713: Clean Your Plate

When we force ourselves, or force kids, to ignore their body’s signals for hunger and fullness, that we start to lose touch with those signals.

696: Semi-Sweet

Way back in the time of Teddy Roosevelt, even, these products were being used as a way to try and encourage weight loss.

675: Grocery Shopping

Once, twice, or four times a week – how we shop is changing pretty significantly, no matter where or how often we do it.

622: Lunch Break

Do you take a lunch break? Full episode script Food and mealtimes are nearly always very indicative of cultural attitudes and norms, and in some ways that is no truer than when examining habits and expectations around lunch and lunch breaks. There is, of course, lots of research on this topic — about how […]

587: First Cooking

What was the first thing you learned to cook? Full episode script Ok, right off the bat today I’m going to admit that I’m biased here, to put it gently. My mom ran a catering business for a very long time, and now is a middle school foods teacher. I grew up around, surrounded by, […]

558: Long Day Dinner

What’s your go-to, long-day dinner? Full episode script We’ve talked a lot about food and cooking in previous episodes — Episodes 107, 297, 331, and more. I could opine for years about the importance and value of and philosophical awesomeness of food. But sometimes, after a long day and when we’re just tired and hungry, […]

519: Dieting

Have you ever gone on a diet? Full episode script Body size and it’s supposed connection to health isn’t a new thing in the world, but it has been a particular obsession in the Western World for the last hundred years or so. Quoting extensively from a Slate article by Harriet Brown: Weight inched its […]

497: Cooked

How often do you cook? Full episode script Food and cooking is something we’ve talked about several times over the last several hundred episodes. We’ve got at least three other episodes that discuss the emotional labor of meal prep, the amount of time being spent cooking, and how we tend to choose the food that […]

406: Breakfast

Do you eat breakfast? Show notes and links: Time.com AusFoodNews.com NYTimes.com Full episode script Studying breakfast is practically a cottage industry. It’s also one of the most-studied meals of the day, it appears, because there’s a huge amount of research out there. That research, much like a lot of pop research out there, is not […]

362: Hunting

Are you a hunter, or would you hunt? Show notes and links: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0534179223/qid%3D1115082815/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/104-9963295-2217567 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/the180/canada-china-fipa-sorta-separatists-incentive-pay-for-teachers-ethics-of-hunting-1.2868714/food-fight-is-it-more-ethical-to-eat-meat-if-you-kill-the-animal-yourself-1.2868708 Hunting for Wildlife Population Control and Ethical Eating? https://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583

356: Fasting

Do you fast? Why or why not? Show notes and links: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104240746 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680567 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/01/526069419/fasting-studies-clash-with-our-desire-to-eat-what-we-want-when-we-want-it http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/five-day-fasting-diet-could-fight-disease-slow-aging http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/02/Fasting-Chart.aspx

339: Tasty Choices

How do you choose the food you eat? Show notes and links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12737008 http://www.foodinsight.org/press-releases/survey-nutrition-information-abounds-many-doubt-food-choices http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12680704