Podcasts about michael pollan in defense

If you want to improve your health and well-being, it is important to know what we should eat, which is why we spoke to Food for Life author Professor Tim Spector OBE on the the "How To Be Books Podcast".Please hit subscribe to hear the whole series on life skills and social change! It should be short and sweet. I look forward to journeying with you through this maze of hacks.Other amazing guests who took part:Yanira Puy, executive business woman, speaker, and certified wellness coach.Shahada Karim, ayurvedic nutritionist and movement therapist.Hortense Julienne, founder of Miss Nang Treats and charity trustee.Kim Kulp, registered dietitian, speaker and gut health expert.Lisann Valentin, actor, author and intuitive coach.Patricia Kolesa, registered dietician.Abigail Ireland, founder of leadership and training consultancy called Understanding Performance.Other books/articles looked at:Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Food. We all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?Michael Pollan's premise In Defense of Food is a simple seven-word summary; 'Eat food, not a lot, mostly plants.' The rise of nutritionism and industrialization means the Western diet has changed for the worse. We're suffering from over-nutrition, so we need to stand up for "real food," and reclaim good health and natural ingredients.Michael Pollan explores the age of nutritionism and asks how we went from eating food to consuming nutrients, and why this is a problem. Then it looks at why a typical Western diet has damaged our health and made us more overweight than ever before. And finally, it provides basic food rules on eating better, and with more enjoyment. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Food. We all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?Michael Pollan's premise In Defense of Food is a simple seven-word summary; 'Eat food, not a lot, mostly plants.' The rise of nutritionism and industrialization means the Western diet has changed for the worse. We're suffering from over-nutrition, so we need to stand up for "real food," and reclaim good health and natural ingredients.Michael Pollan explores the age of nutritionism and asks how we went from eating food to consuming nutrients, and why this is a problem. Then it looks at why a typical Western diet has damaged our health and made us more overweight than ever before. And finally, it provides basic food rules on eating better, and with more enjoyment.

Wellness influencers are everywhere; our social media is littered with shiny haired, sparkly toothed, spray tanned gurus eager to sell us a 'better version' of ourselves. Wellness is just diet culture in organic recyclable wrapping, and my guest Virginia Sole-Smith, feminist author, has had ENOUGH already. Who is responsible for this epidemic of commercialised wellness? WELL, ACTUALLY, our cultural obsession was engineered by thin white men! That's right, back in the late 1990's a bunch of privileged white dudes created a whole new way of gaslighting women! No longer content with the simplistic demand for thinness, wellness culture has added extra layers of guilt - not only MUST we be thin, we must also care about the environment, never eat processed foods, recycle, and remain ZEN. It's exhausting, confusing, and we've had enough! Join us for an epic rant! Show Notes My guest is the fierce and fabulous Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of “The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America”. Virginia is enormously cheesed off with privileged, thin white men who get off on telling us what to do with our bodies and how big/small we need to be. I found a brilliant article that Virginia had written entitled “Well, Actually...The thin white men who rebranded dieting as “wellness”” - and just HAD to talk to her more about this. There are a truckload of ‘mansplainers’ in the wellness space. And in her article, Virginia is tracing back the timeline of our current wellness saturation. Virginia points out that currently, wellness ‘influencers’ are often thin white women, and they cop a fair amount of criticism for their messaging - RIGHTLY SO - but when we look at where they’re getting this world view of wellness from, it does tend to go back to thin white men who really think they know how everybody should eat. Back in the 1980’s diet culture was heavily influenced by thin white men like Dr Atkins (Atkins Diet) and Dr Agatston who invented the South Beach Diet. We’ve had men telling us what to eat for decades! This trend dovetailed with women entering the workforce since the 1970’s. If we can keep women focused on our bodies, on trying to stay as small as possible, that saps a lot of energy when we could be out dominating the world. In the 1990’s Naomi Wolf wrote in The Beauty Myth that dieting is the most potent sedative in women’s history, it keeps us focused in a really narrow way