Super Soul Special: Michael Pollan: Conscious Eating

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Original Air Date: July 9, 2018 New York Times best-selling author and food expert Michael Pollan discusses our evolving relationship with food, what it means to eat with a fuller consciousness and how having a heightened awareness of the food that goes into our bodies can improve our physical and spiritual well-being. Michael says that food is an important link to other people, from those we dine with to those who produce what we eat. In light of that connection, Michael says mealtime is an opportunity to express what we believe in and learn about others' values as well. He says his awakening about the deeper meaning of food came about in the garden, a place he says has taught him many life lessons. Michael was named one of Newsweek magazine's Top 10 "New Thought Leaders" and Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World." Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:24.0	One of the world's foremost food experts, Michael Pollan,
0:28.0	challenges us to really look at the things we so often overlook,
0:32.0	like the food on our plates, or the plants that surround us.
0:35.8	A master of unlocking the mysteries of nature.
0:38.7	Michael has written seven books including five New York Times bestsellers.
0:43.5	He's also been named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
0:48.5	His brilliant 2006 work, The Omnivores' dilemma, opened our eyes in a whole new way.
0:55.0	Michael looked at four meals and asked one simple question,
0:58.6	where exactly does our food come from?
1:02.1	From the elegant simplicity of food rules
1:04.7	to the spiritual journey of his latest book, Cooked.
1:07.7	Stepping into Michael's mind,
1:08.9	you won't look at your food the same way again.
1:11.9	Okay, so you're a journalist, you're an author,
1:14.5	you're a professor and activist who's,
1:17.5	you know, now the voice when it comes to conscious eating.
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