Listen to episode 50:
"You can heal yourself with food": Vikki

December 26, 2022

Vikki Jones is a former competitive athlete. She moved from the UK to the US in the 1980s and excelled in the pentathlon. She had a coach for every sport she did, as well as being supported by the US Olympic Committee.

In this episode, Vikki tells how as an athlete, she wasn't taught how to eat. Because she was so active, she would pick herself up with sugar to get quick energy. She would "carb load" before any sporting event.

When she retired from professional sports, she realized that her education in nutrition was missing, so she started to study it. In her Master's degree in human nutrition in the 90s, she was taught that fat is bad and that artificial sweeteners were better than sugar.

Only years later did Vikki read more about fats and sugars. She tells about how her own education evolved, how she started questioning what she was taught, and how she is able to help others now.

She has come to the conclusion that food is medicine, because we all need good nutrition, not just as professional athletes. Vikki also tells about her experience with long Covid, from which she still suffers today, but how looking after her own nutrition and keeping sugar to a minimum has helped her.

Here's where to find Vikki: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondFitness.VikkiArmstrong