and not participating in the world. We can trace this trend of the Thin White Men back even further, back to Kellogg, to Banting, to these thin white men who dominated and create the narrative of deprivation for us to follow. Even Jenny Craig launched her business with her husband Sid who was really the driver of the business model, while she was ‘the face’. This often happens - a woman is the front of house but a man is powering everything. Guys often take credit for their thinness when in reality they’re born on 3rd base - they have bodies that are genetically programmed to be a smaller size. Others are programmed differently, theirs just happens to fit a cultural ideal. It’s not really through anything they did, it’s just biology & genetics that set them up this way. The ‘bootstrapping’ mentality - if you have success, that’s definitely down to you, but concepts like adversity, hardship, oppression - none of that really applies to the Thin White Men. In the mid 2000’s, Thin White Guys got more subtle, and more overtly political than their diet peddling forefathers In the 1990’s and even early 2000’s, we knew when a diet was a diet. But when Thin White Men like Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food) and Michael Bittman (Vegan Before 6) came along, they talked about food with an environmental and political agenda, this whole other mission of reducing meat consumption and embracing organic farming. Concepts like this - having a more sustainable food supply, or eating more plant based foods, - are fine, and useful ideas, but the Thin White men turn these concepts into dogma, and take it into communities who just don’t have access to this way of living and to be honest have bigger problems to face than the quality of the food they’re eating, and say hey, you should eat like me and the “o*esity crisis’ will be solved. For many people, it’s hard to connect with organic farmers, but if it is framed in terms of the weight issue, this becomes something that really grabs people’s attention. This is where the groundwork for our modern concepts of wellness came from - now it’s not about dieting, now it’s about wellness and healthy eating and sustainability. Except it’s not, it’s still about weight! We’ve really lost the environmental agenda but we’ve still attached this morality to these food choices. This is where it gets really elitist and classist and racist, in addition to the misogyny that’s been there all along. I’m better than you because of how I eat. Louise admits that early on in her anti-diet career, Michael Pollan’s book was for sale in her practice! He was so convincing. It took her a while to recognise how elitist and snobby (and white) it was to tell people that a certain way of eating was morally superior to another, without taking consideration of the multiple layers of disadvantage and inequality people experience. Michael Pollan did one great thing - he called out the ‘fake’ diet foods (especially low fat yogurt, how gross) which were very unsatisfying for people. The problem was he replaced it with another diet and did not empower people to trust their bodies. Pollan never questioned the thin is good rhetoric, he even talks about his way of eating as a way to solve the ‘problem’ of larger bodies. Pollan’s second book, “The Rules of Food”, is like a women’s dieting magazine article, but it’s written by a man. Ewwwww. The mansplaining of wellness is not just an American Thin White Man thing. In the UK, Jamie Oliver also talks up the power of unprocessed foods as a way of solving the apparent ‘crisis’ of larger kids. At first, approaches like Oliver’s seemed exciting, and Louise had his cookbooks as well, it was fun to enjoy cooking again with lots of fresh foods. But as time progressed it seems that his message has increased in fervour, that the reason to eat like this is to change the problem of fat bodies. Jamie’s habit of lunch box shaming drives Virginia crazy, as kids don’t really have a lot of choice as to what’s in their lunch box. It’s particularly stigmatising to poorer and disadvantaged kids, which is evil! Here in Australia, the King of the Humans when it comes to Thin White Men mansplaining wellness is Pete Evans or ‘Paleo Pete’, a celebrity chef from Masterchef who owned a pizza restaurant and was normal until he discovered the Paleo diet, lost 300 grams, and became an absolute zealot. He’s gone really extreme, totally rogue, anti-fluoride, anti-vaccination etc. The amount of moralising and dressing up wellness as a disguise for thinness is really awful with Pete. It seems he is everywhere right now as well. It’s really dangerous the way people like this use flimsy arguments or bring up totally shit studies to support their extreme views. And we are vulnerable to these people and these messages. In her article Virginia writes that celebrity influencers like Gwyneth Paltrow have been ‘simultaneously inspiring and terrorising their