#227 The Benefits of Eating with Friends with Dr Rupy Aujla, Sakina Okoko and Órfhlaith Noone
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
“How to eat with friends and be healthier”
When was the last time you sat down at a dinner table and shared a meal with friends over laughter and stories?
If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to remember a time in the last couple of days. And if you’re averse to the idea of going through the effort of having to find someone to share a meal with, research shows it has benefits!
Recent studies found that regularly eating with others is linked to feeling happier, more satisfied with life and trusting of others. For children and adolescents, frequent family meals were associated with better health outcomes. But why?
We’ll talk about the evidence based reasons for the health benefits of sharing food around a table, including the evolutionary link as an adaptive benefit from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the psychological reasons as well as practical benefits!
I’ll certainly be eating with friends twice a week from now on! To talk about this topic I have researcher and science writer at Doctor’s Kitchen Sakina Okoko as well as our food producer for the DK app Órfhlaith Noone.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen Podcast, |
| 0:10.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what |
| 0:36.6 | allows you to lead your best life. Today we're going to be talking about the benefits of eating with friends. |
| 0:48.8 | I actually wanted to call this podcast episode how to eat with friends and be healthier in reference to the |
| 0:54.8 | highly renowned book how to win friends and influence people but I didn't think everyone |
| 1:00.8 | would get it anyway I wanted to start today's episode with a question for you. |
| 1:06.8 | When was the last time you sat down at a dinner table |
| 1:10.4 | and shared a meal with friends over laughter and stories. If you're lucky you'll |
| 1:15.0 | be able to remember a time in the last couple of days or the last week and if you |
| 1:19.1 | adverse to the idea of going through the effort of having to find someone to share a meal with, hopefully today's discussion of the research |
| 1:26.4 | will show you that has benefits regardless of what is actually on the table. |
| 1:32.6 | Recent studies have found that regularly eating with others |
| 1:36.2 | is linked to feelings of happiness, |
| 1:38.8 | more satisfaction with life, |
| 1:40.3 | and a trusting nature of others. For children and adolescents, frequent |
| 1:45.5 | family meals were also associated with better health outcomes. But why? |
| 1:50.1 | We'll talk about the evidence-based reasons for the health benefits of sharing food around a table, |
| 1:57.2 | including the evolutionary link as an adaptive benefit from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the psychological reasons as well as the |
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