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The thing about food in this country and body and beauty standards?
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I'd like to begin with a fact. We eat like crap.
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And in one and a half generations, we forgot how to cook and what food was.
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This is the Abbey Normal podcast, here to tell you that you're weird and that's normal.
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I'd like to begin with a fact. Whether in a small town like McAllen and the.
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Rio Grande or in Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles.
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It is business. Big business.
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Hello and welcome back. As a reminder, Maureen was on the injectable Monjaro
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for a year and a half to address her metabolic disorder.
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She put me on an injectable, and I have lost 55 pounds.
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Go back to the last episode, Skinny Minnie, to hear more about her health rollercoaster.
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Now, we all know that body judgments are inescapable, And that,
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of course, extends to the use of medications and injectables that lead to weight loss.
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So, today we're going to discuss those judgments, which lead to fear and secrecy
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within our relationships.
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And we're also going to explore the evil trifecta that impacts how we all eat
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and what we can, maybe, do about it.
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That's taken on multiple industries.
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Buckle the F up.
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There does seem to be some judgment about using this medicine.
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Right. Which I don't actually think should exist.
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You shouldn't feel bad that somebody has lost weight because they got medical support.
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Yeah. And you did it all on your own and were able to work out and stuff.
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People are having very strong reactions to this drug being a cheat.
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And I think it's really important for people to understand that there are so
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many different body types.
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And the foods and stuffs we're putting into those body types in America and
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in the West does nothing but exploit the need for us to eat more and put on
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weight. And it's a really unhealthy diet.
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And if this is part of the solution, then that's great. You shouldn't be judged
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for that. It is just dealing with another.
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I mean, I do feel like there's so much of the hurt people, hurt people concept occurring here, right?
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So if for our whole lives, we've been told just that willpower,
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you need the willpower. Exactly. If you want it, you can do it.
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You just have to, you know, put the pedal to the metal. So fucking American, right?
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So that is bullshit, but that's ingrained in us, right?
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It is. So it's a little bit like, well, this isn't fair that these people now
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get to just take a drug and have
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what I've been trying and wanting for my entire life. That's not fair.
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And then also just the cognitive dissonance of realizing that that message is
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bullshit. And like, now what do we do with that?
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So, yeah, I do think that folks that have been able to leverage this as a medical
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solution, like, are stuck in the crosshairs of kind of this new understanding
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that people are having. Yeah. Unfortunately.
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Unfortunately. And there's the whole other thing of like,
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and I don't know how much this was happening, but for a while there were like
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shortages and sometimes I'd have to wait a while to get the drug because everybody
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was so desperate to get their hands on it, including celebrities to lose weight,
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to get ready for a photo, a movie.
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Like that's how great the need is. Like,
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Does the person who's the movie star really need to lose the weight? No. Right.
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But they think they need to. Absolutely. Because they're just as brainwashed as the rest of us.
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And so like this need is real, but for so many different reasons. Right.
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The need is real. And yet it feels kind of strange, honestly,
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to see so many folks around you shrinking all at the same time.
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And as you heard last episode, we don't know what's going on with people on the inside.
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But bringing up the celebrity thing led us into talking about the judgments
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that they face too, including one of my favorite English actresses and activists.
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Do you follow Jamila Jamil from The Good Place?
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Anyway, she's great. She's this, you know, beautiful Indian actress.
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Oh, I know who she is. Yeah, and the media has just, like, torn her apart.
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In so many different ways and she's been
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a victim of like you know when she's thin she gets the she's beautiful
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even though she's sick and depressed you know in that
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photo then she gains weight and she's happy and the media
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blows her up on on that i don't think i had really a point aside from the way
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that these poor i feel bad even defending them but these poor models and actresses
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that have to be a size two and are made to feel fat when they can't fit into
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the two when The mirror size four. Or the zero. Yeah.
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Yeah. So like. It's insidious. There are reasons for potentially using a drug
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like this are the same ones that we would have. Exactly. So anyway.
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I'm going to find a way for us to travel into the past because I just read a story. Uh-huh.
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Mama Cass's daughter is publishing a biography. I don't know if you saw that ever.
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And one of the things she's tackling is this notion that Mama Cass died from
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choking on a hand sandwich. Yeah.
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Which is total bullshit, but it's something we were all told,
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right? This is Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Pampas. Yep,
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yep. She had a heart attack.
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eating because she was heavy. Right.
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And why is that the thing that we remember and not the beautiful singing?
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Yeah. And the beautiful songs? Yeah.
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And that really tells us a lot about where we are in
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the West especially in this country and i really think america
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has a special way of dealing with it because we were founded by
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puritans so you have you have to do it yourself if you don't do it right you're
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wrong at some level it's because god is displeased and like like you know like
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that is what this country was founded on right and immense controlling of the body for everybody
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especially women yeah it was founded by men and puritans and puritanical men,
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and slavery and all of that shit and just informs all the things we're talking
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about every day all the time yeah and so this is a very american way of i think
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the west has this in spades but america in particular has its own flavor of
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dysfunction when it comes to all of these things.
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Her point is that American history informs what we're dealing with today.
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Puritanical attitudes about hard work and self-control, the roots of slavery
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and racism that value a thin and white body over others, and toxic patriarchy
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that paints one picture of the value of women and is constantly inclined toward
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controlling those bodies.
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These seem like big, old concepts, yet they show up in all facets of life.
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For example, simple healthcare.
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I didn't go to the doctor for a long time because the doctor that I had had
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between college and getting my adrenal gland diagnosis was mean.
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And I finally had to go to the doctor. Of course, I had moved up here by then.
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And so I was like, well, I need to find somebody up here.
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So I had found a GP that I loved. I followed her to every practice.
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Amazing. Dr. Logan, she's wonderful.
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Avis Logan, if you're listening to this, I love you.
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So supportive, so kind, opposite of what I experienced in Southern California. Yeah.
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But I ran into an endocrinologist up here before I found Dr.
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Bohannon, who told me that, well, you know, my wife and I both lost 10 pounds
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by just switching to salads at lunch and had me in tears in the parking lot
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because I was like, why am I even talking to this guy? I actually just walked out.