audiences”, and this works well for Paleo Pete too. It’s 5% inspite and 95% terrify and gaslight, introducing this distrust in our bodies. Don’t trust yourself, you need to outsource everything to this guru or expert. This was the foundation for Virginia’s book The Eating Instinct, that as humans, we generally know when we are hungry, what we feel like eating, and when we are full. We can trust this. Virginia is a journalist, who used to be a ghost writer for celebrity “lifestyle’ books, and used to cover ‘wellness’ for women’s magazines - right in the thick of it! As a feminist it was really hard and Virginia struggled with the messages women were being given around food. For a long time, Virginia looked for the ‘right’ diet - one that would work. And Michal Pollan offered that, or so it looked, so for a long time Virginia was on that bandwagon. In 2013 when Virginia’s daughter Violet was born, everything changed. Violet was born with a congenital heart condition and she almost did. As a result of this, she stopped eating completely and was dependent on a feeding tube for the best part of 2 years. Virginia had done everything ‘right’ - really trying to look after her prenatal nutrition, exercise etc, and now her baby would not eat and no-one knew why. There are no experts, there are no plans here. There’s just me and this kid and we’ve got to figure this out! When Violet was too scared to eat, it really brought home the reality of food as a basic instinct. It’s not about finding the right ‘plan’, it’s about figuring out our own relationship with food. Virginia realised it wasn’t just about nutrition: food needed to provide comfort. In order to get Violet to eat, she needed to teach her that food was safe, comforting and pleasurable. In diet culture emotional eating is viewed as a ‘bad’ thing, when in fact this is what we’re programmed to do. Babies eat emotionally! The act of feeding a baby raises our oxytocin levels - the hormones associated with love, safety and comfort. And this is breast or bottlefeeding! Diet and wellness culture views eating as something to get ‘right’ nutritionally, and ignores all of these other important aspects of our relationship with food. Even in some non-diet spaces, there’s a message that if you learn the principles of mindful eating you’ll stop comfort or emotional eating. This is different to eating to numb difficult emotions - which we may call comfort eating, but it’s not really providing comfort, it’s more a habit of eating to escape or check out from difficult emotions. It’s more accurately described as ‘distress’ eating. At the heart of this kind of eating is restriction, and you can’t get away from this type of pattern unless you have full permission to eat. Once this sense of permission and safety is established, a beautiful self-regulation can appear, so you feel safe eating whatever you feel like, and you also know when you’ve had enough. That’s pretty radical, and something a lot of adults struggle with in diet culture! Many people who come to the non-diet approach arrive because they want to stop the binge or comfort eating. But establishing a safe foundation of food safety needs to happen first - not elimination of binge eating. When you start the process of permission and food safety, often you will eat more than you might be used to while everything is settling in. This can be scary for people, but it is necessary to keep embracing full permission, as it’s only when we feel truly safe that we can start to feel more in contact with physical signals. Going through the process of eating more is not pathological - you are healing from this deprivation induced trauma. It can take time & can be messy! In diet culture the restriction mindset is so dominant, particularly for women we are taught that we should always want less. It’s so difficult to eat, especially in public. This is this patriarchal message about food that we’ve really internalised. It’s a very radical thing to reject that, and to say I embrace my hunger, my appetite, my body, my right to take up space in the world. We’re fighting not just for ourselves, but for others, and for future generations. During Virginia’s experiences with Violet, she got to know a lot about paediatric feeding problems and how they are treated. In the USA, babies are treated at feeding centres, not eating disorder clinics. It’s behaviour therapy - kids are encouraged to push through their fears, and get rewards for eating a bite of food. Virginia was horrified - knowing that her daughter was going to grow up in diet culture, with so many messages already there to not listen to her body - and the programs would really strongly reinforce this. Virginia believed that Violet’s response to the trauma was logical, and that treatment needed to honour that. She researched & found out about the child lead model, a longer process but one which really allows the trauma to heal and for the child to re