Busting diet myths with Dr Joshua Wolrich

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt bombarded by the information on the internet about heath and wellness? Today on the podcast - we’re speaking to a man who can clear everything up for us.

Dr Joshua Wolrich is an NHS doctor, nutritionist and the Sunday Times bestselling author of “Food Isn’t Medicine”. When we started our body image series - we knew we had to speak to him to understand his take on the “wellness” rebrand of the 2010s - when diet culture shifted to a focus on “health”.

You can go back to Monday’s episode to hear more of our exploration of the wellness era - but in this episode, you’ll hear our chat with Dr Joshua in full to as he debunks the health myths that defined the wellness era - and beyond.

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Read more about Dr Joshua’s work here: https://drwolrich.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Should I Delete That?
0:04.2	When we started this series, we knew that we needed to speak to the man that you're going to hear from in today's episode.
0:10.5	Dr Joshua Woolrich is an NHS doctor and nutritionist and the Sunday Times best-selling author of Food Isn't Medicine.
0:18.5	We spoke to him as part of our exploration of the 2010s when diet culture
0:22.9	transformed itself into wellness. From cauliflower pizza to intermittent fasting, in this conversation,
0:29.7	Dr Joshua clears up some of the most pervasive myths of the wellness era and lifts the lid on
0:35.5	why diet culture had to undergo such a radical rebrand.
0:39.3	We also spoke to influencer Alice Living in this episode and it was such a good and important
0:43.6	interview that we knew we had to share hers in her entirety too. So please look out for that
0:48.6	when we publish it at the end of February. But for now, here's Dr Joshua. Enjoy.
0:57.2	Hi Josh. Welcome back to the podcast.
0:59.2	Hi. A second timer.
1:01.1	Was that?
1:02.0	You've done this before? Yeah.
1:03.3	Was this in my front room, though?
1:04.5	Are we so forgettable?
1:05.8	No, not that.
1:06.7	It was on Zoom. No, it was over Zoom.
1:08.2	Oh, yes. That would be why.
1:09.5	Yes. The Zoom, you were one of our first podcast guests, actually.
1:14.5	A few years ago.
1:15.1	Yeah.
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