Mary Beth Albright: ...you can be a person that loves food & eats for emotional well-being

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How does the food you eat impact your mental health? How can you change your diet to improve your emotional outlook? We talk about those questions with journalist and food expert Mary Beth Albright, who is the author of the new book, "EAT & FLOURISH: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.6	I'm Jan Black.
0:13.0	Our topic on this episode is food and how it affects our mental health.
0:17.4	Joining us is journalist and food expert Mary Beth Albright, who's the author of the new
0:22.1	book, Eat and Flourish, how food supports emotional well-being. Mary Beth writes about food for the
0:28.7	Washington Post, and her resume also includes being a food attorney, food judge, and finalist on
0:34.7	Food Network Star, where she competed on Iron Chef America.
0:38.7	Barry Beth, thank you so much for joining us.
0:40.9	Thank you so much.
0:42.1	Wow, you're digging deep back there for my bio.
0:44.2	I love it.
0:45.5	You have such an amazing background with food.
0:48.8	Tell us why you decided to write this book relating to how food supports our emotional well-being.
0:55.6	Yeah, and it's so important to just go back to that fundamental nugget, that food and
1:01.2	emotions are entwined. And we can get to that food-mood connection and we can know how to use
1:07.1	it, or we can label it emotional eating and just deny it. And so what I am thrilled to be
1:13.2	doing right now is bringing food and emotions together in a way that we all know anecdotally
1:20.0	they're connected, but bringing the hard science in is very important. So about 15 years ago,
1:25.2	I was at the Surgeon General's office. I was working there.
1:27.6	And I saw a study that omega-3 fatty acids have effect alleviating aggression in people.
1:38.6	And that was the first time I had seen this real hard science with micronutrients surrounding food and our behavior.
1:46.1	Because I think, Jan, do you have that experience that, you know, you're, you don't feel
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