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Cheese - Transforming Milk into Delicious
Episode 137
Cheese: Humanity's Greatest Delicious Accident
What if one of the world's favorite foods happened by accident?
That's probably how cheese began.
Nobody …
2 months, 1 week ago
Bread Built Civilization
Episode 136
For years, bread has been the villain of social media.
Scroll for a few minutes, and you'll find someone telling you bread causes obesity, diabetes, i…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Soup: The Mediterranean Diet in a Bowl
Episode 135
Soup: The Mediterranean Diet in a Bowl
Over the past few weeks, many of us have been looking at our refrigerators a little differently. News about Cyc…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How Cooking Made Us Human
Episode 134
Fire didn't just change dinner. It changed us.
If I asked you what made us human, you might say language. Or tools. Maybe agriculture. All of those ch…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Bank of Muscle: Your Retirement Account Isn't Your 401(k)
Episode 133
The Bank of Muscle: Why Your Real Retirement Account Isn't Your 401(k)
I used to think retirement planning was all about money. Put enough away, let c…
3 months ago
Did the Food Pyramid Make America Fat?
Episode 132
If you read some low-carb sites, or Gary Taub's books, you will find the contention that the food pyramid - the last one being in 2011 - put America …
3 months, 1 week ago
The Scientists Who Built the Modern Snack
Episode 131
How We Eat
Most of us think we know what we eat. However, nutrition researchers have learned a frustrating lesson over the years: asking people what t…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Taste Buds Everywhere: Your Body's Hidden Food Sensors
Episode 130
Taste Isn't What You Think It Is
Most people believe taste happens on the tongue. That idea seems obvious because food enters the mouth, the tongue re…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure
Episode 129
Type 2 Diabetes, Bariatric Surgery, Fasting, and GLP-1s: What We Finally Learned About a Disease We Thought We Understood
For years, I watched somethi…
4 months ago
The Science of Hangovers: Why Most “Cures” Fail
Episode 128
The Science of Hangovers: Why Your “Cure” Probably Doesn’t Work
You wake up thirsty.
Then, almost immediately, you realize your head hurts. Your stomac…
4 months, 1 week ago