170: Author and Podcaster Shawn Stevenson on Why The Smartest and Healthiest Way to Eat is At Home and With Family

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Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Humans have a complicated relationship with food. What was once a harmonious exchange of hard work (hunting and gathering), nutrition, and social interaction has now become a whirlwind of fast food and eating in isolation. But as today’s guest, Shawn Stevenson explains in his new book, Eat Smarter Family Cookbook, eating healthy can be simpler and way more fun than you’ve ever imagined! Shawn is a renowned author, speaker, and podcast host with a background in science and biology, and we...

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0:00.0	I asked him since he said that he's been doing this for 25 years, 26 years actually.
0:08.0	I asked with the survivability of this treatment, it would really help my mom's mental health if you could share some case studies of people that have gone through
0:16.6	chemotherapy and radiation since you've been doing this with patients for 25 years
0:20.2	because the survivability benchmark is five years like this is how they
0:24.3	manipulate numbers and I was just like if you could just share a couple case studies that
0:28.4	would be great and maybe even my mom she could talk to somebody's going through the
0:30.8	treatment that's alive and well today that would be awesome.
0:33.9	And he's like actually I have a patient who's going through her last
0:37.1	treatment today would love to talk to your mom. I was like no no no no no not
0:39.4	not somebody in the treatment now but somebody that is going through the treatment who's around five years later and he laughed
0:46.6	uncomfortably this is true story because I'd have to look at my old notes from
0:51.5	my practice back in Montana. He's in Missouri now and he couldn't bring one person to mind that he's put through the treatment that's alive that my mom can talk to.
1:08.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified with as their mission.
1:18.3	And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.
1:31.6	And someone who has been prolific in his work is my
1:34.7	friend author speaker and podcaster Sean Stevenson who wrote the best-selling books
1:40.4	sleep smarter and eat smarter. I originally interviewed Sean back on episode
1:46.1	number 27 and that's when we really got deep into his entire backstory of growing up in
1:51.4	St. Louis and being diagnosed at the age of 20 with advanced backstory of
1:53.7	growing up in St. Louis and being diagnosed at the age of 20 with advanced arthritic condition of his spine
1:57.3	and being told that he had low bone density and he was essentially tiptoeing his way into obesity.
2:05.4	Granted at the time Sean was eating fast food 300 plus days a year and the doctors
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