ERS Walk & Talk Podcast
Join us on a 20-30 minute walk while we talk about health, wellness, and life in general. From the Employees Retirement System of Texas, podcast host Lacy Wolff walks and talks with her mentors, friends, experts and leaders about health and wellness.
ERS Walk & Talk Podcast
Becoming Sugar Savvy with Alexis Schminke
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Lacy Wolff
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Season 3
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Episode 8
In this episode of the ERS Walk & Talk Podcast, host Lacy sits down with Alexis Schminke, a Senior Training Specialist at DPS in the Aircraft Division, and a Certified Holistic Nutritionist with a background in chemistry and exercise physiology. They delve into key takeaways from the book "Metabolical" by Robert Lustig and discuss strategies for understanding and reducing sugar intake for improved health.
Key Points Discussed:
- What is sugar? and how it's hidden in foods.
- How sugar gets processed in the body
- How sugar is hidden in foods and why juice isn't good for us
- The NOVA food scale- what is processed food
- Strategies to eliminate some sugar from our diets
Check out our full Sugar Savvy webinar for more info or read Metabolical for yourself!