Dr. Sarah Ballantyne
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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But it's also just the bandwidth for something new.
So I think there's some big systemic change that needs to happen to make fresh and whole foods more accessible, but also accessible in terms of budget and time and energy and flavor for people.
Being able to address the lifestyle factors can really help in terms of the psychology of trying something new.
And again, I think one of the most important things that I can do as a health educator is show how much of a difference to long-term health outcomes can be made from a small change.
Because I think we get overwhelmed with the long like laundry to-do list of, well, I have to go to the gym and I have to do my mindfulness meditation practice and I have to eat all of these different foods or avoid all of these other different foods.
If I can maybe focus the attention on let's work on getting 15 more minutes of sleep.
Like sure, would two more hours be great?
Yes, but let's start with just 15 more minutes of sleep.
Let's start with a 10 minute walk around the block.
Let's start with one more serving of vegetables.
I think that we shift the conversation from something that feels impossible that we may lament the impossibility of it in the future
we shift that conversation to something where it is that first step is doable and we can make that small little bit of change and then we can iterate on that.
And then hopefully we can get to a point where healthy diet and lifestyle doesn't seem so overwhelming or out of reach and change the end of life conversation from instead of I wish I had to, I'm glad I did.
There was a study done a few years ago that showed that 42% of health outcomes were improved by color associated pigments in plant foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains, which means that green or red or
Blue and purple, orange and yellow, different colors of fruits and vegetables are improving different health conditions.
And all of the biggies, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, they were all improved by multiple pigments.
which is an argument for what I don't, I mean, I'm not the one who invented this terminology, what many people call eat the rainbow, which basically refers to eating fruits and vegetables and other plant foods that fall into five different color families.
So they're divided into red, orange and yellow, green, blue and purple and
and white and brown and the reason why they're divided that way is because the compounds that give those fruits and vegetables their distinctive color they are nutritive they are important antioxidants a lot of them are anti-inflammatory different ones have different like additional benefits to our health so the same thing that gives
a carrot, it's distinctive orange color or a spinach, it's distinctive green or radicchio, it's beautiful violet color.
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