Is too much nutritional advice making anxiety worse?

About this episode

Caroline Foran discusses the impact of excessive nutritional advice on anxiety with guest GQ Jordan.

On this episode I am joined by GQ Jordan to talk about nutrition. Not just the foods we should ease off when we are anxious, or eat more of to support our mental health and nervous system but the cultural noise around nutrition, all or nothing extreme advice and label-related anxiety. Is our health anxiety worsening because we have too much information? Is the information we are receiving blown out of proportion for clickbait reasons? Are we becoming more worried about our nutrition than we need to be? It's all in this episode and GQ calmly takes us right back to basics. Order yourself (or for a friend) a copy of my new book, Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety: A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm and Back to Yourself here Follow me on Instagram @CarolineForan and @OwningItPodcas t, on Tik Tok here Subscribe to my weekly Substack here (not always anxiety related, often parenting related) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/owningittheanxietypodcast . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: GQ Jordan

Topics covered

• nutrition
• anxiety
• mental health
• cultural noise

Keywords

• health anxiety
• information overload
• diet culture

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Anxiety: A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm and Back to Yourself

Books & works: Everything I Wish I'd Known, A Roadmap out of the Overwhelm and Back to Yourself, Substack

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