148 - Plant-based living with Happy Pear’s Dave and Steve Flynn

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2004, Dave and Steve Flynn started a fruit and veg shop, with the aim to create a happier, healthier world. The Happy Pear now has vegan food products in nearly 1,000 stores in Ireland, 2 cafes and a farm, and their five cookbooks have all been no.1 bestsellers. The Happy Pear online health and lifestyle courses – in which they partnered with plant-based experts from across the globe – have helped over 50,000 people from 120 different countries. In this episode, Dr Louise Newson chats with Dave and Steve about how they came to realise in their early 20’s that eating plant-based and whole foods would transform their own lives and those in their community. The lads energetically describe the different ways in which they have helped others turn their lives around, reduce risk of heart disease, feel happier and lose weight. Dave and Steve’s 3 tips to improve your diet and future health: Try to eat more whole foods, if you don’t like many vegetables, start with fruit. Be more intentional about your food choices Find your community, create an environment around you that will support you to make healthy choices. For more information about the Happy Pear cookbooks and lifestyle courses, visit https://thehappypear.ie/

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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. So today on the podcast, I've got two lovely gentlemen in front of me. I'm very excited
0:50.5	to introduce to you the quite famous duet called The Happy Pair. And I was actually
0:57.4	first aware of them when I went around to one of my friends for dinner a few years ago now.
1:01.1	And she said, oh, I've just found this most amazing cookbook. These two are just incredible.
1:05.5	So we had this lovely meal and that was it. And then I was very fortunate to be invited onto your
1:10.0	podcast a few months ago,
1:12.1	which I really enjoyed. So now you're doing me a favour by coming on to my podcast. So thanks both
1:17.5	for coming. Oh, but we're honoured. We love your work. And that was genuinely one of both of our
1:22.0	favourite conversations. Well, it made it into our best of 2021. It was like, it was one of my two picks. So there you go. That's so
1:28.7	much menopause and you had an impact on me. So thank you. That's great. But this time last
1:33.1	year, if I'd invited you on to a menopause podcast to talk, would you have accepted or what
1:38.7	would you have thought? I probably wouldn't have known what I assumed it would have been about vegetables. I'm talking about eating plant-based or whatever,
1:44.7	so I don't know. No, like, especially work from a family of four boys and went to all-boys
1:50.6	school, so it really wasn't a conversation, anything to do with female anatomy beyond the sexual
1:56.0	function, we knew nothing about. So, you know, highly ignorant, even with our mother, you know,
2:00.7	we used to kind of, as she our mother, you know, we used to
2:01.2	kind of, as she struggled through, we didn't know how to support her. And I think it's just
2:05.0	a reflection on society at large. So for us, I think your work and the sense of society
2:10.4	gathering around women more is just so important. Absolutely. So for some of you who don't know
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