establish a sense of safety and comfort around food. The behavioural approach is quicker, it’s a kind of boot camp model. But for Virginia, it was like looking at dieting versus intuitive eating, and she wanted to do the intuitive model. Virginia began to realise that it is the loss of the eating instinct - the loss of knowing hunger, fullness, and a sense of safety and comfort - that underpins many eating struggles. So she wrote a book about it! The book has many stories of how people get disconnected from their instincts, and how this impacts their lives. Virginia’s experiences with Violet have really helped her with her second daughter, to navigate things like appetite fluctuation without panic. The feeding philosophy which underpins Virginia’s approach to Violet is called “The Division of Responsibility in Feeding” developed by Ellyn Satter, she’s been around for decades. This says that feeding is a relationship, that parents and kids have distinct roles. Parents are in charge of what, where and when to eat. Kids are in charge of how much to eat, and whether or not to eat everything on offer. With this model, food intake may not look ‘balanced’ at every meal, but over time, they tend to get everything they need. Also what appears is this ability to self regulate, for the kids to really know what they need, it’s so awesome. When you have kids who are intuitive eaters, things change all the time. And that’s ok. It’s about honouring the child’s instincts, not policing their nutrition intake. This is where the lunch box policing is not helpful! There are many other considerations than dietary quality. An awful news article came out recently comparing the lunch box contents of rich kids to poor kids, with the conclusion of look how much better the rich kids are eating…..tone deaf! It is a privilege to be able to think about dietary quality. It is ok to give your kids comfort food. And processed foods! Violet wouldn’t have learned how to get comfortable to eat without baby food pouches. Certainly, there’s something wonderful about improving our food supply. But we need to not shame people, and also to honour people’s individual relationships with food. Feeding kids is not easy! We need to honour the work parents are doing. Resources Mentioned: Virginia’s amazing piece for Bitch Media: “Well, actually…..” More about Ellyn Satter & The Division of Responsibility model The awful news article on school lunch boxes Find out more about Viriginia Sole Smith

Wellness influencers are everywhere; our social media is littered with shiny haired, sparkly toothed, spray tanned gurus eager to sell us a 'better version' of ourselves. Wellness is just diet culture in organic recyclable wrapping, and my guest Virginia Sole-Smith, feminist author, has had ENOUGH already. Who is responsible for this epidemic of commercialised wellness? WELL, ACTUALLY, our cultural obsession was engineered by thin white men! That's right, back in the late 1990's a bunch of privileged white dudes created a whole new way of gaslighting women! No longer content with the simplistic demand for thinness, wellness culture has added extra layers of guilt - not only MUST we be thin, we must also care about the environment, never eat processed foods, recycle, and remain ZEN. It's exhausting, confusing, and we've had enough! Join us for an epic rant! Show Notes My guest is the fierce and fabulous Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of “The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America”. Virginia is enormously cheesed off with privileged, thin white men who get off on telling us what to do with our bodies and how big/small we need to be. I found a brilliant article that Virginia had written entitled “Well, Actually...The thin white men who rebranded dieting as “wellness”” - and just HAD to talk to her more about this. There are a truckload of ‘mansplainers’ in the wellness space. And in her article, Virginia is tracing back the timeline of our current wellness saturation. Virginia points out that currently, wellness ‘influencers’ are often thin white women, and they cop a fair amount of criticism for their messaging - RIGHTLY SO - but when we look at where they’re getting this world view of wellness from, it does tend to go back to thin white men who really think they know how everybody should eat. Back in the 1980’s diet culture was heavily influenced by thin white men like Dr Atkins (Atkins Diet) and Dr Agatston who invented the South Beach Diet. We’ve had men telling us what to eat for decades! This trend dovetailed with women entering the workforce since the 1970’s. If we can keep women focused on our bodies, on trying to stay as small as possible, that saps a lot of energy when we could be out dominating the world. In the 1990’s Naomi Wolf wrote in The Beauty Myth that dieting is the most potent sedative in women’s history, it keeps us focused in a really narrow way and not participating in the