Episode 142: Nutrition Education and Research with Jayne Bullen

Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Jayne Bullen is the Chief Operating Officer of The Noakes Foundation, the Managing Director of the Nutrition Network, and, alongside Prof. Tim Noakes, the founder of Eat Better South Africa. Jayne is an MBA, High Dip in Marketing and International Relations graduate. She began her career taking products into Africa and researching local markets in the West and East African block and later moved to the UK to read for an MBA at Leeds University, later conducting Pan European media research and strategy evaluation. She is also a Movement Medicine Teacher, a Mind Body Medicine Practitioner and a mom.

In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Jayne talk about:

• (03:16) What Jayne loves about South Africa and what Jayne would like to see change in South Africa
• (05:07) How Jayne became involved in the low-carb world
• (07:19) The purpose of the Noakes Foundation
• (12:50) The difficulties of helping poorer populations in South Africa eat better
• (18:14) The need for better funding for nutrition research and why there is so little funding for it right now
• (21:33) The nutritional damage done to families resulting from marketing of unhealthy foods targeted at young children
• (24:39) Studies sponsored by the Noakes Foundation
• (27:47) The World Nutrition Summit
• (30:56) How to spread the message of health to people of all dietary persuasions
• (34:36) What Jayne would change about the world right now if she could change it just by wishing for it

Thank you for listening to Protecting Your Nest. For additional resources and information, please see the links below.

Links:

Jayne Bullen:

• Nutrition Network
• The Noakes Foundation
• Eat Better South Africa
• Twitter

Dr. Tony Hampton:

• Linktree
• Instagram Account
• LinkedIn Account
• Ritmos Negros Podcast
• Q Med
• Symposium for Metabolic Health Lectures