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Yeah. He wasn't listening to the struggle I'd been through. I don't want to
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hear one word, honestly, from a man, doctor. No.
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When I finally found my current endocrinologist, she's just like, look, there's science.
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There's figuring out what's going on with you. And then we'll come up with a plan. Don't worry.
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Like, we'll figure this out. And she's told me stories about other people she's worked with.
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And she's like, look, I just want you to be healthy. You know,
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in your case, I felt strongly you needed to lose some weight because your numbers were changing.
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you're taking care of yourself, I'm not worried about it. Yeah.
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Do you know how it's so refreshing?
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So refreshing and should not be controversial.
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No, it should not be controversial. No. Treatment should be based on your health.
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The things that are used by health insurance, of course, right?
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That's the fourth thing. They make money off of us too. We can add that to your list.
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Yeah, There's no holistic approach to health in this country. Right.
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There's just money making. Yeah. And so, of course, people are having trouble.
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And most doctors are just trained in the basics.
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The doctors have to please, you know, have to bill the health insurance.
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So they have to like make up. Okay, they've got these things for you to even get covered.
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The doctors then use the tools that are provided for them out there.
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And like one of them is BMI, which is your body mass index. Okay.
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You know, it turns out that's just one indicator of health. Doesn't necessarily mean a thing.
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And it's like just invented based on like some European man.
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Yeah, I was going to say it's based on a dude. It's not based on age.
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It's not based on gender. They've changed it so that there's minimum.
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But it's like they don't take any of your other stuff into account.
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And, you know, an insurance company might not approve something because of that.
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There's nothing holistic about it, which is enraging.
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Also just societally we're going
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to our doctors who are doing the best they can in this
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impossible situation where they have to like bill the health insurance that
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may not cover it but trying really hard to give you care yeah and not having
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enough resources right so i know how lucky i am to have dr bohannon she spends
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an hour with me she doesn't take health insurance for that reason. Oh, wow. Oh, my gosh.
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But I don't really pay her any more than I would for a good massage of the same
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time period. That's awesome. But it goes straight to her.
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And I want to go back to that. Yeah. But she's also mostly retired from seeing patients at this point.
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There's only about 20 of us. But even when she wasn't, she would spend an hour with us.
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She was always running late. And while I would curse her waiting in the waiting
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room, I'd be like, oh no, but this is why. Who else is gonna do this? Yeah.
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Maureen was able to find good care, basically outside of the health insurance
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system, from a doctor who listens first and doesn't make assumptions based on body size alone.
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Doctors are humans. Weight bias affects them too. So let's go back to that.
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For many of us, it originates from our mothers.
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My mom has her own food stuff, and we've never really talked about it,
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but you see it in how she eats.
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She doesn't eat much during the day, and then she'll eat desserts.
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But I know in her head, she's counting all the calories. That's right.
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That's right. 100%. She also has a really negative attitude towards people who are fat.
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Really? And that I haven't actually told her that I've taken the Manjaro because
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I am not comfortable with the way she sees fat people.
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And I know so much of that is internalized, but she'll make fun of people on
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television when we're sitting there watching. Oh, wow.
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Things like that. And that is coming from her. That is coming from her own attitude
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towards people being heavy.
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So I've not been real keen to share a lot of this stuff over the years because
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I don't know how she's is going to react.
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And if I play her this podcast, this is probably going to be news to her.
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Bad on me for not saying it, but it's just been easier not to deal with it.
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Wow. So it's hard. Yeah. There was actually a woman on the Oprah thing today
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who's a doctor and was sharing the same thing as you, that she hadn't told her
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mom yet because she didn't want her mom's judgment.
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And she went on the Oprah thing and talked about it. So she had to tell her
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mom. But yeah, I think there's... There's real judgment. Yeah,
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there's no judgment, but I know I know Logically that's coming from her and it's her shit.
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Yeah, but it certainly doesn't feel good coming from your mom. I,
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And your mom, who's a dietician and has made that her life's work.
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Yeah. So this, you can understand why this is something I didn't necessarily
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want to talk about. Yeah, a little more loaded than maybe for someone else. Yeah. Yeah.
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And maybe you don't need to tell her. I might not. I mean, do you feel like,
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is there a tug where you're like, I really want to tell her or? No.
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point where it's like you know what i don't want.
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The only thing sometimes i think i should
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do is tell her that her attitude towards
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weight is messed up yeah yeah i mean i don't know how much self-inspection your
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mother is willing or able to do she's gonna be 79 at this point i don't it's
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possible though it's possible and so that To me,
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that is the benefit of calling someone on that.
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Yes, she may respond angrily initially.
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Yeah. But maybe it's a thing that she can reflect on that's actually going to
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help her feel better about herself.
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That's the hope more than anything. I don't think I need it anymore because
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or disapprove that I took a drug to help me stave off type two diabetes because
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I have a metabolic disorder.
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I don't need that. I'm fine with that 100%.
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Do I wish I didn't need it? Sure, but that is not what my body does.
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Yeah, but if we can get through some of this negativity that I have been living
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with my whole life, that would help both of us.
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The negativity, meaning the little thoughts in our heads about others,
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and how we talk to ourselves, and what we say to our children.
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And it shows up in all the little pieces of media we consume throughout the day.
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And all of this is passed on generation to generation, often from mother to daughter.
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Don't you think we get a lot of our own stuff from our moms specifically?
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Specifically, I don't really feel like I inherited any of this stuff from my dad.
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I was always just his daughter and he loved me. And yeah, we played.
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He was my soccer coach and it was great.
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And yeah, Oprah shared data around that, too, that so much of this is shaped
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by our relationship with our mothers.
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And they got it from somewhere, too. Right. Of course, they didn't make this up.
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Oh, this is back to point A, internalized patriarchy fueled by capitalism.
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Right. And their mothers were wearing the corsets and the pointy bras to fit
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into their tiny dresses while they were frantically making dinner for their husbands.
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I mean, it hasn't been that long in our society that we've gotten to say no.
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It has not been that long. And as we know by what's happening in Washington, D.C.