world. We can trace this trend of the Thin White Men back even further, back to Kellogg, to Banting, to these thin white men who dominated and create the narrative of deprivation for us to follow. Even Jenny Craig launched her business with her husband Sid who was really the driver of the business model, while she was ‘the face’. This often happens - a woman is the front of house but a man is powering everything. Guys often take credit for their thinness when in reality they’re born on 3rd base - they have bodies that are genetically programmed to be a smaller size. Others are programmed differently, theirs just happens to fit a cultural ideal. It’s not really through anything they did, it’s just biology & genetics that set them up this way. The ‘bootstrapping’ mentality - if you have success, that’s definitely down to you, but concepts like adversity, hardship, oppression - none of that really applies to the Thin White Men. In the mid 2000’s, Thin White Guys got more subtle, and more overtly political than their diet peddling forefathers In the 1990’s and even early 2000’s, we knew when a diet was a diet. But when Thin White Men like Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food) and Michael Bittman (Vegan Before 6) came along, they talked about food with an environmental and political agenda, this whole other mission of reducing meat consumption and embracing organic farming. Concepts like this - having a more sustainable food supply, or eating more plant based foods, - are fine, and useful ideas, but the Thin White men turn these concepts into dogma, and take it into communities who just don’t have access to this way of living and to be honest have bigger problems to face than the quality of the food they’re eating, and say hey, you should eat like me and the “o*esity crisis’ will be solved. For many people, it’s hard to connect with organic farmers, but if it is framed in terms of the weight issue, this becomes something that really grabs people’s attention. This is where the groundwork for our modern concepts of wellness came from - now it’s not about dieting, now it’s about wellness and healthy eating and sustainability. Except it’s not, it’s still about weight! We’ve really lost the environmental agenda but we’ve still attached this morality to these food choices. This is where it gets really elitist and classist and racist, in addition to the misogyny that’s been there all along. I’m better than you because of how I eat. Louise admits that early on in her anti-diet career, Michael Pollan’s book was for sale in her practice! He was so convincing. It took her a while to recognise how elitist and snobby (and white) it was to tell people that a certain way of eating was morally superior to another, without taking consideration of the multiple layers of disadvantage and inequality people experience. Michael Pollan did one great thing - he called out the ‘fake’ diet foods (especially low fat yogurt, how gross) which were very unsatisfying for people. The problem was he replaced it with another diet and did not empower people to trust their bodies. Pollan never questioned the thin is good rhetoric, he even talks about his way of eating as a way to solve the ‘problem’ of larger bodies. Pollan’s second book, “The Rules of Food”, is like a women’s dieting magazine article, but it’s written by a man. Ewwwww. The mansplaining of wellness is not just an American Thin White Man thing. In the UK, Jamie Oliver also talks up the power of unprocessed foods as a way of solving the apparent ‘crisis’ of larger kids. At first, approaches like Oliver’s seemed exciting, and Louise had his cookbooks as well, it was fun to enjoy cooking again with lots of fresh foods. But as time progressed it seems that his message has increased in fervour, that the reason to eat like this is to change the problem of fat bodies. Jamie’s habit of lunch box shaming drives Virginia crazy, as kids don’t really have a lot of choice as to what’s in their lunch box. It’s particularly stigmatising to poorer and disadvantaged kids, which is evil! Here in Australia, the King of the Humans when it comes to Thin White Men mansplaining wellness is Pete Evans or ‘Paleo Pete’, a celebrity chef from Masterchef who owned a pizza restaurant and was normal until he discovered the Paleo diet, lost 300 grams, and became an absolute zealot. He’s gone really extreme, totally rogue, anti-fluoride, anti-vaccination etc. The amount of moralising and dressing up wellness as a disguise for thinness is really awful with Pete. It seems he is everywhere right now as well. It’s really dangerous the way people like this use flimsy arguments or bring up totally shit studies to support their extreme views. And we are vulnerable to these people and these messages. In her article Virginia writes that celebrity influencers like Gwyneth Paltrow have been ‘simultaneously inspiring and terrorising their audiences”, and this works well