Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle are delighted to introduce Maria Traka, Head of Food and Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure (NBRI) at Quadram Institute. Danielle attended the Food & Nutrition NBRI Stakeholder Engagement Event earlier this year.  A key part of this stakeholder meeting was to generate discussion on how the McCance and...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to their team member Kate McCulla, Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Development Manager for Nutrition Talent. Kate passionately believes that health professionals need to invest in developing their communication and behaviour change skills. Think about how you would like to be talked to if you were discussing a behaviour...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to Professor Sue Lanham-New, Professor of Human Nutrition and Head of Nutritional Science Department at University of Surrey. Sue’s research focuses on Vitamin D – she is passionate about helping people living with osteoporosis and happily volunteers her time and expert knowledge to osteoporosis charities.  A true “Human of...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this bonus episode, Anna and Danielle reflect on their 20-year journey since graduating from the University of Surrey. Back on campus to deliver a careers workshop to current students, they discuss the nostalgia of returning and the memories it brings back. They also share advice they would give their younger selves, emphasising the importance of...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to Rebecca Tobi, Registered Nutritionist and Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation. Rebecca highlights the importance of collaboration and engagement with businesses and investors in promoting healthy and sustainable diets. If you’ve never really considered the role of investors in the food...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to Dr Liz Leigh-Firbank, a nutritionist and product developer with expertise in nutrition communications and strategy, food product development, regulatory and sensory evaluation. Currently with Lintbells, an animal nutrition company that produces products for pets, it’s fair to say that Liz’s career path from studying...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. Anna and Danielle chat to registered nutritionists, Dr Laura Wyness and Lynn Burns, about navigating perimenopause.  This has become a hot(!) topic, bringing the conversation into the public domain, while creating an explosion of supplements and products targeted at women that may not be supported by evidence – ever heard of menowashing? Laura and Lynn cut through...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle celebrate Nutrition Talent’s 6th birthday! To mark the occasion, they reflect on 6 themes that represent key areas of learning, growth and change during the past 6 years. Listen in to hear what they have to share on: The whole package and salary negotiations – The rise of remote and hybrid roles, the importance of job satisfaction...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle join in the chat with Emma Williams (Food, Nutrition & Health Consultant), Laura Wyness (Freelance Nutritionist) and Kate McCulla (Dietitian) in a (mostly!) light-hearted and Christmas themed conversation on a broad range of topics: 1.       Our Christmas tipple of choice 2.       Biggest professional achievement of...

In this episode we speak to our first international guest, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Barbara Ruhs, who joins us from Arizona, USA. Barb tells us about the fascinating and diverse phases in her career which have included working on school meals, private practice, sports nutrition and retail, not to mention a position at Harvard. We have heard time and time again from our colleagues in the field including our Humans of Nutrition podcast guests, how utterly fascinating people’s career...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball, founder of Conscious Impact and an executive with over twenty-five years’ experience in the public health sector and across food systems - spanning healthcare, academic, commercial and non-executive director roles; and as a global nutrition lead within the food industry at the Kellogg Company. Alyson...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. Look at Matt Lawson’s CV and you’ll probably see under ‘Work History’ PFA Dietitian, The Football Association; Development Football Head, University of Nottingham; Team GB Dietitian, British Olympic Association. Under ‘Skills & Experience’, you’ll find UEFA Licenced Coach. Get a chance to look in his little black book, and you may see names like Sven Goran...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. We are delighted to introduce Dr Gillian Purdon, RNutr (Public Health), Chief Nutritionist, Public Health Nutrition, Food Standards Scotland, who is charged with delivery of statutory objectives to improve and protect public health, improve diet at population level via the collection and interpretation of population level dietary intake data (“if we don’t have the...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this episode we have a brilliant in-depth conversation with Nilani Sritharan, Group Head of Healthy and Sustainable Diets at Sainsbury’s. Nilani tells us about her hugely varied role, which includes working on over 10,000 own brand products! Nilani explains the importance of data and how personalisation can lead to opportunities to help customers navigate...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this episode we hear from Markus Stripf, an insightful co-founder who built tech company, Spoon Guru, around nutrition expertise. “Our first hire was a nutritionist- there’s no point building something that’s technologically sophisticated but scientifically inaccurate”. He describes his team’s work as operating at the intersection between health and technology...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. In this episode Anna interviews co-host, Professor Danielle McCarthy, who Queen’s University Belfast recently conferred with an honorary title of Professor of Practice, in recognition of her expertise in applying nutrition science. In true Humans of Nutrition style, we focus not only on what this accolade means and how it came about, but also how it felt. Danielle...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Prof Danielle McCarthy. As we kick off series 2, and as we celebrate the ‘Humans of Nutrition’ podcast being shortlisted for the 2023 CN Award* for Nutrition Resource of the Year; we feel we can call ourselves podcasters! We reflect back on series 1, the feedback we have received from around the globe, how much we have learned from our brilliant guests, and we look forward to series 2. We...

Covid has undoubtably brought dramatic changes to the workplace, with many more of us working remotely some or all of the time. There has also been a big shift as to where in the world we can work, including the increasing trend of being a ‘digital nomad’. Our Co-Founder Anna recently had a taste of the digital nomad lifestyle during a six-week working holiday in Madeira. In this bonus episode of the Humans of Nutrition podcast, Danielle grills Anna about her experience – the pros, the cons...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Danielle shares details of her first ever experience of being front of camera in a TV shoot. An experience that absolutely changed her mind on how the media, companies and nutrition professionals can work comfortably together. There is no denying this was a ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ moment for Danielle and in this episode she is absolutely honest...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy.  In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat with Jenny Rosborough, Head of Nutrition at Jamie Oliver Limited, previously a Campaign Manager at Action on Sugar and prior to that a Senior Nutritionist and Programme Developer of MEND, a family weight management programme. A real custodian of nutrition and health, she blends being a campaigner and spokesperson who holds food...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy. Dairy, nutrition and sustainability is the topic of this episode in which Danielle and Anna are joined by Zoe Kavanagh, Chief Executive of the National Dairy Council in Ireland, a dairy farmer funded organisation. She shares a number of thought provoking insights we think our listeners will want to hear from her view that sustainability is a big opportunity for dairy...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast, Anna and Danielle chat with Cathy Capelin, Head of Health and Sustainable Diets at IGD who shares her insights on what works and doesn’t in the area of sustainable and healthy diets. IGD is a registered charity which is working to drive change that makes a tangible difference for society, business and the individual, with commercial insight and social...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle chat to Dr Sarah Berry, an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at King's College London and a Scientific Advisor for Zoe, a health science company running the largest nutrition study in the world with over 4 million participants. Sarah has led more than 30 human nutrition studies in cardio-metabolic disease...

Welcome to the Humans of Nutrition Podcast brought to you by Registered Nutritionists Anna Wheeler and Dr Danielle McCarthy. In this podcast Anna and Danielle share insights from their journey as Co-Founders of Nutrition Talent, a consultancy and recruitment company specialising in nutrition expertise. They share how it all began, the professional and personal considerations that instigated their entrepreneurial leap, where it is now and their thoughts and hopes for the future of...