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Aug 2025
35m 16s

Food Trauma & Diet Myths: Healing Your R...

SUSIE BURRELL & LEANNE WARD
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Food trauma, diet soft drinks, and creatine myths — this episode explores how early experiences shape eating, new research on artificial sweeteners and diabetes risk, and whether creatine is safe for kidney health. 
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