Matt Fitzgerald: Diet Cults
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Matt Fitzgerald — author of Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us — stops by discuss the “scientific schtick” lying at the foundation of today’s popular diets.
Here's what we talked about:
6:05 – How we got from diet culture to diet cults … and what your diet says about who you are.
10:05 – A final answer on “the one best diet.” What evolution has to do with it all and why we may be more adaptable than we think.
19:10 – The BIG problem with Paleo.
22:13 – How diets might be hurting more than helping, and why you should ask “how much” and “what kind” first.
26:04 – Getting to the bottom of “Gluten free is B.S.” Is gluten really guilty or just a scapegoat?
30:01 – What stress, genetics and childhood traumas might have to do with autoimmune disease.
36:17 – The 3 things all successful weight losers (and maintainers) have in common. Plus, the one thing that will turn weight loss from hard into easy.
41:08 – Matt’s personal recipe for staying lean and why dieting without exercise is pointless.
46:54 – Why following rules instead of diets can help you keep your health in check.
51:00 – Staying sane in the health game and why “happy” may be more important than “healthy”.
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 315 of Underground Wellness Radio. Here is what's coming up. |
| 0:05.0 | People make diets. We don't need new diets. And I know paleo presents itself as an old diet, |
| 0:09.9 | but it's not. It's pretty much the newest diet in history. You know, gluten's probably a scapegoat. |
| 0:15.1 | And we need to look deeper for some sort of fundamental cause for why so many people are getting sick. |
| 0:21.2 | Exercise is a part of my lifestyle. |
| 0:24.1 | So it is a part of my recipe for staying lean. |
| 0:27.8 | So if you remove that, then I don't stay lean. |
| 0:31.1 | You know, I really don't think that's correct. |
| 0:35.6 | Here we go. |
| 0:47.0 | Yo, what's up, y'all? |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio, |
| 0:51.7 | brought to you by Underground Wellness.com. |
| 0:52.2 | Of course. |
| 0:58.2 | I am your host, Sean Croxton. And this show is interesting. |
| 1:03.8 | It was definitely a learning experience. It's with Matt Fitzgerald, who's the author of Diet Colts, |
| 1:07.5 | which is a really, really good book. I seriously could not put it down. You'll hear more about that in a second. But it was a learning experience because, you know, this past year or so I've been really studying interviewing. Like I want to be one of the best interviewers out there. So I like, I watch people interview. I listen to people interview like I study it, right? And I remember back in the day, people would email me, like listeners would email me and be like, hey, Sean, you had such and such on the show. And I know that you did not agree with what they were saying. Why did you let that ride? Why didn't you jump in and say anything? I'd be like, oh, well, it's not really my job to debate with my guest. And, you know, there's just a platform for them to say whatever they need to say. And it's up to the listener to decide whether or not they agree or they disagree, whether or not they want to implement it or not implement it. And, you know, lately I've been kind of jumping in when I don't agree with stuff, but this show, I didn't agree with a lot, right? It was a really, really, really good book, but there's just stuff in there that I just was not feeling and stuff |
| 2:01.1 | that Matt said during this interview that I just was not feeling either. But it's weird because |
| 2:05.5 | there is that fine line between respectfully disagreeing and then being argumentative. You know, |
| 2:12.8 | and I never want to be that interview where someone says, you know, this interview is over, right? I never want that to happen. And I, you know, I like to argue. I'll be honest, as you may have heard in the last show, like I wanted to be an attorney, right? And so arguing is kind of my thing. I have fun with that. And so I'm sitting here or standing here doing this interview with Matt. And I'm like, whoa, am I, am I doing too much right now? |
| 2:34.6 | And so I kind of had to reel myself back in, but it just really taught me in this show how to |
| 2:40.8 | disagree, how to be respectful, and how to not let things like get out of hand. |
| 2:46.1 | Or maybe it's just all in my head. |
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