Creating Change in Public Health

June 29, 2017

Sam Feltham has been in the health and fitness industry for over a decade. He started out as a party coordinator at a sports centre and worked his way up to study at the European Institute of Fitness and qualified as a Master Personal Trainer. After 5 years of running a fitness boot camp business and a successful podcast called Smash The Fat, Sam decided to move away from that business in order to fully focus on improving public health by setting up and directing the Public Health Collaboration.

In the UK, 25% of adults are obese and type 2 diabetes has risen by 65% in 10 years, both cost the NHS £16 billion a year. The Public Health Collaboration is a charity dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health. The PHC seeks to avert the crisis by informing healthcare professionals and the public with evidence-based reports and implementing initiatives.

Here’s the outline of this interview with Sam Feltham:

[00:00:00] Article: The Tea That Mimics the Effects of Exercise. TL;DR hormetea.com

[00:00:14] Presentation: Low Carb Breckenridge 2017: Creating Change in Public Health by Sam Feltham.

[00:02:57] The European Institute of Fitness.

[00:04:14] Book: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes.

[00:04:29] Blogs: Mark Sisson and Robb Wolf.

[00:05:01] Smash The Fat Podcast and YouTube channel.

[00:05:59] Public Health Collaboration Crowdfunding.

[00:06:28] Report: Healthy Eating Guidelines & Weight Loss Advice For The United Kingdom.

[00:06:38] Public Health England’s response to Public Health Collaboration’s report: Eat Fat, Cut the Carbs and Avoid Snacking To Reverse Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

[00:07:26] Obesity in the UK is at 25% and has been steadily increasing.

[00:07:51] In the UK, 6% of the population has type 2 diabetes and 35% have pre-diabetes costing the UK $10 billion annually.

[00:09:17] Sam's overfeeding experiment.

[00:11:09] Harris-Benedict Equation.

[00:14:33] Sleep apnoea and asthma.

[00:15:58] Bloodwork and BOD POD.

[00:17:18] Different types of fat deposition: subcutaneous vs visceral.

[00:19:16] Vegan arm of the experiment.

[00:22:09] Type 1 Diabetes.

[00:26:02] The 57 randomised controlled trials on the Public Health Collaboration website.

[00:27:44] Interview: Professor Richard Feinman.

[00:32:36] NHS spends $3 billion looking after smokers while the tax is $7 billion.

[00:34:42] Healthy Eating Guidelines mp3 and PDF.

[00:37:07] Real Food Lifestyle.

[00:38:38] Real Food Lifestyle for Weight Loss.

[00:40:24] Report: Eat Fat, Cut the Carbs and Avoid Snacking to Reverse Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

[00:41:22] Website: Public Health Collaboration.

[00:42:32] PHC’s Advisory Board members include Dr Aseem Malhotra, Dr Tamsin Lewis, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Dr David Unwin and others.  

[00:43:21] Presentation: Low Carb Breckenridge 2017: The Glycaemic Index: Helping Patients in Primary Care with T2D by Dr David Unwin.

[00:44:43] Public Health Collaboration Annual Conference 2017.

[00:45:08] Real Food Lifestyle General Practitioner map.