Is hanger real? Can food affect a negotiation? Does who I'm eating with change the flavor of my meal? Food Journalist Mary Beth Albright presents decades of evidence showing that eating affects how you feel. She turns science into one practical action you can take this week to improve your mood through food--including focusing on what brings you pleasure. From the pages of The Washington Post and National Geographic to wherever you get podcasts, an indispensable podcast for everyone who eats.
Food additives are everywhere in ultra-processed food, and some may cause serious damage
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24 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT
Culinary medicine and why Diets are great but diets are bad
Nutritionist Dr. Deb Kennedy joins the podcast today for a chat about feeding yourself for emotional well-being.
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10 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT
Blood sugar: the next frontier
Monitoring blood sugar for emotional well-being will be the next big conversation when over-the-counter monitors that connect with phones become available this summer.
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3 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT
Do little rituals increase pleasure?
If you can't eat a sandwich cookie without twisting it apart first, this one's for you.
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27 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT
Why does wine taste better on vacation?
The Destination Wine phenomenon--that a drink tastes better when consumed on vacation than it does when consumed at home--may sound like a Champagne problem. But it tells us a lot about how flavor is created in the brain.
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6 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT
Food pleasure at SXSW
Pleasure, Ozempic, and new research on ultra-processed foods
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28 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
The Feast Paradox
People who eat communally have better health outcomes and greater bonding with others around the table
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21 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
Are you a chewer or a smoosher?
Are you a chewer or a smoosher? Your tongue print can be as important to food enjoyment as what you eat.
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14 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
How food changes thoughts
Changing breakfast changes behavior, in a study showing that nutrients have a measurable effect on how we feel about inequality.
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7 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
Hanger is Real
Hunger is an existential pain: it evolved alongside feelings of anger, probably to make sure we eat enough to survive.
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31 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT
Gut Microbiome & Emotional Well-Being for Non-Scientists
The call is coming from inside the house! Your gut microbiome is a non-human community living inside your digestive tract and what you eat--what you feed it--can determine your emotional well-being.
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24 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT
New Year, Same You
Forget about before and after photos--we are, at all times, in progress
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20 Dec 2023
That doesn't LOOK like my burger: 2023's biggest food news
From AI-generated menu photos to Vegan Reese's to Italians defending meat (and, yes, to Ozempic), review 2023's food news in 20 minutes.
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13 Dec 2023
Why holiday cookies taste better
Three science-backed reasons that December cookies have a nostalgic pull on our taste buds and brains
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6 Dec 2023
The Hailey Bieber Smoothie: How names affect flavor
The Hailey Bieber Smoothie at Erewhon is flat-out delicious, a creamy and thick non-dairy milkshake. But how much deliciousness comes from the actual taste, vs. the Erewhon's gorgeous setting vs. Bieber's gorgeous face? A look at what science calls the transferred deliciousness of the elite and wealthy the "contagion effect."
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29 Nov 2023
Ultra-processed Food and Emotional Well Being
New studies link ultra-processed food with poor mental health outcomes. But about 60% of americans' diet come from UPF so avoiding it altogether is nearly impossible. This episode had guidelines and what you need to know. (And what exactly are UPF anyway?)
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22 Nov 2023
3 Tips for Eating During a Stressful Week
Food ghosts, travel, and judgy relatives. It's Thanksgiving week in America--here are three things to focus on when eating for emotional well-being during a stressful week. Plus popcorn.
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15 Nov 2023
Diet Culture
Eating for emotional well-being is the opposite of diet culture. Here's some science behind being anti-diet culture, and why you should be on our side.
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18 Oct 2023
Welcome to Eat You'll Feel Better
Is hanger real? Can food affect a negotiation? Does who I'm eating with change the flavor of my meal? Food Journalist Mary Beth Albright presents decades of evidence showing that eating affects how you feel. She turns science into one practical action you can take this week to improve your mood through food--including focusing on what brings you pleasure. From the pages of The Washington Post and National Geographic to wherever you get podcasts, an indispensable podcast for everyone who eats.
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Food Additives
Published 8 May 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Food additives have been, a lot of people have been talking about them, they've been in the news lately, so I thought we should just do like a quick overview of the science around food additives. And first, let's define it because people throw around all kinds of food terms without saying exactly what they mean, which drives me bonkers. But food additives are substances that are put in during the production of food. And it's usually during the large -scale industrial production of food. And those substances are there to enhance the final product's flavor or shelf stability or appearance, something like that. […]
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