What if your struggle with food isn’t a personal failing, but the result of a system designed to confuse you? Today we unpack the real reasons eating has become SO tricky. We get back into your grandma's kitchen to find out when diet culture snuck in, hear how food companies are engineering addictive foods & convincing you they're healthy, plus we ask in all this noise - is Ozempic the answer? Along the way, you’ll hear from food historians, Pulitzer prize winning journalists and medical experts including Prof Marion Nestle, Michael Moss, Christy Harrison, Nick Fuller, and food historian Dr Lauren Samuelsson as we trace the forces shaping what (and how) we eat. 💡 Some big questions we dig into: <ul data-start="805" data-end="1145"> <li data-start="805" data-end="875"> Why is food tied to morality (and how that started 2,000 years ago) </li> <li data-start="876" data-end="945"> How did 1970s diet culture and convenience food rewire our appetites </li> <li data-start="876" data-end="945">Why do some foods feel like you just can't put them down</li> <li data-start="946" data-end="1024"> What the food industry doesn’t want you to know about nutrition “research" </li> <li data-start="1073" data-end="1145"> Whether GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are the breakthrough they claim to be </li> </ul> 🎧 Featuring: 🔬 Prof Marion Nestle on how food companies influence what we believe about health → <a class="cursor-pointer" href="http://foodpolitics.com/" target= "_new" rel="noopener" data-start="1251" data-end= "1300">foodpolitics.com</a> 📚 Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <a class="cursor-pointer" href= "https://bookshop.org/p/books/salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us-michael-moss/10826495" target="_new" rel="noopener" data-start="1357" data-end= "1472">Salt Sugar Fat</a> & <a href= "https://bookshop.org/p/books/hooked-food-free-will-and-how-the-food-giants-exploit-our-addictions-michael-moss/15888444"> Hooked</a> 🧠 Christy Harrison, dietitian and journalist behind <a class= "cursor-pointer" href= "https://bookshop.org/p/books/anti-diet-reclaim-your-time-money-well-being-and-happiness-through-intuitive-eating-christy-harrison/11344942" data-start="1666" data-end="1819">Anti-Diet</a> & <a class="cursor-pointer" href= "https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-wellness-trap-break-free-from-diet-culture-disinformation-and-health-fears-christy-harrison/18905991" data-start="1822" data-end="1978">The Wellness Trap</a> 💉 Dr Nick Fuller from <a class="cursor-pointer" href= "https://www.intervalweightloss.com.au/" data-start="2008" data-end="2070">Interval Weight Loss</a> on what GLP-1s like Ozempic actually do 📖 Dr Lauren Samuelsson, food historian, on how The Women’s Weekly helped define our relationship to food → <a class="cursor-pointer" href= "https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/lauren_samuelsson" data-start= "2227" data-end="2295">UOW profile</a> If you’ve ever wondered why eating feels so fraught or whether you can ever truly trust your hunger again this episode is for you. And if it resonated? Hit follow, send it to your group chat, and know that every share is a tiny act of resistance against unqualified men with microphones.  📬 Want to get in touch? Email: edwina @ edstott.com Follow on Instagram: <a class="" href= "https://www.instagram.com/thatshelpfulpod" target="_new" rel= "noopener" data-start="2837" data-end= "2898">@biglifequestionspod</a>

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