for Paleo Pete too. It’s 5% inspite and 95% terrify and gaslight, introducing this distrust in our bodies. Don’t trust yourself, you need to outsource everything to this guru or expert. This was the foundation for Virginia’s book The Eating Instinct, that as humans, we generally know when we are hungry, what we feel like eating, and when we are full. We can trust this. Virginia is a journalist, who used to be a ghost writer for celebrity “lifestyle’ books, and used to cover ‘wellness’ for women’s magazines - right in the thick of it! As a feminist it was really hard and Virginia struggled with the messages women were being given around food. For a long time, Virginia looked for the ‘right’ diet - one that would work. And Michal Pollan offered that, or so it looked, so for a long time Virginia was on that bandwagon. In 2013 when Virginia’s daughter Violet was born, everything changed. Violet was born with a congenital heart condition and she almost did. As a result of this, she stopped eating completely and was dependent on a feeding tube for the best part of 2 years. Virginia had done everything ‘right’ - really trying to look after her prenatal nutrition, exercise etc, and now her baby would not eat and no-one knew why. There are no experts, there are no plans here. There’s just me and this kid and we’ve got to figure this out! When Violet was too scared to eat, it really brought home the reality of food as a basic instinct. It’s not about finding the right ‘plan’, it’s about figuring out our own relationship with food. Virginia realised it wasn’t just about nutrition: food needed to provide comfort. In order to get Violet to eat, she needed to teach her that food was safe, comforting and pleasurable. In diet culture emotional eating is viewed as a ‘bad’ thing, when in fact this is what we’re programmed to do. Babies eat emotionally! The act of feeding a baby raises our oxytocin levels - the hormones associated with love, safety and comfort. And this is breast or bottlefeeding! Diet and wellness culture views eating as something to get ‘right’ nutritionally, and ignores all of these other important aspects of our relationship with food. Even in some non-diet spaces, there’s a message that if you learn the principles of mindful eating you’ll stop comfort or emotional eating. This is different to eating to numb difficult emotions - which we may call comfort eating, but it’s not really providing comfort, it’s more a habit of eating to escape or check out from difficult emotions. It’s more accurately described as ‘distress’ eating. At the heart of this kind of eating is restriction, and you can’t get away from this type of pattern unless you have full permission to eat. Once this sense of permission and safety is established, a beautiful self-regulation can appear, so you feel safe eating whatever you feel like, and you also know when you’ve had enough. That’s pretty radical, and something a lot of adults struggle with in diet culture! Many people who come to the non-diet approach arrive because they want to stop the binge or comfort eating. But establishing a safe foundation of food safety needs to happen first - not elimination of binge eating. When you start the process of permission and food safety, often you will eat more than you might be used to while everything is settling in. This can be scary for people, but it is necessary to keep embracing full permission, as it’s only when we feel truly safe that we can start to feel more in contact with physical signals. Going through the process of eating more is not pathological - you are healing from this deprivation induced trauma. It can take time & can be messy! In diet culture the restriction mindset is so dominant, particularly for women we are taught that we should always want less. It’s so difficult to eat, especially in public. This is this patriarchal message about food that we’ve really internalised. It’s a very radical thing to reject that, and to say I embrace my hunger, my appetite, my body, my right to take up space in the world. We’re fighting not just for ourselves, but for others, and for future generations. During Virginia’s experiences with Violet, she got to know a lot about paediatric feeding problems and how they are treated. In the USA, babies are treated at feeding centres, not eating disorder clinics. It’s behaviour therapy - kids are encouraged to push through their fears, and get rewards for eating a bite of food. Virginia was horrified - knowing that her daughter was going to grow up in diet culture, with so many messages already there to not listen to her body - and the programs would really strongly reinforce this. Virginia believed that Violet’s response to the trauma was logical, and that treatment needed to honour that. She researched & found out about the child lead model, a longer process but one which really allows the trauma to heal and for the child to re establish a sense of safety and