Chris van Tulleken on how our ultra-processed diet is killing us
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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The Importance of Comfort Food
Evidence shows that this is food associated with anxiety and depression, possibly with neuroinflammation. I would suspect that there's no reason to think it would improve performance. When it comes to comfort, my question is always, are you really comforted by this food? Food often like the cigarettes, like the alcohol, like the gambling, like all the other things in our lives that we lean on it. It feels like the solution and yet it's incredibly short term, but it is sold to us as the solution. So asking how much you are enjoying that particular, crunchy thing or that inflammable tube of tobacco, inquiring of it, what it means is quite important. Our world
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