(2013/10/03) We have an eating disorder (Food)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 October 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #760
We have an eating disorder
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Nutrition - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-29-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Ch. 4: Act 2: Are Superfoods Like Quinoa & Acai a Scam? - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 06-11-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Tonight I have to leave it - Shout out Louds
Ch. 6: Act 3: Watch this 14 Year Old GMO Activist Smackdown 'Shark Tank' Entrepreneur - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-09-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Somewhere only we know - Keane
Ch. 8: Act 4: Food Of The Future News - The Bugle - Air Date 5-24-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Sweet dreams - Marylin Manson
Ch. 10: Act 5: A Guy With An Eating Disorder - Citizen Radio - Air Date 9-4-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Send a message - Nick Driver
Ch. 12: Act 6: Supermarket Secrets - Michael Pollan - Air Date: 11-1-10
Ch. 13: Song 6: The middle - Jimmy Eat World
Ch. 14: Act 7: Disgusting Pink Slime Served In School Lunches - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-13-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Sweeter than this - Katie Herzig
Ch. 16: Act 8: Tilling our public treasury - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 10-3-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: I am not a farmer - Bill Frisell
Ch. 18: Act 9: Libertarians Want Fecal Matter In Your Burgers. Here's How... - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-18-13
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Ch. 21: Doing what's right for society than what feels right selfishly - Emma from Texas
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| 0:14.6 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the |
| 0:18.0 | Tom Hartman program, The David Pakman Show, The Majority Report, The Bugle, Citizen Radio, |
| 0:23.2 | Michael Pollan, The Young Turks, and Jim Hightower. |
| 0:26.9 | I wanted to talk to you about phytonutrients. |
| 0:31.7 | No, this isn't an infomercial. |
| 0:36.2 | Phytonutrients like anthocyanins, these are the things that are associated with purple |
| 0:44.3 | colors. |
| 0:45.3 | Find lots of them in blueberries and blue corn and stuff like that. |
| 0:52.0 | They're antioxidants, they're anti-cancer, they some of them help memory and help the |
| 0:58.1 | brain and there's just, you know, there's like good stuff in food, right? |
| 1:01.7 | And so when you think about good foods, super foods, what do you think about? |
| 1:05.5 | You think about, oh, you know, hey, fresh corn in the cob or spinach. |
| 1:14.1 | Not so much. |
| 1:15.5 | It's a really interesting piece in the New York Times over the weekend about phytonutrients, |
| 1:23.7 | nutrients that come from plants that are produced by photosynthesis and, you know, plant |
| 1:29.9 | metabolism. |
| 1:32.5 | And what they found is that when we were hunters and gatherers, I keep in mind the human |
| 1:40.9 | race appeared as the wrong word, but the earliest evidence of modern humans mutated or whatever, |
| 1:50.1 | roughly 165,000 years ago in Eastern Africa. |
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