How to Fuel Up

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Food trends are constantly changing, so can people commit to a long-term nutrition practice? Kera Nyemb-Diop says yes. She is a nutrition scientist focused on breaking down the “rules” of what people think they should eat and focusing instead on being responsive to how our needs change over the course of a life. Co-hosts Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan reconsider their own food habits and which practices are worth hanging on to for the long haul. How do you think about aging? Please leave us a voicemail (at 202-266-7701) with your name, your age, and your answers to the following questions: What aspects of aging are you nervous about? What are you looking forward to as you age? Who do you hope to be like when you are older? Is there someone in your life who has made you excited about getting older? Leaving a voicemail means that you are consenting to the possibility of The Atlantic using your audio in a future episode of How To. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I just saw a video last week that I couldn't even tell if it was satire or not.
0:07.4	They were freezing cottage cheese curds, freezing them, and calling it protein dip in dots.
0:17.3	That's got to be a joke.
0:18.9	I mean, we can only hope.
0:21.4	I need to know how high cottage cheese sales are up.
0:26.1	Could you look that up?
0:29.8	Okay.
0:30.7	In the past five years, cottage cheese sales are up more than 50%.
0:35.2	50%.
0:36.4	That is so much cottage cheese.
0:41.7	I'm Yasmin Tayag, a staff writer with The Atlantic.
0:45.5	And I'm Natalie Brennan, producer at the Atlantic.
0:49.6	This is How to Age Up.
0:55.0	Okay, Natalie, have you fallen for any food trends?
0:59.0	All of them.
1:00.7	All of them.
1:02.1	I've tried basically everything except for prayer.
1:08.0	I was plant-based.
1:09.8	Now I'm eating ground turkey like it's my job. I had a kombucha phase. I'm desperately
1:17.3	worried about my gut health. And I did start buying a brand of oat milk with no seed oils, I fear.
1:25.0	Oh, girl. Not the seed oils.
1:28.6	I've been writing about them so much in my coverage of food and health at the Atlantic.
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