How to Eat, With Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Forget paleo, keto, and intermittent fasting—we’re getting to the truth of how you really should be eating this week with Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz. Their latest book is called How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered, and in this episode they discuss the importance of using both science and common sense when it comes to our consumption.
Mark is a leading voice in the food world, having written over 30 books on the topic, including the New York Times bestseller How to Cook Everything. Dr. Katz is the founding director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, as well as the founder and president of the True Health Initiative.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of |
| 0:22.0 | Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're learning how to eat |
| 0:27.5 | properly. We are busting diet myths and getting down to the scientific truth of how we should |
| 0:32.4 | actually be eating. And spoiler alert, it's not the ketogenic diet or intermittent fasting. |
| 0:38.6 | Nope, nor is it the Atkins diet, Whole 30, or South Beach. |
| 0:42.2 | To help us figure out what healthy eating actually is, we're joined by New York Times best-selling |
| 0:47.2 | author Mark Bittman and Dr. David Katz, founder and president of the True Health Initiative. |
| 0:52.8 | I don't understand how the popularity of a diet for rapid weight loss |
| 0:57.1 | can be so blinkered that it actually divorces itself from what it will do to the planet at large. |
| 1:03.5 | So I... |
| 1:04.0 | Does that really surprise you considering society's emphasis on being slim? |
| 1:09.4 | Mark is a former food journalist for the New York Times and has written over 30 books, including |
| 1:13.7 | How to Cook Everything. |
| 1:15.5 | Mark currently serves as the special advisor on food policy at Columbia University's |
| 1:20.0 | Mailman School of Public Health. |
| 1:22.2 | And Dr. Katz is the founding director of Yale University's Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center. |
| 1:28.4 | In addition to overseeing the True Health Initiative, he is the founder and CEO of Diet ID Inc. Mark and David co-authored, |
| 1:35.6 | All your food and diet questions answered. Hey, Alice. Yes, Melissa. Have you ever been on any |
| 1:41.5 | wacky diets? I haven't done like like a diet like the kind of thing you do |
| 1:47.7 | for one week to kind of get rid of the five pounds you've gained or whatever but i've done |
| 1:53.6 | um paleo i did that for a few years which i guess is a diet mm-hmmhmm. And? You know, I really liked it for a while. |
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