IMPROVE Your Longevity & Microbiome Health By Avoiding These Foods | Michael Pollan EP 296

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1:13how do you navigate the pleasure signals in your i guess your gut or your brain that might tell you that tells a lot of people here's a candy bar here's a cookie here's a milkshake i want to eat this now how have you trained your mind and your gut microbiome to not be tempted and want it and crave it consistently or is the craving there but you've just created standards and food rules to support yourself in minimizing those temptations. Asking yourself a set of questions, you know, am I still hungry or am I just enjoying eating? That's a big one. You know, Americans are socialized. I mean, think about what your mom said to you.

1:55She said, are you full when she fed you, right? She didn't say, are you satisfied? That's the right question. Or are you no longer hungry? Because the moment you're no longer hungry is many bites before you're full. Right. You should stop eating. Exactly. And so I often will ask myself, so am I still hungry or am I just eating because there's more on the plate? And then I enjoy the process. In Japan, they say harahachibu, which means eat until you're 80 % full. That's interesting. And in the Arab world, they say you should eat until you're three quarters full. In France, parents don't say to kids, are you full?

2:35They say, do you still have hunger? And so it's a different way of socializing appetite. So the goal is satisfaction. It's not making yourself full. How do we get to satisfaction when people have been training and conditioning themselves for decades to eat the past? Yes, we are up a powerful industry. I mean, I can't overestimate how important food marketing is. I mean, the industry spends like$40 billion getting us to eat more. And in fact, food scientists talk about cravability as something they're designing into the food. And they can do that. They know how to do that. You know, we're being manipulated by the food science and the marketing.

3:21So it's a struggle. America's somewhat unique in food because we don't have a single old traditional food culture. You know, in most cultures, you would eat the way your parents ate growing up, the way their parents ate growing up. And people knew what food was, what wasn't food. This is what we traditionally eat. In America, since we're, you know, a mongrel nation, you know, drawn from so many different cultures, immigrant nation, we don't have a single dominant food culture. And I think that has left us vulnerable to marketing and to fads. And so America will change the way it eats overnight.

4:02I remember the low-fat craze that was like when I was growing up, fat was the evil nutrient. You shouldn't eat fat. And then suddenly in 2002, I know exactly when it happened. It was like it's not fat that makes you fat. It's sugar that makes you fat carbs. So then we have the campaign against carbs. And we're still kind of in that world and celebrating protein. Protein now is the good nutrient. Carbs are the evil nutrient. Fat is depending on what world you're in. If you're in the keto world, fat's fine. If you're in the... Right. So, you know, we're crazy about food. We really are confused, fashion conscious, fashion driven.

4:48And it's no wonder because we're getting these messages. You know, the grocery store is full of foods being sold on the basis of health that aren't healthy. So no wonder we're confused.

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6:14Thank you.