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Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton.

Outside of acting, my two favorite things to do are diet and eat.

I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast we're going to talk about all of it.

Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person just like you and me.

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My guest today is Maryl Hemingway.

She is a health advocate who has spent a lifetime studying how mental and physical health are linked.

She's also an author, film and television producer, an unstoppable voice in the ever changing conversation around living a healthier, more meaningful life.

We're also joined by her longtime partner, Bobby Williams, who adds a lot of insight into everything we discuss.

You can find her on Instagram at Maryl Hemingway.

Maryl, you have been interested in nutrition and health for a long time. What started that?

It's interesting. I think that I started really because I was trying to survive my family dynamic.

I think that I thought if I can control food and exercise and this and that, then I can control everything that happens in my brain.

Because I come from a pretty unstable family. I mean, like we all do. We all come from whatever we come from.

But I had some, you know, there was alcoholism and drug abuse and a mother with cancer, a father with heart disease.

And I was so, I watched my sisters were that much older than me.

Seven years, Margot was seven years older than me.

And my older sisters still live as 11 years older than me. And I watched them and I thought I'm not going to do that.

So I thought in my very, very early on when I was like 14 years old, if I can control what I put into my mouth and how much I exercise.

I mean, it became obsessive. I did things that were crazy. You know, I did too much of things.

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