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Hannah Bres: Balancing Personal Well-being and the Planet through Dietary Decisions | Doing Well #67

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About 30 to 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food systems.

1. Doing Well: The Wellbeing Science Insights Podcast focuses on Hannah Bres and the link between dietary decisions, personal wellbeing, and the planet. 2. Lu Ngo hosts the episode for LMSL, and Hannah Bres appears as a dietitian, nutritionist, and environmental scientist. 3. The episode asks how people can eat for health and sustainability without treating food as a strict set of rules. 4. Hannah Bres says she grew up on a farm in southwest Western Australia with fruit trees, vegetables, eggs, chooks, and nuts. 5. She says moving to Perth for environmental science showed her that most people do not eat the way her family did. 6. Hannah describes leaving a PhD after becoming very ill and later finding out she had celiac disease. 7. She says that experience led her to dietetics because she wanted to help people make dietary changes while maintaining wellbeing. 8. Hannah says that over the last five years she began combining nutrition and environmental science because food choices affect the planet. 9. She says many friends were changing diets for environmental reasons while also starting families and balancing busy lives. 10. Hannah defines wellbeing as nutrition, physical health, mental health, social connectedness, and connection to the world around us. 11. She gives Norway as a personal example, saying four to five hours of daylight and heavy snowfall made her feel disconnected from nature. 12. Hannah says low-fat diets, Atkins, keto, and low-carbohydrate trends have made nutrition a noisy and confusing space. 13. She argues that food rules can make people feel guilty and can pull them away from listening to their bodies. 14. Hannah says cultural background matters because family meals, Christmas foods, and comfort foods carry meaning. 15. She states that about 30 to 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food systems. 16. She adds that the World Wildlife Fund counts the food system as the biggest threat to nature because of habitat loss, fish-stock depletion, fertilizer runoff, and food waste. 17. Hannah says plant-based foods can help, but she stresses that choices involve trade-offs such as greenhouse gases, water use, nutrition, and packaging. 18. She uses a Melbourne supermarket example to show that plant-based cheese can still lack calcium and protein and travel from China and Scotland before reaching Australia. 19. The conversation stays interview-based, practical, and reflective, with Lu Ngo asking follow-up questions and Hannah answering in clear examples. 20. People interested in nutrition, sustainability, and low-pressure food changes will likely get the most from it.

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