric Holden, founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust.
[00:32:00] Distributed food network.
[00:34:01] Getting people into the system before they have health problems.
[00:35:14] Changing the standards for hypertension in 2017.
[00:37:19] Dr. Michael Mosley; Documentary: Michael Mosley vs. The Superbugs.
[00:41:26] How to become an ambassador; phcuk.org/ambassadors.