This is day 5 of the Anxiety Summit. Margaret Floyd, nutritional therapist, writer, real food advocate and author of Eat Naked, is interviewed by host of the Anxiety Summit, Trudy Scott, Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.
Comfort food or sweet misery? How sugar controls your mood and how to get it out of your diet
- why sugar is so harmful to our mood, where it hides in the diet and how to get it out
- why protein is so important and why we shouldn’t be afraid of fat
- the challenges of gluten, soy, and other food toxins
- other important aspects of real whole food eating
Here is some great gems from my interview with Margaret
a little sugary treat puts your body into an emergency
historically sugar was very scarce in our diets, and so our bodies are not adapted to having lots of it
a blood sugar crash is actually as much of a state of emergency for your body as running from that wooly mammoth
I highly recommend Margaret’s books:
Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You published by New Harbinger Publications in 2011. Here is my book review of Eat Naked.
She is also the coauthor with Chef James Barry of the follow-up cookbook, The Naked Foods Cookbook: The Whole-Foods, Healthy-Fats, Gluten-Free Guide to Losing Weight and Feeling Great
Get your free gift from Margaret: Get Naked with the 10 week Dietary Program
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UPDATE: the summit concluded on Tues 6/24 – season 2 of The Anxiety Summit will be in November 2014. If you’d like to be on the notification list just sign up here www.theAnxietySummit.com
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I have enjoyed all of the speakers and am so grateful to Trudy Scott for bringing you all together. I have missed a few but am glad I took time to listen to yours today (Ms. Floyd) I hope I can follow through and set a good example for my husband and my college age daughter. We are all struggling with very low energy,some diabetes (husband)and obesity plus mood issues. Depression is pretty common in my family as well as anxiety. Thank you for the valuable information!! I feel like I have made soooo many bad choices, but tomorrow is a new day! I have had one diet cola a day for probably the last 20 years or so and am trying to switch to water (I do drink a lot that)and tea.
Hi Trudy! (there aren’t many Trudy’s out there)
This is wonderful – tomorrow is a new day. If you have problems with willpower and feeling deprived as you move way from diet soda and unhealthy choices don’t forget the amino acids (Julia talked about tryptophan and GABA) and I talked about DPA and tyrosine in my closing talk
Keep us posted….
Trudy