130 - Mark Schatzker - The Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

General

Visit Mark’s website, where you can find out more information about his books, including how to purchase them: https://www.markschatzker.com/

Follow Mark on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/markschatzker

References

Mark’s paper, co-authored with Jeffrey Brunstrom, on micronutrients and food choice:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666322001465

Timestamps

0:00 Opening and introduction.

2:02 Mark reads a passage from his book ‘The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well’.

5:20 Pellagra and how it differently influenced American and Italian cuisine and understandings of food.

15:08 ‘Delicious’/‘hyper-palatable’ food v deeply pleasurable eating experiences.

20:00 Micronutrients, food choice, and our innate nutritional wisdom.

39:33 A critique of the keto diet.

42:33 The set point theory of weight: how the brain deals with food. And why it is perilous to meddle with this process.

50:43 If set point theory is correct, why don’t people stay in a certain weight range all their lives?

58:19 Does the example of northern Italian food culture really support Mark’s theory? Iona challenges Mark’s ideas further with counterexamples.

1:10:00 Mark’s response and further discussion.

1:23:28 The lingering ghost of behaviourism and why we require a more sophisticated approach to the brain and its relationship with food.

1:30:23 Last words and outro.