comfort around food. The behavioural approach is quicker, it’s a kind of boot camp model. But for Virginia, it was like looking at dieting versus intuitive eating, and she wanted to do the intuitive model. Virginia began to realise that it is the loss of the eating instinct - the loss of knowing hunger, fullness, and a sense of safety and comfort - that underpins many eating struggles. So she wrote a book about it! The book has many stories of how people get disconnected from their instincts, and how this impacts their lives. Virginia’s experiences with Violet have really helped her with her second daughter, to navigate things like appetite fluctuation without panic. The feeding philosophy which underpins Virginia’s approach to Violet is called “The Division of Responsibility in Feeding” developed by Ellyn Satter, she’s been around for decades. This says that feeding is a relationship, that parents and kids have distinct roles. Parents are in charge of what, where and when to eat. Kids are in charge of how much to eat, and whether or not to eat everything on offer. With this model, food intake may not look ‘balanced’ at every meal, but over time, they tend to get everything they need. Also what appears is this ability to self regulate, for the kids to really know what they need, it’s so awesome. When you have kids who are intuitive eaters, things change all the time. And that’s ok. It’s about honouring the child’s instincts, not policing their nutrition intake. This is where the lunch box policing is not helpful! There are many other considerations than dietary quality. An awful news article came out recently comparing the lunch box contents of rich kids to poor kids, with the conclusion of look how much better the rich kids are eating…..tone deaf! It is a privilege to be able to think about dietary quality. It is ok to give your kids comfort food. And processed foods! Violet wouldn’t have learned how to get comfortable to eat without baby food pouches. Certainly, there’s something wonderful about improving our food supply. But we need to not shame people, and also to honour people’s individual relationships with food. Feeding kids is not easy! We need to honour the work parents are doing. Resources Mentioned: Virginia’s amazing piece for Bitch Media: “Well, actually…..” More about Ellyn Satter & The Division of Responsibility model The awful news article on school lunch boxes Find out more about Viriginia Sole Smith

Emma & Stella chat all about their favourite topic in this episode - and not in the way that you might expect. With all of the information we are fed these days about food, diet & health, it can be difficult to cut through all the noise and return to the basic importance of real food, and all the incredible things it does for us. Key Takeaways: The cultural, traditional, historical & generational importance of food Letting go of engrained food beliefs in order to appreciate the basic nourishment that it brings to us How food brings people & cultures together, and brings so much joy & inspiration to our lives Withholding judgement about the food choices of others (and what this judgement may say about you!) The fine line between nourishing your body with the "right" foods & simply enjoying all foods without reservation Plus - some deep thoughts about the universe & human existence  Food Books/Articles We Love: "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan "In Defense of Food" by Michale Pollan "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" by Samin Nosrat "The Last Conversation You'll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right" by Mark Bittman & David L. Katz (on Grub Street): http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/ultimate-conversation-on-healthy-eating-and-nutrition.html?fbclid=IwAR1NfH0dK38DgWt7ylAb4q8jXV2OEHe5nZl9KUYrcvr2mOFmTe6OuLTi3ms

Save money, eat better, and save the planet? Sound too good to be true? Zero Waste Chef Anne-Marie Bonneau, creator of the blog Zero Waste Chef is on the episode today to talk about just that! In this fun, anecdotal conversation she talks practical tips and stories on how to go zero waste in the kitchen. If you like today's episode, hit that subscribe button to hear more. Check out Anne-Marie's blog for all the waste free and package free inspiration: https://zerowastechef.com/ Instagram: @zerowastechef Zero Waste Chef's Book List: "Draw Down: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming," Paul Hawken "The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food," Dan Barber "You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in Farming," Joel Salatin "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A History of Four Meals," Michael Pollan "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto," Michael Pollan "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation," Michael Pollan New episodes every Sunday, at some point. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Overcast and more. Contact us at practicallyzerowaste@gmail.com Instagram @practicallyzerowastepod and @elsbethcallaghan Facebook Practically Zero Waste Podcast Support the podcast at www.anchor.fm/practicallyzerowaste/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/practicallyzerowaste/message

