Ep 170: Eat Smarter with Shawn Stevenson
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Ep 170: Eat Smarter with Shawn Stevenson
Episode 170: Show Notes
Humans have a complicated relationship with food. What was once a harmonious exchange of hard work (hunting and gathering), nutrition, and social interaction has now become a whirlwind of fast food and eating in isolation.
But as today’s guest, Shawn Stevenson explains in his new book, Eat Smarter Family Cookbook, eating healthy can be simpler and way more fun than you’ve ever imagined! Shawn is a renowned author, speaker, and podcast host with a background in science and biology, and we learn about how food saved his life.
We discuss the polarities in America regarding food and healthy eating, how some pharmaceutical companies get away with murder, the ins and outs of bioavailable foods, and how to create your own healthy food environments (blue zones) at home.
To wrap up this intriguing conversation with one of the most well-read health experts we’ve ever had the pleasure of hosting on this show, Shawn explains where you can start when thinking about making healthier food choices, which food contagions to avoid and their healthier alternatives, and how the Eat Smarter Family Cookbook is different from and a cut above all the rest!
Key Points From This Episode:
Welcoming Shawn Stevenson back to the show as he recaps his extraordinary background.
The most chronically ill society in human history, and pocket-communities of radiant health.
What Shawn means when he states that food saved his life.
Why some pharmaceutical companies (literally) get away with murder.
Bioavailable foods: what they are and where to find them.
How to create your own blue zone for optimized health, longevity, and connection-building.
Social eating for a longer life, and what Shawn has learned from having family mealtimes.
Where to start if you and your loved ones are looking to improve your choices around food.
Food contagions to protect your family from, with healthier alternatives.
One of a kind: How Shawn’s cookbook is different from all the rest.
Quotes:
“The primary thing is really just being able to navigate how to be healthy in a society that is largely unwell.” — @ShawnModel [0:07:25]
“We can create a community of health within our own households, because this conversation is about culture and how our environment affects our choices and our health outcomes.” — @ShawnModel [0:15:59]
“We can't make people change. That creates so much frustration in our lives, trying to get people to change. What we can do, first and foremost, is change ourselves.” — @ShawnModel [0:16:20]
“Here in this universe, we have causality. Nothing just happens; there's a cause and effect. We might not understand the cause, but it's there nevertheless.” — @ShawnModel [0:19:08]
“Everything changed when I just decided to take responsibility for my health [and] stop outsourcing my potential to others.” — @ShawnModel [0:26:24]
“There are very powerful entities, corporations that are profiting mightily; we're talking about to the tunes of billions, trillions of dollars from our collective sickness. It requires sickness in order for the business structure to be successful, and that's twisted.” — @ShawnModel [0:45:14]
“We evolved with food — it was about community. It involved community. We gathered food together, we hunted together, we prepared the food together, we ate together. This was all community integration. That experience is now on the endangered species list.” — @ShawnModel [0:46:20]
Longer Quotes
“We are big-time foodies. And so for me, I'm even surprised that it took all this time to create this [cookbook], but it was just like - there's a great quote from Churchill that says, “There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” I just feel like life was qualifying my family for this moment. I think that we can make a big difference.” — @ShawnModel [1:04:38]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
‘Ep 27: Model Health with Shawn Stevenson’
‘TMHS 704: Use These 7 Tips For More Inner Peace & Outer Success! – With Light Watkins’
‘Ascorbic Acid Supplements and Kidney Stone Incidence Among Men: A Prospective Study’
‘Tropical fruit camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia) has anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory properties’
‘Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review’