BeFUSED - Myrna Selzler_ BABz - Doctor Certified Healthier for You - Part 2

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded.

Known as “The Food Professor”, he is co-host of one of Canada’s top-ranked podcast in management called The Food Professor. His current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. He has authored six books on global food systems. He has also published over 1,000 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic and professional publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.

Here are our Key Learning Objectives for this episode:

1.) Discover the latest insights from a world-renowned food distribution and policy specialist

2.) Hear how we can make informed decisions about the foods we eat daily

3.) Gain an understanding of sustainable and cost-effective food systems

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition. He earned his BA at Dartmouth College ; his MD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ; and his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the Yale University School of Public Health. 

Today on the BeFUSED Podcast Dr Anthony Marotta and I will be interviewing Chef Robert E. Graham, MD, MPH a Harvard-trained researcher and physician that is helping people stay healthy with food.

In this episode of the BeFUSED podcast Dr. Anthony Marotta and I are interviewing Kae Woodland.  Kae is the founder and President of LifeStyle for Life a company that is creating foods that are good for you and awaken your passion for food.

In this episode of BeFused, Dr. Anthony Marotta and I are interviewing Jens Schuster the Founder of BreadyMix.  BreadyMix has a vision that is focused on getting you to be able to make the healthiest breads yourself.  

Part 2 with BABz - This week on the BeFUSED podcast I am on with Dr. Anthony Marotta and Myrna Selzler the Catalyst at BABz.  BABz is an international leader in the plant-rich nutritious, easy-to-prepare, shelf-stable food products. With “labels you can read” and “ingredients you can trust”, the BABz Brand is  recognized in the seeds and grain category as a top shelf product!

This week on the BeFUSED podcast I am on with Dr. Anthony Marotta and Myrna Selzler the Catalyst at BABz.  BABz is an international leader in the plant-rich nutritious, easy-to-prepare, shelf-stable food products. With “labels you can read” and “ingredients you can trust”, the BABz Brand is  recognized in the seeds and grain category as a top shelf product!

In this episode Dr. Anthony Marotta returns to discuss Peqish Foods and why he started the company.  

The questions we covered are below: 

1. How did the idea of Peqish come to life?
2. What are the key differentiating points? 
3. What’s the role of Health and Wellness Advisory Board have? 
4. What aspects do you consider when developing a new product/recipe?
5. What are your sourcing practices, what are the challenges when sourcing a product, how do you evaluate a product when sourcing?
6. Chemicals in food that may not be so obvious to consumers
7. Common health issues associated with diets and the difference Peqish products make 
8. Associations between food and disease
9. The increase of NCDs (Non Communicable Diseases) and Peqish

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Arun Garg and we talk about simple strategies to healthy eating.  More specifically we talk about: 

• When we eat
• What we eat 
• How you eat

In this episode we explore the importance of diet, gut microbiome and the disease nexus.