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And other states, there's a number of people aren't happy that we say no.
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That we're our own women we don't have to subscribe to this shit but it hasn't
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been very long and working through this stuff is generational,
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because we do pass it down we live a long time and we generally have one or
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two kids some of us have none.
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It hasn't been that long that we've been able to say no,
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In the introduction to Sonia Renee Taylor's book, The Body is Not an Apology,
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Ijeoma Oluo paraphrased says, The concern that my mother had for the size and
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shape of my body was the same concern that her mother had for her when she was a girl.
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It was born from the fear that the world would be cruel to me.
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She could not imagine a world that would love any woman in a larger body,
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and she wanted me to be loved.
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Her concern came from love, and that love felt like a knife to the heart.
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Now, the way we learn to eat also comes from our families, originally.
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Maureen shared that her parents did cook when she was young.
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Yet, back in the 1980s, there were a lot of weird thoughts on what healthy food is.
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My mom and dad, they cooked all the time, but it was that, you know,
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busy, both working parents, simple foods, that kind of thing.
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But there's still plenty and they still are because like they go to Costco and
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they buy all the canned everything, plenty of cans that you just put together to cook, right?
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And that might be better than like buying the frozen stuff at the grocery store,
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but it's still processed food.
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Do you think that canned is better than frozen? Like the frozen meal.
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Oh, okay. Okay. Yes. No, like frozen peas. Fine. Yeah. Great.
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She taught me the basics about good eating, even if some of that stuff has changed.
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Like we always had margarine and nonfat milk, but because that was at the time,
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the thing that they thought was healthy, turns out that, you know,
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fat is actually good fats are actually good for you for a reason.
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That was a big learning for me. My kid was like kind of underweight their first year or so.
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So we went and saw a nutritionist, pretty straightforward.
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Nothing was wrong. The the doctor was like, full fat yogurt,
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full fat milk, all the avocados, full fat cheese, all these things that would help.
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And to me, it was like, oh, yeah, those things are good for us.
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I was just raised that they are bad for us and I would not feed them to a baby.
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We were raised during the low fat craze, which, I mean, it was like from a few
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studies about heart disease.
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But then again, like the corporate food chain latched on that.
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It's like, oh, Oh, this is the way to make money. That's right.
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Sorry, margarine's so bad for you. Really, go back to butter now.
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I mean. It's like, what even was margarine?
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Poly, mono. Just oil, some kind of oil.
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And what I think we talked about at your house when we were talking about the
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pandemic lockdowns, just this idea that we're so far away from our food source.
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So far. Like, we have no idea how food grows, what food we should grow,
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how to harvest said food and turn it into food that we want to eat.
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Nobody knows how to do that. No, it's really hard. That is something that we
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all grew up eating fast food.
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We grew up eating very mechanized and increasingly more mechanized food.
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And nobody cooks anymore.
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What does mechanized food mean? Food that is basically like the 50s,
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right? This was the future. It's the power.
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Women will no longer have to cook all of these meals. They can take these and
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put them in the oven and then you'll have food, right?
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We love that as people because it saves time. That's right. And in one and a
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half generations, we forgot how to cook and what food was.
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That's how fast that happened. That's how fast that happened. Right.
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And so having to relearn has definitely been part of my journey.
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It's one of the reasons I do not miss the farmer's market every Saturday coming out of high water.
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That I have known these farmers for over 20 years that I have learned how to,
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and I'm lucky enough to have space to do it, that I have learned and have to
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grow my own tomatoes and have my lovely backyard hens.
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And it comes from being horrified at the foods I was putting in my body when
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I realized what they were and not understanding how bad they were before that.
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Like actually how much damage they can do to you as a person.
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I have been on a journey of trying to make sure I eat good foods.
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Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma was a huge book for me.
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I'd already sort of started down this path of understanding how bad the American
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diet was when I was trying to figure out what was wrong with me.
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But reading that book made me realize how important it was to actually buy whole
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foods from farmers, grow your
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own stuff, avoid processed food and ultra-processed food and all of that.
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Maureen has been on a journey of learning how to eat. And the system does not make this easy.
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There are powerful players working against us, feeling good emotionally and physically.
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We eat like crap.
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We have an industrialized food complex that is getting more creative and insidious
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every year in what they put in the food and label it as food.
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Humans are lazy. They're going to get the easy thing, but they're also going
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to get the thing that tastes amazing because as they've gotten more insidious
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and very good at making these highly processed foods delicious,
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they see their profits go up, right? It's all about profits.
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Even the same with our whole foods, right? Like so much is run by agribusiness.
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Agribusiness is going to use chemicals to treat the food.
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It's going to use chemicals to grow the food, whether it's an animal or a plant,
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right? So all of these things go into our foodways.
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And so all of this stuff is going into us.
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It's the stuff we see at the store. Most people don't even think about it.
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They just pick it up. It's the food at the grocery store.
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You actually have to really educate yourself about what you're looking at when
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you read the back of a box right so in
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that sense it's nobody's fault this is like this is
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capitalism causing obesity yes yes
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and i that's why like i think it's important to say like yes there's some laziness
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but also the laziness is not causing everything the system the systemic issues
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that you're describing right now right now i'm saying that i should i should
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rephrase that human beings will take the easy way yes so if there's like an
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easy thing at the store that's That's what they're going to buy.
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Not lazy in the sense of not exercising, not eating well.
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Right, right. It's just that that's the way we're programmed to do less work
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if we can do something else.
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Right. And industrialized food knows this about human nature. Yes.
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So that is its own moneymaker. Los Angeles. It is business. Big business.
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Yes, of course we're going to do less work. We're going to go to the freaking
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grocery store and assume that we're buying actual food there.
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So I need Maureen to educate me a little bit more about mechanized and industrialized food.
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Most of America's food is mechanized in that it is produced by agribusinesses
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using fossil fuels as fertilizer and also producing monoculture.
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That is the same crop over large swaths. This is really bad for the environment
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because it doesn't support pollinators and it's putting poison in the ground and on our food.
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Okay, point one, bad for our environment. Then we have the processing.
