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🎧 Conversations with Forbes under 30 | Wellness Experts | Business Leaders
🚀 The podcast to unlock the best version of yourself
🎙️ Hosted by Alberto Zandi – Forbes 30U30 & Times 100
🎖️ 300,000+ subscribers

07/06/2026

Most people in the wellness world treat sugar as the enemy. Sarah Ann Macklin, former model, author and registered nutritionist, takes a different view. Sugar has a place for joy. She loves chocolate and has no intention of cutting it out. Beyond that sugar is a genuine performance tool. Sports drinks are loaded with sugar because athletes running marathons need a fast glucose response. Eliminating everything that makes you happy is not a health plan. It is just misery with a good label.

07/06/2026

Kindness requires power and restraint.

06/06/2026

Most people in the wellness space drink electrolytes daily without questioning whether they need them. Sarah Ann Macklin (), author and registered nutritionist, is direct about the science. Electrolytes are full of sodium. Unless you have been sweating heavily for over an hour, run a marathon, done an intense sauna session or been through serious illness your body does not need them. Excess sodium raises blood pressure and increases heart attack risk. We already have enough salt in our diets. Adding more is not optimisation. It is a risk.

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06/06/2026

Most people grab a protein shake thinking they have fueled themselves properly. Sarah Ann Macklin, former model, author and registered nutritionist, explains what actually happens. Liquid calories bypass the signals your body uses to register fullness. You lose the fiber your gut microbiome needs to function. Fiber is the fertilizer for gut microbes. It is where your immune system is built. Your brain is not registering that you have had enough to eat. Dietary diversity is the one thing almost every nutritionist agrees on. Drinking your meals takes you further from it.

06/06/2026

Most people think the body only responds to what you actually do. Sarah Ann Macklin, author and registered nutritionist, points to Ellen Langer's chambermaid study. Two groups of chambermaids working identical physical jobs. One group was told how much energy their daily routine was already burning. After one month they showed a 10% drop in blood pressure and a reduced waist-to-hip ratio without changing anything. The other group changed nothing and nothing changed. What you tell yourself about your body changes your body.

06/06/2026

Most people make food decisions based on what is written on the front of the packet. Sarah Ann Macklin (), author and registered nutritionist, says the only label that matters is on the back. The first three ingredients are the majority of what is in that food. If you cannot describe any of them it is almost certainly ultra-processed. Marketing puts high fiber and high in B vitamins on the front because you make a decision in three seconds. The front label and what is actually good for you are often two very different things.

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05/06/2026

Most people make food decisions based on what is written on the front of the packet. Sarah Ann Macklin, author and registered nutritionist, says the only label that matters is on the back. The first three ingredients are the majority of what is in that food. If you cannot describe any of them it is almost certainly ultra-processed. Marketing puts high fiber and high in B vitamins on the front because you make a decision in three seconds. The front label and what is actually good for you are often two very different things.

05/06/2026

Most people would stop a child asking for a third chocolate bar. Not because they are mean but because they love them. Sarah Ann Macklin, former model, author and registered nutritionist, calls this the Chocolate Bar Test. We set that limit for the people we love without thinking twice. But we refuse to have the same conversation with ourselves. The boundary you would draw for your child is the one you never draw for yourself.

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