EP 50: Back to Basics: What is Food?
In celebration of Eat for Life’s 50th episode, I’m exploring food.
What role does your relationship with food play in your life? Do you see it as good, bad, or neutral? Do you eat to live or live to eat?
Is food merely a means to an end or could it have a deeper significance than what the mainstream narrative tells us?
And what really is food, anyway?
How have we gotten so far away from the most basic definition of what food is, to an industrialized food supply that is making us sicker? Our food can lead to disorders like OCD and ADD. Learn more on the site.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
- How industrialization has impacted our food supply and led to nutrient-deficient foods
- The evolution of beauty ideals and their impact on how and why we eat today
- The long history of the diet industry
- Why we need to learn to listen to our bodies for how food makes us feel
Resources
- The opioid effects of gluten exorphins: asymptomatic celiac disease – PMC
- The diet–heart hypothesis: a critique – ScienceDirect
- Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999
- Enhancement of dwarf wheat germplasm with high-yield potential derived from induced mutagenesis | Plant Genetic Resources | Cambridge Core
- 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP): A Weight Loss Agent with Significant Acute Toxicity and Risk of Death – PMC
- Dietotherapy, Vol. 3: Nutrition and Diet in Disease
- How Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick – Chris Kresser
- How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet – The Atlantic
- Research | The Detox Project
- The Art of Living Long
- The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
- Eat for Life Ep 37: The Truth About Gluten-Free Diets Part 1: Grainflammation with Dr. Peter Osborne
- Eat for Life Ep 31: Why Anti-Diet Culture is Harmful with Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, FNLP