Video/Podcast/Post Summary
We’re speaking with Tamar Haspel, who is one of my favorite, no-BS thinkers about food, nutrition, and health.
Tamar is the author of To Boldly Grow (a hilarious, info-packed book I loved) and a food, nutrition, and health columnist for The Washington Post.
Tamar is also a serial killer of food myths and misconceptions—a sharp thinker who understands the science of what we eat and can put it in the context of everyday life.
Watch the video above to view our conversation, or download the podcast to listen.
Tamar and I covered:
The truth about eggs and why expensive, locally-farmed eggs taste the same as cheap, mass-produced ones.
Understanding obesity and the food environment
The realities of being overweight (particularly as a woman)
Why we know less about nutrition than we think, and how that should guide our food choices. Think: Hedge your bets.
The truth about organic food—myths and its costs and benefits.
Diet soda and whether it’s unhealthy.
How to navigate the modern food environment.
Whether exercise is good for weight loss.
Whether government subsidies around corn and soy led to the rise in obesity.
Food dyes and the new administration’s push to remove them. Will it matter?
Is red meat good or bad for you?
Are plant-based meats a viable alternative to real meat? What are their health effects?
The benefits of lentils and Tamar’s epic recipe to help you eat more lentils (which, she argues, are a food we should all be eating).
Ozempic and Tamar’s thoughts on it.
Tamar’s journey raising and growing her own food, and what she learned from it.
A few quick words on hunting.
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Relevant links
Buy Tamar’s book here. Again, I highly recommend it. It’s so funny, informative, and well written.
A Two Percent article on the truth about exercise and weight loss.
Links to a few of Tamar’s WaPo columns that are relevant to this convo:
Have fun, don’t die, eat well.
-Michael
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