Hello and welcome to the nutrition diva podcast I'm Monica Reinagle and today I'm

talking with registered dietician Natalie Stevens about some really interesting new research

that suggests how we can get more pleasure from the food that we eat and at the same time

avoid overeating.

Why are certain foods so easy to overeat? Some foods we can enjoy in a reasonable amount and feel satisfied but with other foods it's like we're a bottomless pit we just want to keep going even

though we know we're over indulging. Well registered dietician nutritionist

Natalie Stevens is joining me today to talk about some new research that she brought to my attention

on how our brains and bodies respond to pleasurable foods and how we can avoid overeating without having to avoid foods that we enjoy.

I'm so glad to have you on the podcast, Natalie welcome.

Thank you for having me.

This is an exciting thing to talk about.

Who doesn't like talking about enjoying our food?

Absolutely.

And this is a great time to have the conversation.

We're in the holiday season,

and there's so many opportunities to overindulge.

It's really tempting to take one of two approaches.

The first and probably most common is to live it up,

which ends up being eating as much yummy food as you can.

And I mean why not? There are so many delicious foods and you don't want to miss out.

But then there's the virtuous route that many of us also try,

where you limit yourself because you don't want to suffer the consequences.

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