371: We used to eat 6,000 types of plants—now we only eat 9 | Award-winning food journalist Dan Saladino

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dan Saladino: “Just 3 species of plants provide more than 50% of the world's calories.” Saladino, an award-winning food journalist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the link between biodiversity and nutrition, plus: - Why our diets only contain 9 species of plants (~02:50) - What drives a lack of crop diversity (~07:28) - The most endangered foods & what it means for your nutrition (~13:14) - How your relationship with food affects your health (~23:13) - How to support biodiversity in the food system (~26:05) Referenced in the episode: - Saladino's book, Eating To Extinction. - Read more about farmed vs. wild salmon. - Read more about the Hadza and their hunter-gatherer lifestyle. - A study on the diverse gut microbiomes of Hadza hunter-gatherers. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Dan Seladino is a renowned food journalist who has worked at the
0:51.9	BBC for 25 years. For more than a decade, he's traveled the world recording stories of foods
0:59.5	at risk of extinction. And he's here to chat about that very important subject today in his
1:06.1	must-read book, Eating to Extinction, the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them.
1:15.3	Dan, welcome. Thanks for having me, Jason. It's great to have you. The book is a great book.
1:21.4	It is such an important book. It is a critical book given what's going on in the world. You know,
1:26.4	the title again is Eating to Extinction, the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them. And
1:33.0	we do need to save them. And so look at your prolific writer, you're an award-winning journalist.
1:39.4	What led you down this path? Why this book? You could have written lots of other
1:43.8	books, but why this book? Well, the reason is that I fell in love with the stories.
1:50.3	I had traveled to Sicily back in 2007. And I was there to make a radio program about
2:00.2	the Cypher's Harvest. And it was going to be a celebratory program and meeting lots of farmers.
2:07.2	But when I arrived, I was told by many of these farmers that the fruit that they had
2:12.6	been growing in their ancestors for a thousand years, it was going to be the last harvest
2:17.5	for many of them. And I also went to a meal that evening after having that conversation. And
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