25 Aug 2024

Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition

From Sunday Morning, 11:45 am on 25 August 2024
01 July 2020, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: Winter barley is ripe for harvest in a field belonging to farmer Matthias Mehl near Nieder-Erlenbach. The grain harvest has begun in Hesse. According to the Hessian Farmers' Association, the drought in the spring months is already showing its effects on yields. The rainfall of the past weeks came too late for the now threshed winter barley. Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa (Photo by ARNE DEDERT / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: ARNE DEDERT

Dr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition is back with us on Sunday Morning.

This time she digs into claims that a type of fibre could have weight loss properties like that of Ozempic.

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