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Hunting and Gathering Our Fast Food

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Deirdre Barrett, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, looks at where humans came from to understand how we got so fat. She is the author of Waistland: The (R)evolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2007).

Guests:

Deirdre Barrett

Comments [16]

Joe E

Certain claims by your guest were outrageous. This depiction that life amongst the hunter/gatherer's was 'playful', was comical. I checked the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st. I can't take her seriously.

"The delivery guys on the bicycles are the ones getting all the exercise." - that was funny. But this is a walking city. You can eat all the great food you want so long as you walk to your destination. NYC isn't Kansas (sorry, Kansas...).

Feb. 27 2008 01:46 AM
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Joe from New Haven CT

Wow!!!
Could hunting become the next diet fad? The "hook and bullet" industry may be really missing a big opportunity. Think "Amarican Sportsman" meets "Oprah".

Feb. 21 2008 02:55 PM
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chestine from NY

oops - i reversed my bone LOSS with dairy...

Feb. 21 2008 11:46 AM
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Bentley from Manhattan

No, but I will check it out! Thanks Chestine.

Feb. 21 2008 11:46 AM
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chestine from NY

I think Europeans will get fat with the standardized regulations happening with corporate interference. I thought of die of delicious food when i lived in the alps as a young person and ate such heavenly dairy - mmmm - but now their yogurt is full of additives just like ours.

Feb. 21 2008 11:44 AM
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MichaelB from UWS of Manhattan

We not only no longert hunt & gather or grow our own food, in NYC so many people don't even COOK their own food. We sit on our butts and order take out.

Cooking most of one's own meals is somehow regarded as quaint by many in our society.

The delivery guys on the bicycles are the ones getting all the exercise.

Feb. 21 2008 11:43 AM
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chestine from NY

I don't eat meat, I do need animal fats, I reversed my bone with drinking cultured dairy - and all raw - I think there's a huge difference between raw and processed milk. Plus it's really yummy.

Feb. 21 2008 11:41 AM
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Chris O from New York

This does not seem to be about instinct. I wonder what the role of marketing is in the overweigh epidemic in the US.

Europeans are similarly wealthy with a somewhat comparable socio-economic status, but they are not nearly as fat, generally speaking. How come?

Feb. 21 2008 11:36 AM
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Chris O from New York

I don't like Japanese food that much. I will eat if but I don't think that is a required element of good health even though some people may prefer that.

Feb. 21 2008 11:35 AM
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John

This sounds very similar to the points Daniel Quinn makes in Ishmael and his other books. I wonder if she's read him.

Feb. 21 2008 11:35 AM
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Bentley from Manhattan

Chestine - why do you think that we need dairy? Personally - not Weston Price - but from your own words, please tell me why you think we need it. I have read numerous reports on why dairy is harmful to us and completely unneccesary, and I have also read Weston Price.

Feb. 21 2008 11:34 AM
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Kevin from Brooklyn

Two things:

1. Get out of your car and WALK. BIKE. DO SOMETHING.
2. Eat proper Japanese food (washoku). It's a great blend of what you actually need, and if you keep the proportions right, you won't be hungry.

That's it.

Feb. 21 2008 11:33 AM
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chestine from NY

to make teh midset switch, find out what is really nutritious and eat it - you won't eat empty calories, it will evolve naturally - it takes time - ditch the body image business - it is fascist with your body to focus like that.

Feb. 21 2008 11:32 AM
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chestine from NY

According to Weston Price they ate 10 times more fat soluble vitamins than we do

Feb. 21 2008 11:29 AM
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chestine from NY

Ask her what she thinks of the work of Weston Price? thanks

Feb. 21 2008 11:27 AM
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ad from SOMERSET CNTY NJ

(posted this on previous segment but it is quite relevant here)

Just got a recorded call from my kid's grammar school principal. "Until you hear differently, please replace hot dogs on the lunch menu with mozzarella sticks." Dominoes pizza is tomorrow's "SPECIAL FRIDAY" lunch.

Meanwhile at least half the kids at this school -- made up of at least 40% Spanish Speaking immigrants and near 50% government-subsidized meals -- appear to be at least 20% "overweight" ie trouble running normally etc.

Feb. 21 2008 11:24 AM
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