It's so easy to get caught in our own ruts in life, especially when it comes to our food, never giving much thought to what goes in until a health crisis or some other event forces us to pause and take stock of our dietary choices. On today's episode, I'm sharing why it's vitally important to take the foods we eat into greater consideration from an environmental, economical, physical, and emotional standpoint. Tune in for more info on supporting your body and health through real food.  -- Show Notes:  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan localharvest.org eatwild.com --   Get in touch! nutritionunscripted@gmail.com On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nutritionunscripted/ On Instagram: @nutritionunscripted With Ashley:  https://www.facebook.com/ashleycastlenutrition @ashley_castle_nutrition ashleycastlenutrition.com            Music by: bendsound.com

科学与玄学，妓女使用 Periscope 做生意的权利，Kong 丑吗？，以及李如一吃 Soylent 摔破头的经历。 每月三十元，支持李如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。 有听众希望我们聊聊 xkcd 的这个漫画，刚好上周又有朋友来信对 Rio 说的「24-bit/96khz 音乐格式难道不是已经被证明是个 joke 吗？」表示反对，两件事可以放在一起谈。 漫画讽刺的是审美和品鉴，或者说审美和品鉴行为中的不确定性。这个话题总有人觉得争不出结果：一方觉得艺术有高下之分简直不需要证明，另一方……另一方最讨厌不能被证明的东西。Rio 说如果一个人无法通过品红酒的双盲测试，至少说明他所做出的任何关于红酒品质的判断都对未来不具备指导意义。这倒是和 Joshua Engel 在 Quora 答的这道题异曲同工。艺术没有用，自然也不可能有什么指导意义。此外艺术还最喜欢不可预测的、危险的东西。不过李如一和 Rio 至少确认了一点：「正确」即不是艺术的目的，也不是科学的目的。 脑筋活络的家伙用 Periscope 直播《Game of Thrones》，居然还真有人看。让我想起了大学时在学校门外的录像厅看盗版《黑客帝国》的事——画质与那份热血少年迫不及待的心情大概都类似。记住，什么片子都非要 1080p 才看的时候，就是你老去的时候。毫无疑问，这位盗火者的 Periscope 账号随后即被封禁。盗版可耻，VCD 画质的盗版同样可耻。但随着科技公司的势力逐渐膨胀，似乎也需要思考一下权力边界的问题。若是娼妓合法化的国家有性工作者想用 Periscope 视频直播谋生，但被 Periscope 以违反用户条款的理由封禁，孰是孰非？最怕政府权力扩张的朋友会立即指出 Periscope 作为商业公司有权歧视用户——只要愿意承担相应后果。但假如 Periscope 在视频直播领域呈一家独大之势，不论是否违法，事实上都会造成性工作者对这一新技术的 access 受损。而 access 恰恰是技术公司最热衷于标榜的东西。 前途无亮的社交玩具 Path 最近推出了名字让人摸不着头脑的新玩具 Kong，从域名 kong.wtf 到视觉设计都大胆恣意地无视硅谷流行的简约优雅（小）清新风。标新立异当然不是没有后果，中文世界似乎已经用一个「丑」字把它打入了冷宫。但 Kong 真的丑吗？你究竟是因为它丑而不喜欢，还是因为你那基于 Path 的设计风格而形成的期待被踩成了七彩碎片而不喜欢？如果能分清这两件事，这封信开头提到的艺术鉴赏的问题也就不是问题了。你能吃高级日式料理，也能吃街边的牛杂，当然你也能够领会 Kong 那「打到埋身」的冲击美感。 美国的听众或许很多人都尝过 Soylent 了？这是一种用来取代「真正的食物」的代餐饮料。粉末冲剂简单方便，价格廉宜，实乃脑力工作者居家旅行必备良友——生产它的公司 Rosa Labs 是这么希望的。这家公司的口号叫「engineering future foods」，而他们也真有在食品生产和研发上贯彻软件工程的做法。每一代 Soylent 都有版本号（最新的是 1.4），说明书叫 release notes，配方开源，鼓励大家去 fork。不过和所有开源的东西一样，Soylent 的入门成本不低。我在过去一周为了实验纯 Soylent 饮食会带来什么后果，已经被迫把自己变成了一位营养学民科。即便如此，还是没能在自己的能量输出和输入之间找到平衡——请各位照字面意思理解：由于血糖不足，前天我坐在沙发上看了一集《Silicon Valley》后站起来不省人事晕倒在地，左边额头上结的痂就是证据。这当然只能怪我自己营养学功课做得不到位，但难道吃 Soylent 的目的不是为了节省时间吗？我过去一周花在思考吃什么以及吃多少上的时间可远远超过了从前。说到底还是当了好奇心的奴隶。开源的东西，省钱或许可以，怎么可能省下时间？食品界可一点不缺各种封装好的库和 XX-as-a-Service，而且各种风味任君选择，低俗如 Kong 者——例如纽约的 Papaya King 热狗店——也有大批拥趸。Rio 的经典比喻：只靠 Soylent 过活的我，就像一只没有电量指示灯的 Apple Watch：饥饿是常态，但永远不知道什么时候算是吃饱了。 李如一最近在玩的 app（Rio 最近没有玩什么 app） Dark Echo Highball 最近我们读的一些文章 David Tod Roy 的英译本《金瓶梅》是堪比《计算机程序设计艺术》的宏伟工程 1990 年代的三款经典女性主义游戏重见天日，李如一也有捐 Kickstarter 哦 相关链接 《Byte》杂志上的「智能手表」 Dan Lavry: Sampling Theory For Digital Audio (PDF) The Science of Sample Rates (When Higher Is Better — And When It Isn’t xkcd: Connoisseur Joe Biden UCSD 的作曲家梁雷利用黄宾虹的画作曲 Insex（蜘蛛系列） Kong 内核恐慌第十五期：数据可视化与交互设计 Papaya King（李如一在节目里没想起名字的热狗店） Soylent Nectar Soylent 创始人最初的实验报告（2013） 《纽约客》对 Soylent 的报道：The End of Food 味之道 nvALT Notational Velocity Ubuntu Linux from Scratch Silicon Valley（美剧） Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food Phytochemical 人物简介 李如一：字节社创始人。 Rio: Apple4us 程序员。

On today's show, it's the first Best of After the Bell. You're gonna love the insightful and thought-provoking talks by Michael Pollan, Sir Ken Robinson, Ann Cooper, Alan Watts, Richard Feynman, and Aardman Animations — along with new discussions and commentary about the key themes. Links for this episode:The Lion Interview - Creature Comforts - YouTubeAlan Watts "the Earth is People-ing" Animation - YouTubeFeynman :: Rules of Chess - YouTubeSir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - YouTubeMichael Pollan: In Defense of Food 3 - YouTubeAnn Cooper: What's wrong with school lunches | Video on TED.comHumans Are Not Broken - Angelo's BlogThe Latest in Paleo Community on Facebook - Post a link or just say hi!

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Sponsored by Bastyr University, Warren joins Michael Pollan onstage and discusses the need for one meatless day. the disaster that is bio-fuel, and the stupidity of chickens. http://www.bastyr.edu http://www.thewarrenreport.com

The author of the national bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma returns with a manifesto for our times: what to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health.This program was presented by ALOUD.