Yes, it’s our Friday ep and we’re chatting through the hottest topics in the health and wellness world this week. Joining host Felicity Harley is Healthy-ish producer Tabby Wilson. This week, they chatted about two foods you should never eat (see story here); mouth taping (see story here) and the best sleeping position (see story here).
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Thank you for tuning in too, the Body and Soul podcast God Healthy Shink today. If this is your first time listening, I am Felicity Harley and as this episode drops on a Friday, we are chatting through three of the hottest topics, well the ones we think are hot in the health and wellness world this week. And joining me in the studio is our fantastic producer, Tabby Wilson. Tabby, welcome back to healthy Ish.
Thank you. I'm excited to be behind the microphone again. I think I've managed three weeks in a row. Yes you have. Nice to have you back again. How has your week been, Healthish healthy Ish? I think I spent For those who live in Sydney, we just had the most glorious long weekend of sunshine and I feel like that has been my big health tick of the week. So I spent the whole weekend outside in the ocean, like what could be better? That is that is just healthy, not the issue. No, quite a few hot chips that actually their way into my body. Yeah, I loved the weather, but it's not good for my half marathon no training, which is coming up this Sunday. I'm feeling very underprepared. Are you nervous? I'm not nervous.
I think I'm just I'm just working on my mindset telling myself that I can do it, because yeah, just going. I haven't run twenty one ks ever in my whole life. Yeah, I've only run about sixteen. I think it was sixteen and a half seventeen, So yeah, I'm a bit nervous.
I did obviously. You know that I've been trying to run, and when I'm trying, you have been running. When I did a ten k earlier this year, I was the same. I'd never run a ten k before and I'm not really an affirmations person, but as I hit that eight k mark, I really did kind of lean into the you can do this like that kind of mindset. And I've often used the Keep It Cleaner running program, and with that program, you have Laura Staff in your ear kind of saying you can do this like you're a runner. And I really felt those coming back to me and I think it helped.
Oh one hundred percent. I run with the Nike app, but I have a coach in my ear with the same with the same thing. You can do this yet, like for me. The thing between finishing this race and not finishing this race is inside my head and what I tell myself. And I am an affirmations person, and I'm going to pick three affirmations to repeat to myself all of the time.
You have to tell you after they are I will, I will. I haven't actually picked them yet, but I'm just worshing excited. Okay, I think you're going to do it. I think you're going to have a really good time as well. Although it's about the time.
And perhaps the most exciting thing is just running to the MCG. As you know and some listeners know, I am very wrapped up in AFL and my husband has been that MCG many times. So for me to run through and just prove to my.
Kids that it's not just all about AFL and him playing Grand Finals, it's about me running. They'll be in the stands. That's what's keeping me through. That might be my affirmation. Anyway.
Let me share with you, well, one of the chart topping stories on Body and Soul online this week, it was about two foods that we should not be eating.
M okay, any guesses well other than the process sugar kind of.
Oh yes, yes, So the story is based on a Harvard chan School of Public Health study published in the Lancet, and basically, the researchers tracked the ultra process food intake of more than two hundred thousand health professionals and then they followed up with them for about three decades to see if they developed.
Heart disease or stroke.
I know, I love how Harvard does these studies over long periods of time. Now, the researchers basically div it out upf so process foods into ten groups, covering things like packaged sweet snacks and desserts, ready to eat meals, and.
Sugar sweetened drinks.
And basically the findings were the two main groups of foods that are damaging to our health that well can lead to heart disease and stroke are process meats.
And sugary drinks. So these were the absolute worst to consume. M and sugar drinks are easy to kind of fall into us, particularly when you're training for something like a half because you fall into that sports drink chap and sometimes you pass on the back of the name of any names, yes, maybe blue he looked on the back, and you think anyway, interesting though, though the researchers determined that not all ultra processed foods are bad technically, so savory snacks, cold series, and yogurt based desserts were associated with lower heart disease risk in this particular study, like a sugary yogurt. Well maybe more a Greek yogat than a sugar Yogurt's that was only one caveat to the study. Actually there were, they just had no background as to what type of foods and where they came from. Okay, but still a good reminder to maybe steer clear of the process mates and the sugar. Jowey, I think I always need a reminder, particularly on the sugar. Yes, we all do, Tabby, what caught your attention this week? So I started looking into mouth taping this week, and I know that you know what mouth taping is, but it was new to me. I am not proud to admit, but I'm comfortable with admitting I am a mouth breather, and mouth taping is all about changing that, because so mouth breathing when you sleep, right, I think I'm at normal all the time, but definitely while I sleep. I'm not one of those people who can't sleep when they have a cold because for me, it doesn't really affect my sleep. But there is some research that kind of suggests that breathing through your nose overnight is healthier because when you inhale through your mouth, that bacteria, those allergens, and kind of I hate to use the word debris, but you know, like dust and things come straight into your body, whereas your nose is more of a filter. So that's just one of a couple of reasons to kind of encourage nose breathing and breathing through your mouth obviously can try it out. It's puts you at higher risk of sleep appenar, which we've talked about on the podcast before. There's also there are some studies that kind of link poor sleep to weight gain as well. And so basically, in a very roundabout way, we will come back to mouth taping could improve your sleep quality, which again we've talked about a lot on Healthy which you do what that is? I want to but I can't think of a tape that would be good. Well, I think they make a lot because it's it's.
Kind of a trending new health hack. There are plenty of companies out there that are making I.
Think I do want to try it. I'm just genuinely a bit worried that because I breathe through my mouth so much that I'll actually struggle to breathe. Well, you could give it, I definitely want to. You would rip it off, right, evolutionary evolution would. I am very move a lot in my sleep, so I wouldn't be surprised. I think it's just I'm interested to try it, and I'm trying to kind of lean into the world of breath work anyway at the moment, So I think I'm interested in regards to that. As we know, some people run with their mouth taped. I remember you interviewing Rory Warnock. Yes, yeah, Rory, and the photo of him crossing the finish line tape clothes and he was doing a half I think it was a long run. He does. Oh, he does ultras. He's shout out to Rory. He's awesome. Friend of the pod. Wish we should getting back.
Actually, hey, I need to reco as I'm a big book fan, I need to recommend a book to you. You need to read a book called Breath by James Nesta, which is all about breathing.
Amazing.
Okay, yep, it's a New York Times bestseller, awesome book, and it will give you lots of insights into caps how you can well breathe better?
Is that what we want? I know? More efficiently, let's lean into breathing. Hey.
Well, this is quite apt actually, because one of the most click stories of the week was about the best position for sleep?
Ah okay, which what position do you sleep in? Tabby? Like I said, I move a lot in my sleep, so I actually wake up in all sorts of positions. I wouldn't say I have a set one, but I do always fall asleep on my back. Well.
Interestingly, the top preference for around sixty percent of adults is actually side sleeping, and this is believed to be more beneficial overall for better spine alignment, reducing snoring, and a lower risk of heartburn and back pain. But the experts we interviewed for this story did say for most people, the best sleep position boils down to the one we feel most comfortable in.
I love that research. Amen, Thank you experts, Tabby. Well, we'll see you soon. We'll see you on the other side of that half marathon. I've got to be cheering you on.
Thank you, And yes, my friends, If you do want to read about any of the above, I will leave a link in the show notes. If you do have a topic for us to chat about, dm me at Felicity Harley. Across social media you can jump online Body, Insoul, dot com, dot you, but of course you can follow us on social media at Body and Soul as well. Grab our print edition which is out in your local Sunday paper. Thanks again for listening and stay healthy.