We’ve Lost It: The Diet Episode

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Diet dreams are splashed across magazine covers and blare from the T.V., offering tips and tricks, that will, readers and viewers are promised, make weight loss easy and fast. Diet books making similar claims can be found at the top of the best-seller list without fail, every January. But where does this obsession with losing weight to reach some kind of idealized body type come from? How long have gurus and doctors alike made millions from the West’s preoccupation with the “d” word, and why do strange fads such as chewing each bite hundreds of times stick around for centuries? This episode, we explore the history of diets, before asking a scientist: Does anything actually work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He can sweeten sour, southern fried or cacciaturi.
0:02.4	Spaghetti, rabbi, yoli, amezetti, maca-ron.
0:04.8	This delay of the shock-fracking.
0:06.4	Oh, now what a high-forgotten!
0:08.0	Great watches!
0:10.1	This is living!
0:11.6	Oh, yeah.
0:12.8	This is living indeed.
0:14.6	It's January, and that's the time of year
0:16.5	that many people decide they want a reboot.
0:18.9	Time to start a new project to take on new goals.
0:21.4	And one of those age-old, evergreen resolutions is, yes, to lose weight.
0:25.8	But this is Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food
0:28.7	through the lens of science and history.
0:30.5	So we're not here to give you diet tips.
0:32.9	I'm Nikola Twilly, and I'm Cynthia Graber.
0:35.2	We are, of course, all about food.
0:37.3	But this episode we're going to take a closer look
0:39.5	at where our obsession with avoiding food comes from.
0:42.5	Like, when did we start thinking that you were somehow a better person
0:45.9	if you were thin and avoided certain foods?
0:48.3	As it happens, this is not a recent idea.
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