If you look at surveys conducted by the American Psychological Association on stress,

these surveys are called stress in America.

What they report is that a lot of people overeat

when they feel stressed.

And it's actually not universal some people

under eat some people overeat but more people tend to overeat and that's

particularly true for women actually women are more susceptible on

average than men to stress overeating and yeah so this is this is a big deal so

why do we do that?

What's up my friend? My name is Ted Rice and you're listening to the Legendary Life

podcast. As you know my wife and I have been traveling the world for the past year.

Today I'm coming to you from Changmy Thailand, where I've been for the past four months,

but I only have a week to go because in a week I'm going to Bali Indonesia and I'm super

excited to go there to eat some Jajan Pissar and to watch some Balinese Lagong dances and all the incredible offerings that Bali has to share.

And I can't wait to share it with you.

But right now, I've got a week left here super excited to bring today's episode to you.

This might be the last episode I do before I get on that plane to a new exotic destination in Southeast Asia. So today I've got Stefan Guillane and Stefan, if you don't know, he's a neurobiologist who's, uh, who specializes in studying obesity, what causes obesity?

And very recently, he went on the Joe Rogan show to debate Gary

Tobs and if you don't know Gary Toms is Gary wrote good calories bad calories he's

written a bunch of other books and he went on to debate Gary

about the true cause of obesity.

Now I'll tell you, Gary is the smartest person I've ever talked to when it comes to understanding the mechanisms

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