How Our Minds Are Being Hacked, And What We Can Do About It (RECAST)

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Due to some technical difficulties, we are recasting the episode where Dr. Robert Lustig joins us in the studio to talk about his new book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.” Dr. Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist who is also author of the book “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease.” He talks to us about how corporate interests have worked to keep us addicted to pleasure—and how our addictions have robbed us of happiness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Upgrade listeners, it's Alice.
0:02.3	We were going to give you a new episode this week.
0:05.0	It was going to be great.
0:06.2	It was going to be the best.
0:07.9	We had some technical issues, and instead we're going to give you one of our old favorites,
0:13.0	how to protect your mind from being hacked with Dr. Robert Lustig.
0:17.4	We will be back next week with a brand spanking new episode just for you.
0:22.7	Thanks.
0:36.2	Hello, and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:44.5	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:47.1	And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.
0:49.9	And today we're talking about how our minds are being hacked and what we can do about it.
0:54.9	We'll be talking to Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist who's probably best known for the viral video of a lecture he gave called Sugar, The Bitter Truth, about the damage caused by sugary foods.
1:07.1	He's the author of the book Fat Chance, Be the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and
1:12.6	disease, as well as the new book, The Hacking of the American Mind, the Science Behind the Corporate
1:18.1	Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.
1:20.2	And we are getting sicker and stupider and fatter and broke.
1:27.6	Okay, Alice.
1:28.8	So it's September.
1:30.6	We'll know what that means.
1:31.9	Yeah, Apple Event.
1:33.0	Yes.
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