Welcome to Be Eat to Live podcast. Today we are going to be discussing health and happiness.

So I've invited a new guest. Can I get a drum roll please? Dr. Furman, the philosopher.

And we are going to talk about how nutrition plays a role in our overall

happiness and new strategies to make you the happiest you can possibly be in this life. Now,

this is a topic I feel very passionately about that we do not discuss nearly enough as a society,

and I'm so happy. That's funny, that's funny,

I'm happy. I'm so happy to have the opportunity to really bring it to people's attention,

that this is important. Our emotional health contributes to our overall health. So we are going to

get down to business and discover new ways and ideas to be even happier in this life.

Let's get to it.

So me and my dad were talking, we learned that pets make people really happy.

So, Dad, do you want to take it away and inform our listeners of some news?

Yeah, we were excited we have a new member of our family. We added a new pet for our new daughter. I must say dog, but she's also a dog. But she's now 12 weeks old. Today's a 12-weekth birthday. We got her when she was eight weeks old, so she was nine pounds, and now she's 26 pounds. In the last month, she gained over 15 pounds. But in any case, she's a Boceran. It's a French breed that gets very big. So it looks a little like a doberman, but a little bit more muscular. And she's got, and she might probably be around 80 pounds, we think, because we saw her mother was a pretty big dog. Anyway, so we're excited about that she's very trainable, very smart and so far, you know, doing really great. We have a lot of fun with her. Her name is Rain, and we love her very, very much. So we are all very excited that we have a new member of our family. But to kick off this podcast, why don't we talk about the problem? We're going to start off with the problem. And kind of when we were

briefing for this episode, we raised a lot of problems and questions around health and how we

are raised from a very long, young age. So, Dad, you were telling me that really we're taught

to focus on food and be very competitive since birth. So why don't you go into what you

were telling me? I put a lot of thought into this, the fact that why people have so much

difficulty eating healthfully and why they're so addicted and their behavior is so self-destructive.

You know, everybody knows it's they're eating unhealthy. They know they should be eating vegetables. They don't want to. And how could they self-destruct themselves? You know, how can they destroy themselves with the diet they're eating and cause all these medical problems, even death? And just go on. There's so much recidivism and people learn about healthy eating and can't do it, won't do it, won't do it, don't want to do it, and so much resistance to it. So put a lot of thought

into this. And so let's, we're going to go over with that today. And so it starts, of course,

when you're born, when we're babies, because the socialization process in this country is such

that having a bigger, larger baby is more favorably looked on by others, an asset to what parents. So you start out by

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