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Okay, here's today's show.

How does food affect our mood and how does our mood affect what we choose to eat and

how we experience that flavor because flavor happens and is created in the brain.

That is Mary Beth Albright.

She's a reporter and editor at the post.

And for a long time, she's had this interest in the link between food and mood.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Mary Beth, like many of us, found her relationship with food

changing.

What I began to realize is that food and emotions are inextricably entwined and we can either

get to know this and the biology and the connection and how to use it or we can deny the reality

of it and just say, like, oh, I don't want to emotionally eat when really the science

shows that all eating is emotional eating.

And what Mary Beth realized is if you can embrace this fact that food and emotion are fundamentally

linked and you can harness that to transform your life.

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