339: One Plant-Based Meal Per Day with Suzy Amis Cameron
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the internet will explode with searches for the best diets, which yield all kinds of good, bad, and absurd advice for getting healthy and fit. Vegetarians duke it out with Paleo people, macrobiotics argue with raw foodists, and the cycle goes on and on with no obvious winner.
Even with the best intentions, 92 to 98 percent of diets fail in the long term, and by Valentine’s Day, most people have abandoned their resolutions for the eating habits they’ve always had.
So what’s a person to do? Well, what do you want to do? What will be important to you in the coming year when it comes to your diet?
Food is complex and deeply personal. It’s a question of culture, tradition, environmental concerns, ethical questions, and socioeconomic status. Over the years, I’ve become much less interested in what to eat and more obsessed with how to eat. I’ve seen people eat and live well on all kinds of diets—and no diet at all.
On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet actor, activist, and plant-based advocate Suzy Amis Cameron, who endorses a very moderate ‘one plant-based meal a day’ approach. Whether you’re a hardcore meat eater or a die-hard veg-head, it’s valuable to experiment, reevaluate your assumptions, and find a balanced diet that works for you.
Listen & Learn:
- How Suzy founded MUSE, the only solar-powered, organic, plant-based school
- Why hope is not a strategy
- How our current food system is broken (by anyone’s standards)
- How a move away from animal agriculture seems inevitable
- Why a ‘one meal a day’ approach can be an interesting way to experiment with new diets and foods
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ABOUT THE HOST
Suzy Amis Cameron is an environmental advocate, the mother of five, and the author of OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet.
She is also a founder of Plant Power Task Force and a number of other environmental and ethical organizations. In 2005, she founded MUSE School, a 100 percent solar-powered, zero-waste school with an organic, plant-based lunch program, in Calabasas, California.
Suzy has produced documentaries and serves on several nonprofit boards. As an actor, she has been featured in more than 25 films, including The Usual Suspects and Titanic.
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| 0:00.0 | New Year's Eve is right around the corner and what happens this time of the year |
| 0:09.2 | is people start thinking about New Year's resolutions and the moment the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve |
| 0:16.6 | the Diet frenzy begins. Literally all the big book publishers have books teed up |
| 0:22.1 | for the 1st of January. All of the big news and media sites |
| 0:26.5 | are ready to release new content, top 10 lists, click bait and all of the usual |
| 0:31.4 | suspects. And off we go into another manic season of dieting. |
| 0:35.0 | It starts January 1st and it usually goes until |
| 0:38.0 | basically Valentine's Day until mid-February somewhere around there. |
| 0:42.0 | And here's what we know about dieting. mid-February somewhere around there. |
| 0:42.5 | And here's what we know about dieting. |
| 0:44.8 | Doesn't matter if you look at the World Health Organization, |
| 0:47.2 | the CDC, independent research, universities, |
| 0:50.8 | wherever you look, 92 to 98 percent of diets fail long term. |
| 0:55.0 | And when I say long term, I'm talking about within the first year, and when I say |
| 0:59.0 | fail, I mean if someone set out on January 1st to lose 10 pounds by the end of that year they have lost no weight |
| 1:05.4 | and in fact many times they've actually gained weight by the end of that calendar year. |
| 1:09.8 | In fact one of the biggest predictors of weight gain long term is dieting. |
| 1:15.0 | Super ironic, but your desire to lose weight, your best intentions to lose weight usually |
| 1:20.9 | backfire in the same way that people who drink diet soda |
| 1:24.2 | sugar-free soda are much more likely to have diabetes and weight gain as well. |
| 1:28.5 | None of this stuff works. It's really, really frustrating because obviously weight is a huge issue all around the world as countries develop |
| 1:36.6 | So do their waistlines it happens very predictably everywhere. So what do we do? Well the typical thing is that on January 1st you'll see it |
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