Why do cravings return with a vengeance just when we think we’ve got them beat? And can the answer help us defeat our cravings for good?
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Josh LaJaunie and I talk about new science of metabolism, how Josh lost 230 pounds and kept it off, and how to pursue an authentic human existence.
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The formula to lose weight is obvious: eat less, move more. Unfortunately, it’s wrong. And it’s not because “calories don’t matter.” Discover the new science of metabolism with Herman Pontzer, PhD.
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What’s the root cause of eating disorders? What’s behind our current obesity crisis? Are we hungry for food? For nutrients? Or for joy and connection?
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Knobology is the ability to turn the knobs of your own behavior in real time, in response to changing life circumstances. It’s the opposite of rigid adherence to a prescribed plan with no freedom to deviate.
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Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we’re often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse.
It’s easy to say, “Just eat less,” but it’s not that easy to do.
In this short episode, I share three strategies for reducing caloric intake without feeling deprived.
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Michael Greger’s latest book, How Not to Diet, is just stunning.
It’s a love song to science: its potential, its process, even its limitations.
There has never been a more comprehensive, accessible, and evidence-based look at our current knowledge of how to get to and achieve a healthy weight.
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Brittany Sade is a vegan entrepreneur and health coach. Her company, Prosperiteez Clothing, devotes part of its profits to combatting food insecurity in impoverished communities.
Brittany wasn’t always a paragon of healthy living. Thanks to meat three times a day, along with a serious cheese addiction, she suffered from skin problems, arterial blockages, and overweight.
It took the suffering and death of close family members to wake her to the realization that life didn’t have to be an inexorable descent into disability and disease and painful premature death.
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Margot Freitag is a coach who helps people transition to a plant-based diet successfully and sustainably. Growing up in Northwest Ontario (cue “Helpless” by Neil Young), she suffered from asthma, and made constant trips to the ER throughout her childhood.
As a teen, she became a yoyo dieter, trying every variation she stumbled across in an attempt to lose weight: the apple-only diet, the “don’t eat for a week” diet, low carb, etc. One plan she tried allowed her to eat cheese but not carrots, because sugar. (Sigh…)
As luck would have it, her nutrition instructor in massage school was none other than superstar dietitian Brenda Davis (who kindly appeared on this podcast’s 18th episode to talk about defeating diabetes and debunking paleo). From Brenda, Margot learned that dairy was not her friend.
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Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, “Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead” when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease.
His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to their diets.
In our conversation, we catch up on the decade since he became a famous wellness advocate. How has he weathered that kind of public scrutiny?
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