Speaking on Series 2, Episode 1 of 色狗导航’s Experts in Health podcast, Gregg also talks about his varied career journey from greengrocer to media personality and his thoughts on the viral music sensation ‘buttery biscuit base’.
Hosted by Dr Chris McLeod (School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences), the much anticipated eight-part series once again features some of the most coveted guests across the UK.
With new episodes set to be released weekly, the podcast continues to tackle wide-ranging issues and conversational points across the health sector.
A preview of all episodes can be found below:
Episode 1
Gregg Wallace MBE: how he lost 5 stone and kept it off
TV’s Gregg Wallace talks about his career journey from greengrocer to TV personality to weight loss adviser. Gregg shares how he lost 5 stone and kept it off, as well as his thoughts on the viral track ‘buttery biscuit base’.
Episode 2
Dr Hibbah Osei-Kwasi: A change is needed: how to support healthy eating in UK-based migrants and ethnic minorities
Dr Hibbah Osei-Kwasi talks about how a different approach is needed to support healthy eating for UK-based ethnic minorities and how migration presents unique challenges to promoting healthy diets.
Episode 3
Lavina Mehta MBE: how exercise ‘snacking’ took her from Watford to Windsor Castle
Health entrepreneur Lavina Mehta MBE talks about how a career change, short-bursts of physical activity and exercising for sanity not vanity took her from a corporate career to being a national ambassador for health and fitness.
Episode 4
Dr Edward Hartley: What’s really going on in the NHS and how to solve the problems
NHS Clinical Director Dr Edward Hartley shares his decades of experience working in the NHS, how its funding, structures and patients have changed over time, where the real problems lie, and how we solve them.
Episode 5
Dr Duncan Robertson: Public health messaging and communication: what we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
Independent SAGE expert Dr Duncan Robertson shares his experience during the pandemic of providing independent advice about how to best communicate about health and science to the public, what we learned, and how we can do better in a future pandemic.
Episode 6
Dr Kajal Gokal: If you take one thing away it’s this: exercise is really important before, during and after cancer treatment
Dr Kajal Gokal talks about 20 years of evidence showing that physical activity before, during and after cancer treatment is important for health, that rest typically isn’t best, and how we can get this message out to more people.
Episode 7
Dr James King: The science behind obesity
Dr James King talks about how obesity develops, how exercise and diet help to fight against health difficulties not just weight loss, and how drugs might be the answer to the obesity epidemic.
Episode 8
Professor Lauren Sherar: Reimagining school lessons to make children more active
Professor Lauren Sherar talks about how children are less active now than ever before and how a whole-school approach is needed – even in lessons like maths and science – to reimagine the school day to get children more physically active.