Blasphemous Nutrition

Is your workplace making achieving your health goals impossible? In this episode, Aimee and guest Jamie Walker discuss how to begin setting healthy work boundaries, address the common issue of feeling stretched thin in the workplace and the unrealistic demands placed on employees. Jamie provides insights on how individuals can reclaim their autonomy and prioritize self-care without jeopardizing th...

Episode Summary: In today's episode of Blasphemous nutrition, Health Coach Carolyn shares her personal journey towards becoming an advocate for walking as a powerful tool for improving health. Raised by a health-conscious mother, Carolyn initially rebelled against her upbringing and believed that her health was not affected by her lifestyle choices. However, after being diagnosed with IBS and...

It is not too late to give up on your weight loss and health goals!  In today's episode, Aimee discusses the concept of resurrecting goals that may have been abandoned between January and now. She emphasizes the importance of mindset and overcoming perfectionism to make progress. Aimee shares a client's struggle to lower blood sugar and lose weight to illustrate the process of revisiting...

Episode Summary: Do you feel confused and mislead by all the information out there that claims to be backed by research but falls flat? In this episode, our irreverent host Aimee interviews Victoria LaFont to discuss the challenges of navigating biased content in the health and wellness industry. Victoria shares her journey of becoming more aware of her own biases and offers tips for listeners to...

Episode Summary: In this episode of Blasphemous Nutrition, host Aimee delves into the topic of scientific literacy and the challenges of trusting scientific research. She highlights three primary problems with research: publication bias, lack of validation, and the manipulation of statistics for marketability. Aimee discusses the limitations of observational studies and the importance of distingui...

Episode Summary: In this episode of Blasphemous Nutrition, Aimee shares two key questions that can simplify meals and improve overall health. She emphasizes the importance of protein and produce as the foundation of nutrition, based on her 30 years of study and two decades in practice. Aimee discusses the impact of protein on weight management, blood sugar stability, and satiety and highlights the...

Episode Summary: Does Niacin really increase your risk of a heart attack? In this episode, Aimee goes all out breaking apart the recent study on niacin and heart attack risk. She critiques the study's methodology and highlights the misleading conclusions drawn by the authors. She emphasizes the importance of considering the study population, which consisted of individuals with existing cardio...

About Today's Guest: Marty Kendall is an engineer revolutionizing nutrition using a data-driven, nutrient-first approach. His interest in nutrition began over twenty years ago to help his wife Monica gain control of her Type 1 Diabetes.  Since then, he’s developed a systematized approach to nutrition that has helped thousands of people lose weight, reverse insulin resistance, and reclaim thei...

About Today's Guest: Marty Kendall is an engineer revolutionizing nutrition using a data-driven, nutrient-first approach. His interest in nutrition began over twenty years ago to help his wife Monica gain control of her Type 1 Diabetes.  Since then, he’s developed a systematized approach to nutrition that has helped thousands of people lose weight, reverse insulin resistance, and reclaim thei...

Episode Summary: In this episode, Aimee dives deep into the complexity of nutrition and explains why simply being told what to eat is not enough. She explores the various factors that impact our ability to implement diet and lifestyle changes, including our environment, work-life balance, and genetic variations. Aimee emphasizes the importance of incremental changes and addresses the challenges of...

Episode Summary: In this episode of "Blasphemous Nutrition," Aimee shares the three most important questions to ask yourself before considering weight loss medications and other lifestyle medications prescribed for chronic disease caused by lifestyle factors. Aimee also provides clinical insights into the use of GLP one receptor agonists, a popular class of weight loss medications, and t...

In this episode of Blasphemous Nutrition, host Aimee delves into the some of the myths and misinterpretations of a plant based diet. Drawing from her own experience as a former vegetarian and her extensive knowledge in the field of nutrition, Aimee explores the pros and cons of adopting a meatless diet. She discusses the ethical considerations of veganism, the potential health benefits, and the en...

Episode Summary: In this episode of "Blasphemous Nutrition," Aimee discusses the importance of creating external frameworks to achieve health goals, emphasizing that successful goal achievement is not willpower, but skill power. She shares strategies she and her clients have successfully used as well as principles from the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear to guide listeners...

In the next two episode of Blasphemous Nutrition, Aimee explores the art and science of building habits that last.  Drawing from positive psychology and the book "Atomic Habits," Aimee shares strategies for cultivating a mindset of success, including acknowledging grit, practicing gratitude, and finding meaning in our goals in the first of this two-part series. She shares how she utilize...

9 January 2023 Blasphemous Nutrition  A Rebel's Recipe for Embracing the Crawl – The Case for Slow Weight Loss About The Host: Aimee is the host of Blasphemous Nutrition and a double degreed nutritionist with 20 years of experience. She is passionate about providing a more nuanced and realistic approach to living and eating well and that passion sometimes comes out in salty talk. Summary: In...

 Hey there, rebellious minds and freethinkers! Welcome to Blasphemous Nutrition, the podcast where we debunk diet dogma, shattered nutrition, myths, and serve up a heaping side of salty sauce with our science.  I'm your unapologetically candid host, Aimee, and I'm diving headfirst into the world of nutrition with a sprinkle of wit a dash of sarcasm and a well honed blade of critical thin...