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Something You Should Know

Why You Think You Are Smarter Than You Are & Just How Healthy Are Restaurant Meals?

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Self-improvement, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Education

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Next time you are feeling stressed or need a little reassurance there is someone you need to call - immediately! It is a very close relative of yours. This episode begins with some stress reducing advice and an explanation of why it works so well. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/12/mother-phone-call-study-us-oxytocin I think we all like to believe we know what we are talking about but a lot of times we don’t. It’s human nature apparently. We believe things that are not true and we think we are smarter than we really are according to Philip Fernbach associate professor at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder and author of a book called The Knowledge Illusion (https://amzn.to/3toAk1J). Listen as he explains why we do this and what the ramifications are for all of us.  When was the last time you used your parking lights on your car? And if you did - why? Listen as I explain why your car has parking lights in the first place, why they are likely amber colored (at least in the U.S.) and when you should never use them. https://www.infobloom.com/what-are-parking-lights.htm You might think that with so much emphasis on healthy eating that restaurants would be serving up some healthier and more nutritious food today. If you do believe that, you are wrong according to research. Dariush Mozaffarian, MD is a professor of Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief, Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter. (https://www.nutritionletter.tufts.edu/). He conducted some fascinating research into just how nutritious restaurant meals are and the findings may surprise you. If you are concerned about your health, you will want to hear what he has to say.  PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Backcountry.com is the BEST place for outdoor gear and apparel. Go to https://backcountry.com/sysk and use promo code SYSK to get 15% off your first full price purchase! Go Daddy lets you create your website or store for FREE right now at https://godaddy.com Go to https://RockAuto.com right now and see all the parts available for your car or truck. Write SOMETHING in their “How did you hear about us?” box so they know we sent you! Discover matches all the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year automatically and is accepted at 99% of places in the U.S. that take credit cards! Learn more at https://discover.com/yes Over the last 6 years, donations made at Walgreens in support of Red Nose Day have helped positively impact over 25 million kids. You can join in helping to change the lives of kids facing poverty. To help Walgreens support even more kids, donate today at checkout or at https://Walgreens.com/RedNoseDay. https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on something you should know, why you need to call your mom the next time you get stressed out.

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Then an interesting quirk of human nature that can get us in trouble, and that is, we think we're

0:46.4

smarter than we really are. In fact, for most things we know remarkably little, and yet we tend to have

0:52.9

that misperception that we understand things more deeply than we do. If I ask you how zipper works,

0:58.0

most people say, oh yeah, I know how zipper works, and then I say, okay, explain it to me and they go,

1:01.6

uh, whoops. Also, why do cars have parking lights? And the good news is we're eating healthier.

1:08.8

The bad news is not much healthier, and restaurants are a big part of the problem.

1:14.2

We are truly facing a national nutrition crisis, and we have more diet-related disease in terms

1:21.3

of obesity, type-to-die-bedeys, poor brain health and adults. There are so much diet-related

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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you

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