Nutrition Bites
A no-nonsense series where you get the truth about food so you can eat what you want, and be healthy. Hosted by nutritional scientist Maggie, each episode dissects a contentious health topic with humour, relatability, and straight up facts.
Episodes
50 episodes
Hot Topic: Are Spicy Foods Healthy?
Other than a sense of adventure and entertainment, one key reason why people eat spicy food is the common belief that it’s good for you! Folklore has it that eating spicy food can cure colds, boost your metabolism and even induce birth when a w...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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14:27
Navigating Nutrition On A Budget
Over the past year many people have felt the weight of their food bill. With an inflation and recession double whammy, food prices have increased at astronomical rates. From produce to cooking oil to bread and meat nearly every category of food...
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Season 2
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Episode 49
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14:29
Snacking And Its Bad Reputation
Whether it’s on-the-go, during a work break, or late at night to accompany a TV show, snacking is a shared human experience. But in the past few decades snacking has transformed into something we do wherever and whenever. And with our lives bec...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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14:34
Vegetarian vs. Plant-based: Which Is Healthier?
Eating plant-based is no longer a trend, it’s an established lifestyle. This vegetarian diet for non-committal folks is centred around plants with the occasional inclusion of meat. But there are no hard and fast rules. And by and...
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Season 2
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Episode 47
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15:20
Is Organic Food Healthier For Us?
Everyone’s motivations for buying organic differs, but one of the most commonly listed reasons is that it is healthier for you. Now organic farming was first and foremost developed to protect the environment, but could these old-school...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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16:01
Can Hair Supplements Cure Balding?
Having a full head of hair is a societal expectation - at least that’s what the media tells us. Apart from George Costanze in Seinfeld, you don’t see many balding characters, actors, or singers. But hair loss and thinning are clinical con...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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15:31
Artificial Sweeteners & Sugar Substitutes: Sweet or Scary?
Sugar substitutes, which include artificial sweeteners, are substances that provide a sweet taste while contributing few or no calories. They are primarily used as an additive in packaged foods and beverages, like Diet Coke or sugar-free gum. T...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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18:24
Coffee & Tea: Healthy or Harmful?
Do you start every morning with a mug of coffee or tea? If so, welcome to the billion-member morning brew club! Drinking coffee and/or tea has been a standard ritual for thousands of years, but for such a popular, and historic drink, not many p...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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15:29
DNA-based Diets: Are We There Yet?
If you’ve ever been frustrated at the mismatch between the way you eat, and how you look on the outside, or feel on the inside, you’ve likely blamed the scapegoat of human variability - genetics. While you can adapt your lifestyle and mod...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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15:45
The Clean Eating Cult
Our modern way of eating certainly necessitates criticism. But the once harmless suggestion of "eating clean" has now been tarnished thanks to a takeover by food-shaming influencers. In the clean eating world the rules of what’s good and bad ar...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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16:58
The Great Nutrition Debate: Ultra-processed Foods
Industrial processing has long helped to improve the shelf-life and stability of food, allowing it to be consumed out of season, and stored without a refrigerator. It's also been used to enhance taste and texture and create magical sensory expe...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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18:12
How To Beat Bloat
Every summer the search term “bloat” peaks on Google - with good reason. The hot weather uniform of a little less clothing and a little more skin often invokes a sense of self-consciousness about our stomachs. While the infamous food baby is a ...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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15:25
Is Vitamin D The Miracle Micronutrient?
Vitamin D is one of those odd nutrients in the sense that we don't really consume it via food. Instead, we make it on our own from exposure to UV rays. This so-called sunshine vitamin is vital to build and maintain strong bone...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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17:05
Investigating ProLon: The Fasting Diet That Promotes Healthier Aging
Branded as the “fasting plan that lets you eat”, ProLon is a 5-day subscription dietary program that is designed to support healthy aging. Compared to more traditional fasting regimes where one goes many hours without food, ProLon allows you to...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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17:51
Should You Take Part In The Collagen Craze?
Supplement trends are a dime a dozen these days, and the latest powder to make a name for itself promises youthful skin, injury recovery, and better bones. Collagen is a special protein, in fact, it is the most abundant protein in our ...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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14:37
All You Need To Know About Prebiotics & Probiotics
Despite its reputation as a goopy and gross place, our gut hosts an incredibly complex world of microorganisms. With such a big influence on how we feel, trying to create a healthy digestive tract is a goal for many. Two ways to en...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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15:27
Why We Need To Eat More Bugs
Insects are a great source of sustainable protein that have the potential to feed the world en masse, at a cheap price, and with a small environmental footprint. While two billion people regularly consume insects today, many people in Western c...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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15:34
Are Athletic Greens Too Good To Be True?
Athletic Greens is an incredibly popular supplement backed by celebrities and investment bankers. This green-coloured powder, which is added to water for a morning beverage, is packed with 75 different vitamins, minerals, powdered fruits and ve...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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17:04
What's The Deal With Noom?
According to their LinkedIn, Noom is the world’s leading behaviour change company, disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries by combining artificial intelligence, mobile tech, and psychology to help people adopt long-term habits.
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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17:02
How Did The Pandemic Change The Way We Eat?
The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were marked by a lot of memorable moments, including many that had to do with food. From bare grocery store shelves to shuttered restaurants to the sourdough craze, our relationship with eating drasticall...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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13:25
Can You Boost Your Mood With Food?
One in four North Americans will suffer from a diagnosed mental disorder in their lifetime, and with temporary conditions like seasonal affective disorder rearing its head these days, it's no wonder people are in search of a mood boost. K...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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16:27
Gluten Free Grains: Your Questions Answered
If you search the term “gluten-free” on Google you'll get results like “is gluten-free still trending?”, “why is everything gluten-free now?” and “are gluten-free products bad for you?" It’s been over a decade since gluten became a hot health t...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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17:17
Nutrition and COVID-19 - Can We Boost Our Immunity?
In the early days of the pandemic sales of dietary supplements skyrocketed - in part driven by a perception that these pills and capsules could protect us due to their “immune-boosting” properties. But when it comes to preventing, or managing, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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16:25
How To Kick Off A Nutritious New Year
A new year is upon us and whether you intend to make a resolution or not, it’s likely that at some point throughout 022 you’re going to have a moment where you want to change your eating habits. The problem is, often when we set ...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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16:21
Q&A: Fresh vs Frozen, Mercury Poison & Oil To Be Chosen
In the second Q&A episode of Nutrition Bites I am tackling three commonly asked questions: 1) Is fresh fruit better than frozen? 2) Should you be worried about mercury poisoning from fish? 3) Which cooking oil is the healthiest?Tune...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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16:29