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Dr. Darragh Ennis

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Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

you know, if you're working in a healthcare environment, you're probably very carefully washing your hands for a minute or two minutes at a time, maybe 20 times a day.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

you know, if you're working in a healthcare environment, you're probably very carefully washing your hands for a minute or two minutes at a time, maybe 20 times a day.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

you know, if you're working in a healthcare environment, you're probably very carefully washing your hands for a minute or two minutes at a time, maybe 20 times a day.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

That's a very large reason why we get sick is because we pick up things or we shake hands with someone or we touch the door handle and then we rub our eyes or, you know, we pick something out of our teeth and it gets into our body and it escapes. But yeah, there's a little bit of a boosted immune system to it, but some of it's just good practice.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

That's a very large reason why we get sick is because we pick up things or we shake hands with someone or we touch the door handle and then we rub our eyes or, you know, we pick something out of our teeth and it gets into our body and it escapes. But yeah, there's a little bit of a boosted immune system to it, but some of it's just good practice.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

That's a very large reason why we get sick is because we pick up things or we shake hands with someone or we touch the door handle and then we rub our eyes or, you know, we pick something out of our teeth and it gets into our body and it escapes. But yeah, there's a little bit of a boosted immune system to it, but some of it's just good practice.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

I think one thing that a lot of people get wrong is nutrition. There is so much commercial pressure from companies who are trying to sell what are considered healthy food. And a lot of people don't understand the genuine need for a healthy diet to keep yourself healthy.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

I think one thing that a lot of people get wrong is nutrition. There is so much commercial pressure from companies who are trying to sell what are considered healthy food. And a lot of people don't understand the genuine need for a healthy diet to keep yourself healthy.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

I think one thing that a lot of people get wrong is nutrition. There is so much commercial pressure from companies who are trying to sell what are considered healthy food. And a lot of people don't understand the genuine need for a healthy diet to keep yourself healthy.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

And they don't understand that a lot of the things, the supplements they're being sold or the miracle food thing, a lot of it is nonsense or it's marginal at best. So you have people who will take some miracle powdered seaweed supplement, but then will eat nothing but fast food. And they're wondering why they're not doing well.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

And they don't understand that a lot of the things, the supplements they're being sold or the miracle food thing, a lot of it is nonsense or it's marginal at best. So you have people who will take some miracle powdered seaweed supplement, but then will eat nothing but fast food. And they're wondering why they're not doing well.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

And they don't understand that a lot of the things, the supplements they're being sold or the miracle food thing, a lot of it is nonsense or it's marginal at best. So you have people who will take some miracle powdered seaweed supplement, but then will eat nothing but fast food. And they're wondering why they're not doing well.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

The overriding dietary advice since probably first century is to eat a wide, varied, balanced diet that's largely based on fruit and vegetables, fresh fruit and vegetables. And I don't know if they did it in the US, but in the UK and Ireland, they said five portions a day. That's what they said. If you have five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day, that's a good start.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

The overriding dietary advice since probably first century is to eat a wide, varied, balanced diet that's largely based on fruit and vegetables, fresh fruit and vegetables. And I don't know if they did it in the US, but in the UK and Ireland, they said five portions a day. That's what they said. If you have five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day, that's a good start.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

The overriding dietary advice since probably first century is to eat a wide, varied, balanced diet that's largely based on fruit and vegetables, fresh fruit and vegetables. And I don't know if they did it in the US, but in the UK and Ireland, they said five portions a day. That's what they said. If you have five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day, that's a good start.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

It was actually meant to be ten. But they realized if they told people they had to eat 10 different fruits and vegetables a day, they would just say, no, we're just going to give up. So five is kind of the bare minimum. And almost nobody eats five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day. Yeah, nobody does. Who does? Yeah, nobody does.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

It was actually meant to be ten. But they realized if they told people they had to eat 10 different fruits and vegetables a day, they would just say, no, we're just going to give up. So five is kind of the bare minimum. And almost nobody eats five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day. Yeah, nobody does. Who does? Yeah, nobody does.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

It was actually meant to be ten. But they realized if they told people they had to eat 10 different fruits and vegetables a day, they would just say, no, we're just going to give up. So five is kind of the bare minimum. And almost nobody eats five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day. Yeah, nobody does. Who does? Yeah, nobody does.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

But if you really genuinely want to have a healthy diet, it's eat almost no processed food. And almost everything is processed food, which is a big problem. But base it on fresh fruit and veg and cook things yourself from scratch where possible. But that's not achievable in the modern world, unfortunately. So, you know, I wish there was some fun way of saying a healthy diet.

Something You Should Know
Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive

But if you really genuinely want to have a healthy diet, it's eat almost no processed food. And almost everything is processed food, which is a big problem. But base it on fresh fruit and veg and cook things yourself from scratch where possible. But that's not achievable in the modern world, unfortunately. So, you know, I wish there was some fun way of saying a healthy diet.