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That's where the cheap food comes from, which goes to factories,
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which break down those foodstuffs into component parts that are remixed together
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to create highly processed foods that also include things like flavors.
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You know, natural flavors are some, if you read that New York Times article,
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like natural flavors can are sort of ultra
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processed and mechanized but then there's
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also these fake flavors that go into things and all of
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these things that are broken down i mean the impossible burger is a perfect
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example of highly processed mechanized food that is delicious and we love these
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things because they taste delicious because they are so good at putting all
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the flavor back in. So we eat a lot of it.
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But there are more and more studies. And if you look at the New York Times and
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the BBC and a bunch of other places, there is increasing studies that it's terrible
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for us. So no doubt it is part of the problem.
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I think one of the more recent case studies about how badly this affects us
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is maybe something like high fructose corn syrup.
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Not corn Corn syrup like you use for baking, but high fructose corn syrup came
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out of the need to sell and grow more corn because of the way American farming subsidies are set up.
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And a lot of obesity can be tracked to farmers, basically these giant farms
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selling high fructose corn syrup, which is broken down and put into tons of food.
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And that definitely coincides with the increase in obesity and diabetes,
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for example, that is one way that it is very bad for us.
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So it is...
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Just this whole notion that we grow stuff using pesticides and fossil fuels
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and then turn that stuff into delicious but terrible foods for us because we're
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not actually eating whole foods.
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We're eating all these things that basically have been broken down into inedible
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chemicals or parts of the plant or meat or whatever that is not actually whole
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enough to be nutritious anymore more and is also not satisfying.
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Okay, so basically the majority of our food is processed, and the ultra-processed
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category is the one with the biggest red flag.
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Essentially, it's not whole enough to be nutritious, and it's not satisfying,
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so we're inclined to eat more of it.
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This is just the attempt to master nature and feed us a bunch of crap and make
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a lot of money doing that.
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And research is showing a link between these foods and a higher risk of illness
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cancer and heart disease,
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there's a simple solution to how we should eat going back to michael pollan
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who wrote the dilemma his follow-up little tome very succinctly described what
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i think we should try and do with with food,
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eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Right.
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Right. It's pretty simple. Yes. But very hard for us to do.
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Okay, I lied. It's not simple. Because as you now know, two parts of the evil
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trifecta, agribusiness and capitalism, make it hard.
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And, you know, the agribusinesses know this.
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Like, as people have become more aware and are doing things like buying food
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from markets, making sure they get fresh things, growing their own foods,
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companies like Monsanto are buying seeds so that you can't save seeds and grow
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food yourself the next year.
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They will control that part of the chain too. They know all of this.
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It's hard to fight. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's really horrible.
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And it makes me afraid for the future. Yeah.
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I mean, you know, when the climate is so bad that it's going to be hard to grow
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food, they'll probably save us by being able to grow the mechanized food, but it won't be great.
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Well, that's a positive spin on it. Yeah, well, they'll have the technology and the money. Mm-hmm.
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But in the meantime, it's better to like save the seeds that actually do well
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in the climate that is changing or buy from the farmer that's doing the same thing.
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And don't forget that government subsidies are also at play.
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The government subsidizes the agribusiness.
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They do not subsidize the small family farm or the medium family farm or the organic producers.
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So like, why is it that when you go to the store, organic food is twice as much as regular food?
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It's crazy especially the produce and the
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government should be subsidizing them not the agribusinesses right
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and they do not so it is from
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the top down who gets the money who gets the tax breaks who don't so that's
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angering too and I don't know what there is to do about it yeah I don't see
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like a clear path either yeah none of the companies that give all all the money
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to the folks that are in the farm belt are gonna take away their subsidies.
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They're not going to. No, that's not because they're getting them elected.
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Desirable, yeah. Exactly, there's no political will to support the small organic farm.
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And it's like to make any impact via individual action, like that also feels
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not like a thing we could do.
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Like there's not enough people that would care.
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And if they care, have time and have energy and have resources to like shift.
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I think the one place it works is here. It works here at least until recently
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because there were enough of a critical amount.
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I mean, we live in a ridiculous place in terms of abundant organic fresh food
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sources, different than everywhere else in the world. Really?
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And I've been all over the world. Yeah.
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We have it so good here.
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California. California. The bread basket. What is it? The fruit basket?
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00:30:18,020
I don't know. Yeah. But Northern California in particular is ridiculous.
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There are so many small organic farms and small meat producers.
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And you can actually go out and you can buy the good foods.
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The foods that have been raised well if it's an
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animal or the tomato that has
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been raised without pesticides and is an open pollinated
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00:30:37,340
seed that no agribusiness owns
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00:30:43,480
you pay a lot more for it and until recently it wasn't that much more i think
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00:30:47,400
it's actually still not that much more if you go to the grocery store these
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00:30:50,860
days especially if you do know your farmer and you go and your support that's
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00:30:54,520
one direct action that makes a difference you giving a farmer 20 bucks is going
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00:30:55,320
to keep them in business.
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00:31:01,260
So it may not change it on a policy level, but that is one of the ways of acting
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00:31:04,940
local where you actually keep the money with the farmer and get the food directly.
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With little interference and can feed yourself in a healthy way.
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Music.
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Learn how to cook and eat. She eats from an informed place, one that is aligned with her values.
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00:31:28,688
She recommends acting local if you can. And the good news is that it still tastes great.
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00:31:33,488
Thank you. You're welcome. And we always eat so good at your house. Well, you know.
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00:31:37,828
So good. That's been a journey though. That like what you're eating has been
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00:31:41,128
a 25 year journey to get to that point. Right. Like, yeah.
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00:31:45,548
I mean, I think that's part of the the point is like it does take time
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00:31:48,268
and effort and education and all of it
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00:31:51,228
right but it's to me it's one of the most important
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00:31:54,368
things i mean that's what's kind of so nuts
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00:31:58,008
about it is that our life used
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00:32:03,308
to be feeding ourselves yeah that was like your entire life yeah for you know
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00:32:07,828
50 years or whatever was like shelter and feeding yourself warmth yeah right
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00:32:14,628
warmth you know and And now we can't even dedicate the time it would take to
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00:32:16,688
figure out how to feed ourselves well.
