Show 1295: How Delicious Flavors Shape Human Behavior (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on our nationally syndicated radio show, our topic is evolution and the role of delicious flavors. We talk with Dr. Rob Dunn, ecologist and evolutionary biologist, about how the search for food with delicious flavors as well as high nutrient content might have shaped our behavior as we evolved. How Humans Define Delicious […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com.
0:15.1	Do you have a favorite flavor?
0:17.1	Humans have been seeking out delicious foods for millennia.
0:20.6	Did that affect human evolution? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Evolutionary biologist Rob Dunn thinks we should be paying far more attention to the
0:39.4	deliciousness of food. How did flavor shape the behavior of our ancestors? Did they hunt some
0:45.8	tasty species to extinction? I'm particularly fond of Chappellini's,
0:50.9	especially if they come from Waha Mexico.
0:53.8	They're grasshoppers.
0:55.5	For many Wahaha Kenyans, they are a delicacy.
0:58.7	Our guest will tell us about the culinary culture of chimpanzees and how dinner makes us human.
1:05.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Headlines, Long COVID has another serious complication.
1:21.6	A study utilizing data from the Department of Veterans Affairs
1:25.0	analyzed records of 181,000 patients who were treated for the infection
1:30.4	between March 2020 and September 2021.
1:35.0	Those who had lingering symptoms a month after recovery were 46% more likely to get a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes later.
1:44.7	The absolute risk was two more patients out of 100.
1:48.8	That may not seem too scary, but when you calculate the millions who have developed long COVID it adds up to a
1:54.8	large number of people who may need regular testing and treatment. Even people
1:59.7	with mild to moderate COVID cases were at increased risk.
2:04.0	The results of a large dietary supplement trial called Cosmos are finally in and they're
2:10.3	encouraging.
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