137 - The challenges and importance of eating healthily with Dr Rupy Aujla

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dr Rupy Aujla was in his mid-20s and beginning his career as a doctor when heart problems caused him to re-evaluate what he thought he knew about health, nutrition and medicine. Having previously rejected his parents’ influences of traditional Indian medicine, Dr Rupy began delving deeper into some of those concepts and the science of nutrition that he wasn’t taught at medical school. In this episode, he talks to Dr Louise Newson about the principles of healthy eating, how a busy lifestyle and your environment often make it challenging to find and choose healthy, affordable foods, and the experts share their concerns around childhood obesity, anxiety around food, and the particular metabolic changes faced by those going through peri/menopause due to a lack of estrogen. Dr Rupy’s 3 tips for improving your nutrition: Start with making a small change to your diet by adding just one more fruit, vegetable, nut or seed, at every meal if possible. Have a back-up healthy meal that’s easy to prepare, or stored in the freezer, for those times when you are tired and lacking motivation. Try to reflect what foods you really like but find a healthier version of it. For example, if you love pasta, add 3 different vegetables to any pasta recipe. For details about Dr Rupy’s app, his books and recipe ideas, visit thedoctorskitchen.com

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.5	So today I'm very excited to have with me in the studio, Dr. Rupi, some of you might know him
0:51.1	best for the doctor's kitchen. So welcome today, Ruthie.
0:54.6	I'm very excited to have you here today. Thank you, Louise. I'm excited to be here. It's great to connect.
1:00.3	So you probably don't know it, but I've been stalking you for a while, actually. And if I didn't do anything in the menopal space, I would do something in nutrition because most people who know me know
1:11.0	I'm completely obsessed with what I eat in a healthy way, but I'm very careful about eating,
1:16.5	because actually when I eat well, I feel better and I get more out of my day. So when I bought your book,
1:21.3	was it 2015 when it came out? Uh, 2017, actually, yeah, 2017. It was interesting because then I actually when I was reading your
1:30.1	beginning words you're talking about evidence-based medicine and you're talking about how
1:37.3	improving your health using food and preventative medicine and when I read it I actually read
1:43.4	it twice it's really sad,
1:45.1	isn't it? I don't normally read whether I just go to recipes, normally in books. And I thought,
1:48.7	actually, this guy is doing what I'm trying to do with the menopause, but he probably doesn't
1:53.3	know anything about the menopause. No disrespect to you, Rupi. And I thought, how interesting,
1:57.5	there's lots of analogies here. So at afar, I've been sort of stalking and
2:01.4	watching and really actually amazed with your success, actually, and your perseverance and your
2:07.5	drive, actually, to make a difference. So make cooking and nutrition accessible to everybody.
2:14.6	So yeah, so this is a bit of a sort of stalkerish moment actually.
2:20.4	So it's a great honour to be here, but I'd really like to just learn a bit more about how you got
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