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00:32:20,008
Like we just don't, we don't even have that time. We spend no time.
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00:32:25,468
But we do, but we don't know it. We've been tricked into believing we don't. I feel like we don't.
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00:32:32,308
All right, tune in for some actionable tips. Maureen is going to explain how
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00:32:36,688
we have the time and share what she picks up at the farmer's market and how
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00:32:38,448
it transforms into a meal.
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00:32:43,368
We do. How do we find the time? I have my meals that I make Monday through Thursday.
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00:32:48,208
And then I have my meals that I will do on the weekend that require more time. Okay.
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00:32:53,728
And so I feel like everybody can find five to eight things that they can make
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00:32:56,608
during the week that are very healthy for you that don't take time.
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00:33:00,559
You plan them or do you do the same thing every single week?
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00:33:03,759
No. So Saturday when I'm at the farmer's market, I see what's in season.
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00:33:08,079
And there's usually two things that happen. One, if I know that I'm going to
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00:33:10,559
be cooking for friends, I will buy for that.
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00:33:15,299
But then if it's just us, I almost always on the weekend, Cody and I will cook
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00:33:19,839
a bigger, more complicated meal because we like it. We've gotten to that point. Yeah.
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00:33:24,319
And we'll usually make enough as if we were having people over and then we can
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00:33:26,539
eat a little bit of that in the coming days.
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00:33:29,479
Together we do cook together but then at the
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00:33:32,939
same farmer's market i'm like okay here's what's
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00:33:36,319
in season this is what i know i'm going to eat because we're trying we've been
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00:33:40,519
trying really hard not to go out except basically once a week right i mean it's
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00:33:44,519
gotten expensive out there but also there's no reason we shouldn't be cooking
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00:33:49,419
it's important and so that's part of the equation and then what i don't get
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00:33:52,499
at the farmer's market and because we don't eat meat that's a little bit bit easier.
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We have occasional fish, but mostly vegetarian.
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00:34:00,679
I'll get the rest at Berkeley Bowl or Whole Foods though.
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That's Amazon these days and it's getting a little more complicated to shop there.
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00:34:10,599
Or run down to Farmer Joe's, which is the local excellent little grocery store to fill it out.
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00:34:13,399
And so I do think about it every week. I think about what I want.
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00:34:15,099
Right. And you go to two locations.
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00:34:20,339
Yeah. And I get it. And then I plan on cooking it. And I used to be not as good
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00:34:22,979
at this and and I wasted a lot of food, I've gotten a lot better at actually
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buying what we're gonna eat.
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00:34:29,439
So I'll think, oh, wow, look, there's those mushrooms. I'm going to make us
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00:34:32,239
a pasta and a salad with fresh mushrooms and fresh herbs.
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00:34:36,979
And you have that much, for those of you who can't see me out there in audio
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00:34:41,299
land, I'm making a small amount of pasta and a giant salad on the plate, right?
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00:34:43,939
Rather than the other way around, because it's a lot easier to eat a ton of
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00:34:44,979
pasta and a little bit of salad.
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00:34:50,697
Or, you know, like it's asparagus season right now and we've got hens.
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00:34:57,277
So I always have eggs. So a wonderful meal is grilled asparagus with a couple
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00:35:01,957
of eggs over the top, whether poached or medium or over easy over the top.
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And one other vegetable or one, you know, like that is super easy.
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00:35:10,417
A lot of times this is where the canned stuff comes in, right?
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00:35:14,857
You can always make yourself a fresh sandwich with good bread.
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00:35:17,717
You don't have to buy the processed bread. we've got a ridiculous number of
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00:35:21,777
bakers, including Firebrand, who's making sandwich bread now that is delicious.
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00:35:26,557
If you're out of time, you can make yourself a tuna salad sandwich without tons
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00:35:29,117
of mayonnaise, but you can do that within all the vegetables.
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00:35:33,097
And you get that all in one, right? Or sometimes when I make a pasta,
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00:35:35,617
I'll make sure that it's just chock full of vegetables, right?
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00:35:38,837
So it's not just the processed pasta, or you do a whole wheat pasta and you
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00:35:41,877
put tons of vegetables in it. Like what vegetables would you put?
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00:35:44,997
So I just made one last week, I put a ton of mint, a ton
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00:35:48,917
of asparagus a ton of fresh shelling peas lemon
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00:35:54,997
zest lemon juice and then olive oil salt and pepper and just a tiny bit of parmesan
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00:35:59,077
over the top that sounds really good but there was as many vegetables if not
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00:36:03,957
more than the pasta in that pot cooked it all together wow you just have to
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00:36:05,577
teach yourself how to do it.
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00:36:10,798
There's other things that we make all the time that I'm not thinking about. Oh, like rice bowls.
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That's another really. I freaking love a rice bowl. But you get the whole grain
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00:36:18,538
rice. You don't get the white rice. I want the white rice, though. But you know what?
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Brown, nutty California rice is delicious.
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00:36:25,238
Is it? It really is. Okay. And that one, this is another trick, right?
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You stick it in your rice cooker or your Instant Pot, and then it's ready when
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00:36:31,318
you're ready to make the other things.
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00:36:34,298
And then you can put anything on it that you have that's in season.
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00:36:40,138
Oh, yeah. Yeah, grain bowls. Can I do like the mayo red, the yum yum sauce?
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Do you know what the yum yum sauce is? You can put some yum yum sauce.
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00:36:45,918
Okay, thank you. Just not too much. Not too much. Just a little.
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00:36:47,918
Just like a tablespoon. Yeah, yeah.
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00:36:48,698 -->
00:36:53,398
So it's like, again, it's not being puritanical. It's finding the thing that
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is healthy and good for you.
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You can still use like your condiments and stuff and make it taste good.
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You want it to be easy in that sense.
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00:37:07,678
All right, here's the numbers. Maureen's Saturday food shopping trip takes an
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00:37:12,058
hour and a half, and her Monday through Thursday cooking takes about 30 minutes of prep.
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00:37:15,458
So it seems pretty manageable, right?
