Join me for a great evening at Skeptics In The Pub on Wednesday May 20 at the Welder’s Dog Brewery 101 Beardy Street, Armidale.

Doors open at 5.30pm for orders of drinks and gourmet pizzas with the presentation starting at 7pm.

The event is free (gold coin donation appreciated) and is open to everyone. There is no need to book.

Sucked-in by Big Food and Big Wellness

Distinguished scientist exposes two massive cons

Award-wining biomedical scientist Associate Professor Gal Winter is set to smash “the politics of the plate” at this month’s Skeptics In the Pub.

Dr Winter, a leader at UNE in her speciality of nutrition, will deliver a frank and fearless presentation titled Calories and conspiracies: Trust your gut!

She will show how we are caught in a tug-of-war between two massive nutritional cons.

She said: “On one side, decades of corporate lobbying gave us the carb-heavy Food Pyramid and the myth of Calories In, Calories Out, shifting the blame for chronic disease entirely onto consumer willpower.

“On the other side, today's billion-dollar supplement industry and ‘wellness’ influencers are cashing in on our broken food system, selling us expensive powders, bio-hacks, and magic pills to fix problems that real food and sensible eating can solve.

“I will blow the whistle on the politics of the plate.

“We’ll trace the history of nutritional gaslighting - from the sugar industry secretly paying off Harvard scientists in the 1960s, to the algorithm-driven grifters flogging supplements to us today.

“I will unpack the science and look at the actual physiological reality of blood glucose and our microbiome and explore why, when faced with both Big Food and Big Wellness, your best defence is to trust no one but your gut.”

* Skeptics In The Pub is run by community-minded volunteers affiliated with Australian Skeptics Inc which promotes critical thinking, reason, logic, and the scientific method.