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00:37:19,238
You just, you have to find the time, and you do have the time.
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00:37:24,478
I mean, there is infinite television, or there's taking some of that infinite
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00:37:27,078
television time and going to the farmer's market once a week,
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00:37:29,758
and then bringing everybody with you, right?
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00:37:34,158
Because then that's how you actually start teaching the next generation where
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00:37:37,018
their food actually comes from and what to do with it. Yeah.
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00:37:37,138 -->
00:37:42,438
And I think making it a family partnership like you and Kogi have done is also critical.
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00:37:46,418
It really is. It makes it fun. You're both, everybody's bought into it.
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00:37:49,498
Yeah. And it's delicious. And it's freaking delicious.
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00:37:53,355
As I said, eating at Maureen and Cody's is a real treat.
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00:37:58,215
But when I was cooking more thoughtfully on the reg, nothing tasted that great.
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00:38:01,895
My partner, Erin, will still make cracks about those Weight Watchers recipes
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00:38:03,615
that contained zero spices.
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00:38:08,715
So on this journey, you do have to be open to failure and eating some things
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00:38:10,815
that do not tickle your taste buds.
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00:38:15,335
I bet when you started on this, not everything tasted good. No, I fucked up last night.
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00:38:19,755
So I'm like, oh, I have those potatoes that I didn't end up using.
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00:38:21,395
Thing. So I'm really on not wasting.
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00:38:24,555
And I have half of the peas that I shucked for that pasta I described.
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00:38:29,515
I'm like, I'm going to make some aloo matar, which is peas and potatoes, Indian style.
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00:38:33,455
And I had saved this recipe that I was going to try because I don't necessarily
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00:38:36,495
know the basis for that by heart.
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00:38:40,655
But I'm never afraid to try it. And we've got all those great spices from Oaktown
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00:38:42,835
Spice. And I'm like, I've got everything I need here.
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00:38:44,215 -->
00:38:46,915
It just tasted wrong. and I put it I
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00:38:50,115
was so excited I put it I cooked my rice I made it looked
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00:38:50,115 -->
00:38:52,895
so good so disappointing and something about the
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00:38:56,235
spice I think it was a bad yeah I think it was a bad recipe I think
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00:38:56,235 -->
00:39:02,015
the spice mix was off yeah and I followed it exactly and Cody was like and Cody
555
00:39:02,015 -->
00:39:05,275
was he came home because he was at band practice last night and he's like oh
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00:39:05,275 -->
00:39:10,015
good you cooked I'm like yeah but that took me about a half an hour it didn't
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00:39:10,015 -->
00:39:13,415
take very long but it did not come out and that's okay I'm like I'm I'm not
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00:39:13,415 -->
00:39:15,875
deterred. I'm just like, okay, I have to find a better recipe.
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00:39:24,055
So that's Maureen's vision for direct action. Buy from your local farmer and
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00:39:26,255
eat non-mechanized food as much as you can.
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00:39:30,135
There's often pre-made food at the farmer's market, and that counts too.
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00:39:32,995
Also, if you need help, phone a friend.
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00:39:37,415
And then ask a lot of questions. You know, it's funny. Jeremy calls me all the
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00:39:39,395
time because he's the one who cooks.
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00:39:39,515 -->
00:39:43,635
Yeah. And he's like, hey, Mo, if I do this, how long should I put it on?
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00:39:47,915
And so I'll tell him. And so like, call me. I love helping people cook.
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00:39:48,075 -->
00:39:50,515
My neighbor, Punkage, is like, I really want to learn bread.
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00:39:50,595 -->
00:39:54,075
I'm like, OK, it's really hard to learn bread together because most of bread
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00:39:56,555
is just waiting for things to rise.
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00:40:01,595
I said, but let's start. Do a focaccia. Nobody can fail at a focaccia.
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00:40:04,395
And he didn't. And now he's so confident. So like, you know,
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00:40:04,415 -->
00:40:07,715
you start with the stuff that you're comfortable with or you know, or you ask questions.
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00:40:13,840
Music.
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00:40:17,775
Even though we're fighting against two parts of the evil trifecta,
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00:40:17,775 -->
00:40:21,795
it seems doable, right? Even kind of enticing.
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00:40:22,729 -->
00:40:27,809
But I'm going to add the final component of that trifecta. And this one you've heard about already.
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00:40:32,549
The diet industry is its own moneymaker, including, you know,
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00:40:32,549 -->
00:40:35,049
and the thing is, like, I don't know if you just saw this article.
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00:40:35,149 -->
00:40:39,469
There was an article about the ADA, which is the American Diabetes Association,
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00:40:42,089
about who they're actually working for.
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00:40:47,009
And it's interesting because my mom stayed with us before she retired to attend
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00:40:49,729
ADA conference, and they were having it at the Marriott in Oakland.
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00:40:52,409
And she came back with all of
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00:40:57,549
her swag as you get at conferences you know your swag bag and it was like McDonald's
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00:41:02,269
I was like McDonald's is sponsoring the American Dietetic Association she's
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00:41:05,209
like yeah I'm like don't you think that's weird she's like oh I didn't really
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00:41:05,209 -->
00:41:09,649
think about it and it was I don't remember I don't remember every single other
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00:41:09,649 -->
00:41:11,529
but the McDonald's really stuck in my.
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00:41:14,669
Craw but the there everything that was
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00:41:17,989
there was basically some form of processed or
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00:41:20,969
industrialized product weird it wasn't like
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00:41:20,969 -->
00:41:24,209
there was you know fresh fresh fruits and vegetables from california
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00:41:27,849
sponsoring right right ada conference somebody actually
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00:41:32,969
sued them for actually siding with the industrialized food over people and they
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00:41:32,969 -->
00:41:35,589
ended up settling out of court but there was just an article in the new york
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00:41:40,769
times about this they sued the ada sued the ada because they were like who are
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00:41:46,989
you working for it turns out it might be for the agribusinesses right so the folks that should
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00:41:47,029 -->
00:41:49,949
be like setting what we're eating are in cahoots with
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00:41:53,429
the ag business yep quote nutrition
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00:41:56,389
professional organizations like the american diabetes
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00:41:59,729
association or american dietetic association or
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00:42:02,969
american society for nutrition often partner with
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00:42:07,869
or advocate for the mechanized food industry i mean this is just a continuation
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00:42:12,309
of the margarine nonsense the suit maureen mentioned was related to splenda
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00:42:17,109
being an elite sponsor of the ada their ex-director claimed she was was pressured
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00:42:20,529
to endorse Splenda recipes with no nutrition-based reasons.
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00:42:23,229
Hint, it's about the money.
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00:42:25,589
Back to diet culture.
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00:42:26,582 -->
00:42:30,682
And then, of course, people aren't happy when they don't feel good. Right.
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00:42:30,802 -->
00:42:35,522
Because when it comes down to it, like, nobody feels good when they're too heavy.
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00:42:35,662 -->
00:42:39,482
Right. Everybody knows that, like, oh, I'm not moving. I'm not exercising.
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00:42:39,622 -->
00:42:41,242
I'm feeling weighed down.
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00:42:41,842 -->
00:42:45,822
When they're too heavy for themselves. For themselves. Correct. Right.
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00:42:46,582 -->
00:42:53,302
But then what do you do? Well, look, there's this whole other series of things you can buy into.
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00:42:53,522 -->
00:42:57,922
Your Jenny Craig's. Yes. Your Weight Watchers, all of these things,
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00:43:03,222
SlimFast, that whole industry has actually been turned on its head because of these injectables.
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00:43:08,882
They're suddenly not going to be making a lot of money because this shot can solve the problem.
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00:43:09,222 -->
00:43:13,702
Right. Or we just have like two tiers now, right? Because people that can afford
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00:43:16,602
$1,200 a month are going to get it.
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00:43:16,722 -->
00:43:19,562
People that can't are still going to be doing Jenny Craig. Exactly.
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00:43:22,702
And losing and gaining and losing and gaining. and
622
00:43:22,702 -->
00:43:25,942
where really I feel like the education is
623
00:43:25,942 -->
00:43:29,362
about what kinds of things to put into your body and how
624
00:43:29,362 -->
00:43:34,142
much is right for you but I don't feel like that is actually going to be something
625
00:43:34,142 -->
00:43:39,502
that's easily accessed or supported by the government and in your real way plus
626
00:43:39,502 -->
00:43:44,742
the people making these injectables are making a gazillion dollars Eli Lilly's
627
00:43:44,742 -->
00:43:48,762
sock is through the roof so you also Also have shareholders, please. Right.
628
00:43:49,442 -->
00:43:54,542
So it's an insidious trifecta. Both of those, all of those solutions,
629
00:43:54,702 -->
00:43:59,582
except maybe even the eating well, but to a lesser degree,
630
00:43:59,822 -->
00:44:05,882
feed off of us all just feeling shitty both emotionally and physically.
631
00:44:06,262 -->
00:44:09,602
Absolutely. They want us to feel shitty regardless of our size.
632
00:44:09,722 -->
00:44:11,782
Yeah. Regardless even of our health.
633
00:44:11,962 -->
00:44:15,962
Exactly. They want us to feel like crap and think that we look like crap and
634
00:44:15,962 -->
00:44:17,702
want to pay money to feel better. Exactly.
635
00:44:22,562 -->
00:44:26,742
Ultimately, here's what Maureen hopes in relation to medical weight loss and food.
636
00:44:28,202 -->
00:44:34,582
I hope that they find a way to make this affordable for people because it is a real game changer.
637
00:44:34,762 -->
00:44:38,722
I do think the education, this is the part that's not going to happen,
638
00:44:38,822 -->
00:44:42,682
right? Right. For all the reasons we talked to, like education for people about
639
00:44:42,682 -->
00:44:46,022
actually how to eat healthy foods needs to happen. Yeah.
640
00:44:47,262 -->
00:44:49,062
It's taken on multiple industries.
641
00:44:50,422 -->
00:44:57,782
But I will say that this is something that will help people not be sick. Yeah.
642
00:44:58,567 -->
00:45:02,267
I told Maureen that Weight Watchers is now offering Weight Watchers Clinic.
643
00:45:02,407 -->
00:45:05,487
That seems to be a combination of the things that we discussed.
644
00:45:05,687 -->
00:45:10,067
They're going to be like, they are going to have like doctors on staff and be.
645
00:45:10,227 -->
00:45:12,727
Oh, so they're okay. So this is a thing that's been happening.
646
00:45:12,787 -->
00:45:14,247
Like people are trying to capitalize.
647
00:45:14,367 -->
00:45:18,407
I've noticed this. Even health insurance have these things now where it's basically
648
00:45:18,407 -->
00:45:19,647
like these weight loss centers.
649
00:45:19,887 -->
00:45:23,367
And they have the doctors on site and they're making it easy for people.
650
00:45:23,367 -->
00:45:26,547
And I feel like it is more cost effective that
651
00:45:26,547 -->
00:45:29,467
way at least for the short term I'll be
652
00:45:29,467 -->
00:45:32,587
interested to see because all this stuff is new be interested
653
00:45:32,587 -->
00:45:36,167
to see long term if they keep the prices down because I remember when
654
00:45:36,167 -->
00:45:39,247
we first started this process and that
655
00:45:39,247 -->
00:45:42,007
first the coupon through Eli Lily worked where it was only
656
00:45:42,007 -->
00:45:44,747
25 a month which is a much more reasonable price I'd be
657
00:45:44,747 -->
00:45:47,847
happy to pay that you know I was prescribed it
658
00:45:47,847 -->
00:45:50,607
off label and they weren't checking for that
659
00:45:50,607 -->
00:45:53,747
in the beginning okay so i was prescribed it
660
00:45:53,747 -->
00:45:57,067
because i'm on the spectrum of diabetes
661
00:45:57,067 -->
00:46:01,007
with the metabolic disorder okay uh-huh sure but after
662
00:46:01,007 -->
00:46:06,167
so many people are like oh my god get me the shot the drug companies are like
663
00:46:06,167 -->
00:46:09,867
whoa we can't keep doing all these coupons and so then they started checking
664
00:46:09,867 -->
00:46:14,567
and so then they you had to answer if you had a prescription because you had
665
00:46:14,567 -->
00:46:18,407
type 2 diabetes and you had to show the prescription got it got it okay and
666
00:46:18,407 -->
00:46:19,987
at that point they stopped covering it.
667
00:46:20,487 -->
00:46:22,827
Also, we don't know what the long-term side effects are.
668
00:46:23,147 -->
00:46:28,087
There is some evidence that there might be a potential to have thyroid cancer,
669
00:46:28,227 -->
00:46:29,747
like they showed that in lab rats.
670
00:46:30,487 -->
00:46:33,307
So it's not something I'm real keen to stay on if I don't have to.
671
00:46:33,527 -->
00:46:37,967
Sure, you don't wanna be one of those lab rats. No, and it didn't seem like,
672
00:46:38,127 -->
00:46:39,307
I mean, they've done some trials,
673
00:46:39,387 -->
00:46:42,667
it didn't seem like it was gonna be that way in humans, but it's new.
674
00:46:42,787 -->
00:46:45,347
We don't know. All these old drugs she had me on had been in,
675
00:46:46,000 -->
00:46:50,060
in like 50-year-old drugs. Like they already know what's going to happen. Nothing.
676
00:46:54,720 -->
00:46:58,360
I filled out the online questionnaire and Weight Watchers told me,
677
00:46:58,420 -->
00:47:02,480
congratulations, I'm qualified for their prescription weight loss program.
678
00:47:02,740 -->
00:47:06,060
And I can expect to lose 26 pounds with my membership.
679
00:47:06,340 -->
00:47:12,180
It would be 800 to $1,200 a month for the medication and another $85 for the benefits.
680
00:47:12,440 -->
00:47:17,320
But this is about my health. I mean, nothing is currently wrong with me health-wise,
681
00:47:17,420 -->
00:47:22,520
but I will reduce my risk of possibly getting diabetes by 5-10%.
682
00:47:25,080 -->
00:47:29,960
Back to these type of centers and the combination of injectables and education.
683
00:47:31,680 -->
00:47:35,880
I read an article about this concept of feeling sated.
684
00:47:37,020 -->
00:47:42,800
Satiety? It's a hard word to say. Do you say it like satiety or satiety?
685
00:47:42,800 -->
00:47:43,980
Right? There's like an I in there.
686
00:47:44,100 -->
00:47:49,360
So I don't know. But so feeling sated is that one of the things about these
687
00:47:49,360 -->
00:47:52,280
industrialized foods I'm talking about, these highly processed foods,
688
00:47:52,500 -->
00:47:59,520
you have to eat a lot more to actually feel full and not just feel full, but feel satisfied.
689
00:47:59,520 -->
00:48:03,300
And so these drugs help you feel satisfied.
690
00:48:03,680 -->
00:48:08,400
And that they think is actually, in addition to making you feel full,
691
00:48:08,460 -->
00:48:13,700
the fact that you feel satisfied is changing behavior for folks who are not
692
00:48:13,700 -->
00:48:15,400
eating the things they should be eating.
693
00:48:15,920 -->
00:48:19,680
And maybe have gained weight because they're eating all these highly processed
694
00:48:19,680 -->
00:48:23,240
foods and haven't learned how to actually cook for themselves in a healthy way.
695
00:48:23,600 -->
00:48:28,000
And so that's a game changer because basically it's like, okay,
696
00:48:28,120 -->
00:48:31,660
you're throwing all this industrialized food at us, but now you're going to feel full.
697
00:48:31,760 -->
00:48:34,520
So even if you're still eating that crappy food, you're not going to eat enough
698
00:48:34,520 -->
00:48:35,900
of it to gain weight. You're going to lose weight.
699
00:48:36,773 -->
00:48:39,593
And feel satisfied while you're on it go off it
700
00:48:39,593 -->
00:48:42,373
you're back to not feeling right and not knowing how to
701
00:48:42,373 -->
00:48:45,393
eat still right and so that's the component that i hope
702
00:48:45,393 -->
00:48:48,313
these centers will be addressing is teaching people actually
703
00:48:48,313 -->
00:48:52,913
how to cook and eat and recognize foods that are good for them i mean i think
704
00:48:52,913 -->
00:48:57,953
that that would be the power of an entity such as weight watchers if they're
705
00:48:57,953 -->
00:49:03,913
offering all that together right like a shot plus a community plus education
706
00:49:03,913 -->
00:49:05,913
yeah properly right Right.
707
00:49:06,333 -->
00:49:10,833
So we'll see. We'll see. Or they'll just continue to be the devil.
708
00:49:15,253 -->
00:49:19,713
Maureen went off Monjaro a few months ago, and she's feeling good and hoping
709
00:49:19,713 -->
00:49:21,673
that her numbers stay where they're supposed to be.
710
00:49:22,013 -->
00:49:26,313
She has no regrets about her decision. And if she has to, she'll do it again.
711
00:49:27,153 -->
00:49:30,873
I think I can do this. I hope I can. I really hope I don't have to go back on
712
00:49:30,873 -->
00:49:31,913
it, but I will if I have to.
713
00:49:32,333 -->
00:49:37,233
Because if my body rebels, my body rebels. Right. Exactly. And you have very
714
00:49:37,233 -->
00:49:38,353
little control over that.
715
00:49:39,473 -->
00:49:44,053
I'd like to begin with a fact. I have none. You have no control over that.
716
00:49:44,053 -->
00:49:45,693
Other than exercising and eating well.
717
00:49:46,333 -->
00:49:50,233
But that's not going to cause weight loss for me. Or it might cause weight gain.
718
00:49:50,160 -->
00:50:06,960
Music.
719
00:50:02,493 -->
00:50:06,913
I did a lot of easy cheats without going fully processed or just giving into
720
00:50:06,913 -->
00:50:13,353
the burrito as much as I love a burrito oh that just made me want a burrito why did you say that?
721
00:50:13,520 -->
00:50:24,989
Music.
